Paul Newman (engineer)

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Paul Newman is a British engineer and academic, the BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.[1] He is head of the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group (MRG)[1] and CTO at Oxbotica.

Newman received an MEng in Engineering Science from Balliol College, Oxford in 1995, followed by a PhD in autonomous navigation from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia.[2]

In 2014, he co-founded Oxbotica with Ingmar Posner.[2]

Career and Research[]

Newman’s work on autonomous vehicle technology has led him to author 200 papers and garner over 15,000 citations.[2] In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Sydney, Paul set out the fundamentals of the large-scale navigation problem SLAM, which would later become one of the most cited papers in the field at over 3000 citations.[2]

Following his PhD, Newman worked as a Navigation Engineer at Sonardyne International, UK, in 1999 and 2000, where he wrote the navigation algorithms which underpinned operation of autonomous sub-sea vehicles dealing with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[3]

In 2003, Newman left industry for MIT, where he was a postdoctorate research scientist, working with Professor John J. Leonard on large-scale field robotics both on land and in the ocean.[2]

He became a Departmental Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in 2003,[2] and set up the Mobile Robotics Group, a sub-division of the Oxford Robotics Institute, where he developed partnerships with BAE Systems and Nissan.[4] In 2005, he was elected a fellow of New College Oxford where he was a Tutorial Fellow until 2012.[5]

In 2010, Newman was awarded an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship.[5] The flagship output was the “Robotcar”, which in 2013 became the first autonomous vehicle permitted on public roads in the UK.[4] In 2014, Newman leveraged the newly developed technology and, with the Robotcar team, co-founded Oxbotica.[6]

Advisory Roles and Fellowships[]

Newman currently serves on the UK Government’s Department for Transport Scientific Advisory Council.[2] Newman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the IEEE in 2014, both with citations for "outstanding contributions to robot navigation".[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Paul Newman - Homepage : Main - Home Page browse". Robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "Paul Newman – Oxford Robotics Institute". Ori.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  3. ^ Campbell, Peter (17 March 2017). "Oxbotica unlocks the potential of driverless cars". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "8 things about Oxford's driverless tech | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Paul Newman FREng — Keble College". www.keble.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  6. ^ Balch, Oliver (13 April 2017). "Driverless cars will make our roads safer, says Oxbotica co-founder". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
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