E-mail: oliver.brock(at)tu-berlin.de
Room: MAR 5.033
Telephone: +49.30.314-73110
Office hours: Friday 10-12, please make an appointment
My research is concerned with the algorithmic foundations required to enable robotic agents to autonomously perform complex tasks in dynamic and unstructured environments. Beyond the scope of robotics, I apply these algorithmic foundations to problems in structural molecular biology, such as protein structure prediction, protein folding, and protein docking.
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Professional and Academic Experience | |
since 2009 | Alexander von Humboldt Professor, TU Berlin |
2008-2009 | Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
2002-2008 | Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
2001-2002 | Research Associate and Scientific Consultant, Stanford University |
1999-2001 | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, AllAdvantage.com |
2000 | Lecturer and Research Scientist, Rice University |
Education | |
2000 | Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University |
1994 | Master of Science, Computer Science, Stanford University |
1993 | Diplom, Computer Science, TU Berlin |
Awards and Nominations | |
2016 | Best Systems Paper Award, RSS |
2015 | First Place, Amazon Picking Challenge |
2014 | Third Place, Protein Structure Prediction, CASP 11 |
2014 | Second Place, Contact Prediction, mid- and long-range contacts, CASP 11 |
2014 | Best Student Paper Award (with Raphael Deimel), RSS |
2012 | Best Poster Award, CASP 10 |
2011 | IEEE Robotics and Automation Most Active Technical Committee Award, Technical Committee on Mobile Manipulation |
2009 | Research Prize Alexander von Humboldt Professorship |
2006 | NSF CAREER Award |
Professinal Memberships | |
since 2002 | IEEE Senior Member |
since 2002 | IEEE Robotics and Automation Society |
since 2002 | Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) |
since 2006 | Protein Society |
Editorial Activities | |
since 2011 | Autonomous Robots |
since 2010 | The Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) |
since 2010 | International Journal of Robotics and Research |
2007-2009 | IEEE Transactions on Robotics |
since 2007 | Foundations and Trends in Robotics |
Professional Service | |
since 2016 | Extended Academic Senate, TU Berlin |
2014-2016 | Member IPODI Scholarschip Selection Committee, TU Berlin |
since 2014 | Track Director, study program Cognitive Systems |
2013-2015 | Department Chair, Department of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics, TU Berlin |
since 2011 | Track Director, study program Science of Intelligence |