2022 NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship; 2020 Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; First Place Four Times in the North American SAE AutoDrive Challenge (2018-2021); 2019 Canada CIFAR AI Chair; 2019 RSS Early Career Spotlight Award; 2018 Canada Research Chair (Tier 2); 2017 MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35; 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship; 2017 Ministry of Research, Innovation & Science Early Researcher Award; 2015 Connaught New Researcher Award; 2014 IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Video Clip Contest Finalist; 2014 Best Robotics Paper Award at the Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV); 2013 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize.
Research Experience
Professor at the Technical University of Munich since 2022; previously Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Faculty Member at the Vector Institute for AI; Principal Investigator of the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network.
Education
Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2013, awarded the ETH Medal and Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award; M.Sc. in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart in 2008; M.Sc. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007.
Background
Research Interests: Robotics, Control Theory, Machine Learning, Dynamic Systems, Quadrotors, Self-Driving Vehicles. Professional Field: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Brief Introduction: Angela Schoellig is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich, a member of the Board of Directors at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), and serves as the Coordinator of the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG).