Christopher Knievel

Christopher Knievel

Professor for Autonomous Systems

Hochschule Konstanz Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung

Biography

Christopher Knievel received the Dipl.-Ing. and the Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 2009 and 2014, respectively.

From January 2014 to February 2021, he has been with Continental AG, Lindau a. Bodensee, Germany, where he was a team leader working in the area of advanced driver assistance systems. Since March 2021, he is a Professor for autonomous systems at the HTWG Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences.

Dr. Knievel received the Förderpreis der Technischen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 2014 for his dissertation in 2014.

His main research interests include situation assessment, computational intelligence as well as machine learning applied for (mobile) autonomous systems.

Education

Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

2014-01-01
2014-12-31

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

2009-01-01
2009-12-31

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

News
New Publication: The AITEE Framework for Socratic Tutoring featured image

New Publication: The AITEE Framework for Socratic Tutoring

Our new paper on agentic Socratic tutoring in electrical engineering has been published in IEEE Access.

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Projects
Prädiktive KI-Ampelschaltung featured image

Prädiktive KI-Ampelschaltung

Das Projekt „Prädiktive KI-Ampelschaltung“ zielt darauf ab, die Interaktion zwischen Fußgängern, Radfahrern und Autofahrern an Kreuzungen zu optimieren, indem zukünftige Wege und …

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AI Elektronik Tutor

Das Projekt AI Elektronik Tutor zielt darauf ab, einen intelligenten Chatbot-Tutor für das Fachgebiet Elektrotechnik zu entwickeln. Der Fokus liegt darauf, Studierenden der …

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4-Gewinnt Roboter

In diesem Masterprojekt im Studiengang EIM haben die Studenten Alexander Bernhardt, Christian Bernhardt, Raphael Carli und Manuel Reichelt einen Reinforcement Learning Agenten …

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Assistance systems for bicycles

With the increasing spread of e-bikes, the number of accidents is also rising. An increase of more than 50% compared to last year, to over 2900 accidents, can be observed [BR24]. …

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Recent Publications

Teaching

Lectures & Open Theses

Experience

HTWG Konstanz - IAF

Member of the Institute for Applied Research

HTWG Konstanz - IAF

HTWG Konstanz

Professor for Autonomous Systems

HTWG Konstanz

Responsibilities include:

  • Lectures in Electrical Engineering in bachelor and masters degree
  • Research in the area of Autonomous Systems
Continental AG

Teamlead Function Owner Longitudinal Crusing Functions

Continental AG

Responsibilities include:

  • Functional lead for the development of the next generation of adaptive cruise control
  • Function owner of ACC generation 5

Education

Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Contact

Email: Christopher.Knievel(at)htwg-konstanz.de
Phone: +49 (0)7531 206-267

Address:
Hochschule Konstanz Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung
Alfred-Wachtel-Straße 8
D-78462 Konstanz