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

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

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Projects

Predictive Traffic Light Control with LiDAR-Based Intent Prediction

Part of the Smart Green City Konstanz initiative. The project investigates privacy-preserving LiDAR sensing to anticipate the movements of pedestrians and cyclists at …

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AITEE: Agentic Socratic Tutoring for Electrical Engineering

An agentic tutoring system for electrical engineering that accepts hand-drawn and digital circuits as input. It combines circuit recognition, structure-aware retrieval based on …

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Connect Four Robot: Reinforcement Learning on Embedded Hardware

A physical demonstrator for reinforcement learning. DQN, Monte Carlo Tree Search and AlphaZero agents play Connect Four in real time on a Raspberry Pi 4 and move the pieces with a …

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Safety Assistance Systems for Bicycles

Camera- and IMU-based safety functions for e-bikes, running on compact embedded hardware. Work so far covers real-time time-to-collision estimation with a single camera, …

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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