Prof. Dr Paul G. Plöger

Research Interests

• Recurrent Neural Networks, especially Echo State Networks (ESNs)
• Service Robots 
• Fault Identification, Diagnosis and Removal for autonomous systems (FDD)
• Automated short answer grading (ASAG)

1976 - 1984
Diploma degree in Mathematics and Physics, University of Dortmund

1979 - 1980
Masters course Mathematics, Physics, UCB Berkley, scholarship of Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e. V.

1984 - 1985
Research assistant University of Dortmund, Department of Mathematics

1985-2010
Junior scientist at GMD / senior at Fraunhofer IAIS

1998
first participation in RoboCup 98, Paris

2000
Dissertation at Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus: Timing Estimation and Optimization in Embedded System Design

2003
Assistant Professor at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University

2004
Full Professor Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University Autonomous Systems

2005-2009
BMBF Project DESIRE, lead in work package Architecture

2006-2009
EU FP6 Project XPERO, lead in work package software engineering and development framework

2011-2012
BMBF Project "German Russian Robotics Initiative" (GRRI)

2014-2015
BMWI Project "Accelerating the Innovation Cycle in Service Robotics" (AICISS)

Advised Students:

Past:

• Abheek Kumar Bose
• Alex Juarez
• Ali Uygar Kuecuekemre
• Anastassia Kuestenmacher
• Arpita Chakraborty
• Azamat Shakhimardanov
• Beatriz Leon
• Benjamin Maus
• Christian Rempis
• Daniel Paurat
• David Droeschel
• David Froehlich
• Dirk Holz
• Deyuan Qiu
• Dimitri Unrau
• Emi Mathews
• Farid Gulmammadov
• Heinstein Fotso Kamgne
• Iman Awaad
• Jan Paulus
• Jingang Kang
• Jimesh Thomas
• Kai Pervoelz
• Manuel Fabritius
• Marco Rhein
• Mike Reckhaus
• Noury Khayat
• Peter Schoell
• Peter Wirth
• Phillipp Hessenbruch
• Rejin Narayanan
• Robert Mueller
• Ronny Hartanto
• Sebastian Blumenthal
• Shahzad Cheema
• Stefan Christen
• Steffen Rost
• Sven Olufs
• Sven Teichmann
• Timur Saitov
• Thomas Breuer
• Umer Kayani
• Viatcheslav Tretyakov
• Vishal Patel
• Xiaochuan Jiang
• Xu Zhimin
• Yun Zheng