Nico Hochgeschwender

Nico Hochgeschwender is Professor of Software Engineering of Cognitive Robots and Cognitive Systems at University of Bremen. Before, he was a Professor for Autonomous Systems at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS) in Sankt Augustin, Germany, where he founded the Institute of AI and Autonomous Systems. He worked in the avionics industry as a system engineer, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Luxembourg, and Research Group Leader at DLR. His research interests lie at the intersection of AI-enabled Robotics and Software Engineering, with a focus on ensuring dependability, transparency, and explainability of robotics and autonomous systems; benchmarking and performance evaluation of cognitive robots; and domain-specific modelling and languages for robotics. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Luxembourg and is currently PI of the EU-funded research project SOPRANO (Socially-Acceptable and Trustworthy Human-Robot Teaming for Agile Industries). In 2013, he co-founded the RoboCup@Work league as a scientific competition targeting industrial and work-related scenarios and ten years later, his team won the RoboCup@Work competition. He is a member of the GI, VDI, and IEEE and Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation. In 2023 he received the Ring of Honor of the VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure) in recognition of his achievement and scientific contributions in the field of Robotics and AI.