The University of Western Australia
Robotics & Automation Lab

 Thomas Bräunl
  (pronunciation: "Broi-Nell")

Associate Professor, Dr. rer. nat. habil. The Univ. of Western Australia, Perth School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Centre of Intelligent Information Processing Systems Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia phone: +61 8 6488-1763, fax: +61 8 6488-1168 Director, CIIPS Director, Robotics & Automation Lab

 Conference Chairs/ Committees

 Journals

• International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Editorial Advisory Board Member
• International Journal of Simulation Modelling, Editorial Board Member
• IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, Member
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Technical Committee on Marine Robotics, Member

Australian Research Council

• ARC Expert of international standing

Conferences 2008

• Robot Vision , 18-20 Feb, Auckland, New Zealand
• IEEE International Conferences on Robotics, Automation & Mechatronics (RAM 2008), 3-6 June, Chengdu, China
• NTMS'2008 Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 5-7 Nov., Tangier, Morocco
• Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-08), 1-5 Dec, Auckland, New Zealand

Conferences 2009

• International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents - ICARA, 10-12 Feb, Wellington, New Zealand
• IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence - CIVI, 30 Mar- 2 Apr, Nashville, TN
• FIRA World Congress 2009, 25-27 Aug, Incheon, Korea
• International Conference on Social Robotics 2009, 25-27 Aug, Incheon, Korea
• 5. International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE), 25-27 Aug, Incheon, Korea

 Research Areas

• Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Embedded Systems (Hardware Design + Operating Systems)
• Simulation Systems
• Automotive Applications

 Publications

 Books Authored

	Embedded Robotics, Thomas Bräunl * English version: Springer-Verlag, 1st Edition 2003, 2nd Ed.2006, * Japanese version: Springer Tokyo 2006
	Parallel Image Processing, Bräunl with Feyrer, Rapf, Reinhardt, * English version: Springer-Verlag, 2001 * German version: Addison-Wesley 1995
	Parallel Programming, Thomas Bräunl * English version: Prentice-Hall, 1993 * German version: Vieweg-Verlag, 1993 * Russian version: Kiev, Ukraine, 1997
	Massiv parallele Programmierung mit dem Parallaxis-Modell, T. Bräunl * German version: Springer-Verlag, Informatik-Fachberichte, 1990

 Books Edited

	MASCOTS 2000 , Dujmovic, Bräunl, Ayani (Eds), IEEE Press, Eighth Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Simulation of Computer and Communication Systems, San Francisco CA, 2000
	Autonome Mobile Systeme 1997 , Levi, Bräunl, Oswald (Eds), Springer-Verlag, Informatik aktuell, Tagungsband des 13. AMS-Fachgespräches in Stuttgart, German/English, 1997
	Autonome Mobile Systeme 1994 , Levi, Bräunl (Eds), Springer-Verlag, Informatik aktuell, Tagungsband des 10. AMS-Fachgespräches in Stuttgart, German/English, 1994

• Selected papers
• Selected student theses
• Patents

 Teaching

• Current Time Table
• Ph.D. students
• Exchange students (from Germany and elsewhere)
• Assessment criteria

 Background

 1986 M.S. in Informatics (Computer Engineering), Univ. Kaiserslautern (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
 1987 M.S. in Computer Science, Univ. of Southern California, (Los Angeles, USA)
 1989 Ph.D. in Informatics (Computer Engineering), Univ. Stuttgart , (Stuttgart, Germany)
 1991 Founder and Director of Robotics Lab, Univ. Stuttgart, (Stuttgart, Germany)
 1994 Habilitation and Privatdozent in Computer Eng., Univ. Stuttgart, (Stuttgart, Germany)
 1995 Company Foundation JOKER Robotics
 1997 Associate Professor, The Univ. of Western Australia , (Perth, AUS)
 2001 Senior Researcher at DaimlerChrysler, (Stuttgart, Germany)
 2006 Visiting Professor at TU München (München, Germany)
 2007 Visiting Professor at Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, USA)