About me

Since August 2025, I am a research associate at the Chair of Software and Systems Engineering (Prof. Dr. Pretschner). My main research focuses on scenario-based testing of automated and autonomous driving systems.

Prior to joining the program, I completed my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Informatics at TUM. During my Master's degree, I worked as a Data Engineer at the BMW Group in the Connected Vehicle Platforms department.

 

Thesis Supervision

If you are interested in writing a thesis related to my research interests, please contact me by email, including your CV, transcript of records, and a brief statement of your motivation. 

Open Topics

Title	Type
Scalable Clustering of Traffic Scenarios Without a Mental Model	Bachelor's/Master's Thesis (with S. Speth)

Publications

Kolb, Nicola, Florian Huber, and Alexander Pretschner. “Automatically Improving Scenario Descriptions Derived From Recorded Traffic” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (accepted for publication).

Kolb, Nicola, Claudius Jordan, Florian Huber, and Alexander Pretschner. “Automatic Evaluation of Automatically Derived Semantic Scenario Instance Descriptions” 2022 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC). IEEE, 2022.

 

Presentations

Title	Event	Date
Anomaly Detection in the Vehicle-to-Cloud Communication of Connected Vehicles	BMW Summer School 2025	July 2025

 

Teaching

Semester	Title	Type
WS 2025/26	Advanced Topics of Software Engineering	Central Exercise