Nicola Kolb, M.Sc.
Technische Universität München
Informatik 4 - Lehrstuhl für Software & Systems Engineering (Prof. Pretschner)
Postadresse
Postal:
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München
- Tel.: +49 (89) 289 - 17334
- nicola.kolb(at)tum.de
About me
Since March 2021, I am a research associate at the Chair of Software and Systems Engineering (Prof. Dr. Pretschner). My main research focus lies on test ending criteria, test adequacy criteria and test case generation for testing automated and autonomous driving systems. In this context, I study the scenario-based testing approach.
Prior to joining the chair, I worked as an IT specialist at the BMW Group in the vehicle data collection department for three years after completing the Speed-Up bachelor scholarship program at the BMW Group during my bachelor studies.
Teaching
| Semester | Course |
| Winter 2021/2022 | From Sub-Systems to Systems of Systems – Developing Autonomous Driving Functions (in cooperation with fortiss) |
| Summer 2021 | Advanced Topics of Software Testing |
Thesis supervision
Open
I am currently looking for a student who would like to complete a guided research with me (start date: open)!
Get in touch if you are interested in guided research or in supervision for your master's or bachelor's thesis. Apart from that you can find open topics from our chair on our thesis openings page.
| Title | Type |
| Testing for Traffic Rule Violations of Autonomous Vehicle | Master Thesis / Guided Research |
| Maneuver Generation using Search-based Techiques | Guided Research/ Master Thesis |
| Benchmark for Autonomous Vehicle Testing | Guided Research/ Bachelor Thesis |
Ongoing/Assigned
| Title | Type |
| Data-driven derivation of logical scenarios in the intersection context | Master Thesis |
| Benchmark for Autonomous Vehicle Testing | Scientific supervision of students of the Vanderbilt University (with CJ) |
Done
| Title | Type |
| Automatic derivation of traffic scenario instance descriptions for testing automated and autonomous driving systems in the intersection context (with CJ) | Bachelor Thesis |
| Automatic derivation of traffic scenario instance descriptions for testing automated and autonomous driving systems in the highway context (with CJ) | Bachelor Thesis |
| Tamper-proof Inverse Transparency Logs with Intel SGX (with VZ) | Bachelor Thesis |
Presentations
| Title | Event | Date |
| Vollständigkeit von szenario-basierten Tests für autonome Fahrsysteme: Eine multidimensionale Herausforderung | SAFE.TECH 2022 TÜV SÜD | 10.05.2022 |
Publications
Kolb, Nicola, Claudius Jordan, Florian Huber, and Alexander Pretschner. "Comprehensive and Automatic Evaluation of Automatically Derived Semantic Scenario Instance Descriptions" 2022 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC). IEEE, 2022. (accepted)
Kolb, Nicola, Florian Hauer, and Alexander Pretschner. "Fitness Function Templates for Testing Automated and Autonomous Driving Systems in Intersection Scenarios." 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC). IEEE, 2021.