Newman’s work on autonomous vehicle technology has led him to author 200 papers and garner over 15,000 citations. In his doctoral dissertation at the
University of Sydney, Newman set out the fundamentals of the large-scale navigation problem
SLAM, which would later become one of the most cited papers in the field at over 3,000 citations. Newman worked as a Navigation Engineer at Sonardyne International, UK, in 1999 and 2000, where he wrote the navigation algorithms which underpinned operation of autonomous sub-sea vehicles dealing with the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In 2000, Newman left industry for
MIT, where he was a postdoctoral research scientist, working with Professor
John J. Leonard on large-scale field robotics both on land and in the ocean. In 2005, he was appointed to a University Lectureship in Information Engineering and elected a fellow of
New College Oxford where he was a Tutorial Fellow until 2012. He became Professor of Engineering Science at New College, in 2010, and BP Professor of Information Engineering and Fellow of Keble College in 2012. He founded the Oxford Robotics Institute in 2016 and served as director until 2022. == Honours, advisory roles and fellowships ==