RESEARCH
My research encompasses the areas of:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Science and Psychology
- Vision Science - Cognitive Neuroscience
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Design Science (computing, cognition)
Basic Topics of Interest
- Hybrid AI
- Neurosymbolic integration of reasoning and learning
- Commonsense reasoning - Spatial reasoning
- Semantics, data engineering and analysis
- Multimodal perception and interaction
- Integration of (low-level) computer vision and (high-level) visual commonsense
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Spatial cognition and computation
- Visual perception
- Computational cognitive systems/modelling
- Cognitive interaction systems
- Design cognition and computation.
/ APPLICATIONS /
A key motivation of our basic research efforts is to demonstrate the value and application of Hybrid-AI Technology in contexts where (human-centric) trustworthy design and engineering, regulatory/ethico-legal compliance, and human-system collaborative problem-solving are crucial. Presently, the following are in focus:
(1) Responsible neurocognitive analytics in experimental and clinical settings; here, we pursue an `AI as a tool' paradigm in (data-centric) cognitive psychology & neuroscience with an emerging orientation towards translational purposes;
(2) Autonomous systems (e.g., high-level visuospatial interpretation, cognitive interaction and control in autonomous vehicles, cognitive robotics);
(3) Architecture and built environment design (e.g., human-environment behaviour);
(4) Communications and media design technologies (e.g., involving multimodal perception and synthesis, visuo-auditory digital media design).
A key motivation of our basic research efforts is to demonstrate the value and application of Hybrid-AI Technology in contexts where (human-centric) trustworthy design and engineering, regulatory/ethico-legal compliance, and human-system collaborative problem-solving are crucial. Presently, the following are in focus:
(1) Responsible neurocognitive analytics in experimental and clinical settings; here, we pursue an `AI as a tool' paradigm in (data-centric) cognitive psychology & neuroscience with an emerging orientation towards translational purposes;
(2) Autonomous systems (e.g., high-level visuospatial interpretation, cognitive interaction and control in autonomous vehicles, cognitive robotics);
(3) Architecture and built environment design (e.g., human-environment behaviour);
(4) Communications and media design technologies (e.g., involving multimodal perception and synthesis, visuo-auditory digital media design).
CoDesign Lab EU / Artificial and Human Intelligence
Artificial and Human Intelligence / Formal and Cognitive Foundations for Human-Centred Computing (www)
The CoDesign Lab EU addresses the synergy of artificial and human intelligence through a combination of analytical & empirical research from the viewpoints of AI/ML, Visual and Spatial Cognition, Cognitive Science and Psychology, Interaction Studies, and Design Science:
The CoDesign Lab EU addresses the synergy of artificial and human intelligence through a combination of analytical & empirical research from the viewpoints of AI/ML, Visual and Spatial Cognition, Cognitive Science and Psychology, Interaction Studies, and Design Science:
Cognitive Vision and Perception
DesignSpace
Spatial Reasoning
/ INDUSTRY /
In some cases, basic research methods developed have been driven by / applied in collaboration with industry partners; main industry transfers are in areas of: cognitive vision & perception systems (e.g., for autonomous vehicles), AI-driven large-scale public space design (e.g., hospital and airport design), creative visuo-auditory digital media design & user experience synthesis (e.g., film, animation, immersive content synthesis).
- Cognitive Vision, research and consultation driven by integration of AI and Vision towards the development of computational visuospatial intelligence capabilities for semantic interpretation of (dynamic) multimodal stimuli (e.g, encompassing image, video, audio, physiological signals) / https://www.codesign-lab.org/cognitive-vision/
DesignSpace
- DesignSpace, research and consultation focussing on the development of AI-driven cognitive assistive technologies, and professional training aimed at people-centred spatial thinking and architecture design. / www.design-space.org
Spatial Reasoning
- Spatial Reasoning, developing basic methods for mixed geometric and qualitative visuospatial representation and reasoning, with a particular emphasis on declarative spatial reasoning techniques rooted in state of the art knowledge representation and reasoning methods. / www
/ INDUSTRY /
In some cases, basic research methods developed have been driven by / applied in collaboration with industry partners; main industry transfers are in areas of: cognitive vision & perception systems (e.g., for autonomous vehicles), AI-driven large-scale public space design (e.g., hospital and airport design), creative visuo-auditory digital media design & user experience synthesis (e.g., film, animation, immersive content synthesis).
Current and Past Research Supervisions
- Fong Yuan Lim (PhD Candidate)
- Julius Monsen (PhD Candidate)
- Vipul Nair (PhD Candidate)
- Jakob Suchan (PhD Candidate)
- Vasiliki Kondyli (PhD Candidate)
- Sahar Alknani (DAAD PhD Candidate)
- Carl Schultz (Research Associate, DesignSpace Group)
- Przemyslaw Walega (DAAD PhD candidate / Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
- Maciej Przybylski (DAAD PhD candidate / Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
- Giulia Mastrodonato (Guest PhD; Technical University of Bari, Italy)
- Daniel Michler (Research Intern; working on DFG-NSF collaboration grant / project)
- Vinay Chandragiri (Google Summer of Code 2018)
- Devendra Yadav (Google Summer of Code 2018)
- Arpit Kathuria (Google Summer of Code 2018)
- Gyanesh Malhotra (Google Summer of Code 2018)
- Sumit Vohra (Google Summer of Code 2018)
- Sri Krishna (Google Summer of Code 2017)
- Omar Moussa (University of Bremen, DE / ongoing thesis)
- Johanna Arens (University of Bremen, DE)
- Thomas Hudkovic (University of Bremen, DE)
- Tobias Torkler (Research student; University of Bremen)
- Rocio Varela (Research student; University of Bremen)
- Samantha Bhuiyan (Intern; Cal Poly, USA)
- Deepak Jha (guest student; University of Rostock, Germany)
- Madhura Dilip Thosar (Research intern; Bonn Rhein Sieg, Germany)
- Vijayanta Jain (Texas Tech University, US / Intern)
- Vyom Kelkar (Research intern; DAAD)
- Liana Mikaelyan (Research intern; DAAD)
- John Sutton (Intern; Cal Poly, USA)
- Saurabh Goyal (Intern: Amity University, India)
- Harshita Jhavar (Intern: MANIT India)
- Noah Dietz (Intern; Cal Poly, USA)
- Ali Mirza (Intern; University of Alberta, Canada)
- Minqian Huang (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Justin watson (Intern; University of Alberta, Canada)
- Robert Klikach (Intern; University of Alberta, Canada)
- Brian Tietzen (Thesis; University of Bremen)
- Christoph Piepka (Thesis; University of Bremen)
- Marc Gerken (Thesis; University of Bremen)
- Charishma Reddy (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Pardis Alizadeh (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Minqian Huang (University of Bremen, Germany)
- AshishVaishya (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Sabbir Ahmad (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Shanghao Dong (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Kamran Usman (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Madiha Mahmoud (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Geetha Soragavi (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Katherine Huang (University of Toronto, USA)
- Sergio Tassoni (University of L‘Aquila, Italy)
- Gregory Flanagan (California State Polytechnic, USA)
- Giulio Carducci (University of L`Aquila, Italy)
- Richard Addo (Dartmouth College, USA)
- Ali Mirza (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Justin Watson (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Robert Klikach (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Norman Herchen (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Timur Khamrakulov (Tajik Technical University, Tajikistan)
- Arthita Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur, India)
- John Paul Hayes (California State Polytechnic, USA)
- Arpit Srivastava (NIT Bhopal, India)
- Nikhil Simha (IIT Bombay, India)
- Alexandru Ichim (Jacobs University, DE)
- Maitreyee Saikia (Tezpur University, India)
- Sanchit Sood (IIT Bombay, India)
- Hemant Agrawal (IIT Rourkee, India)
- Sury Prakash Soni (La Trobe University, Australia)