Mehul Bhatt

Professor

> School of Science and Technology, Örebro University, Sweden / www

Visiting Professor (SSF Sabbatical / 2025)

> Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany / www

CoDesign Lab EU

Artificial and Human Intelligence
codesign-lab.org

Mehul Bhatt

Research Profile

Artificial and Human Intelligence / Human-Centred AI. Cognitive Technologies.

Basic research focusses on the cognitive, formal, and computational foundations of human-centred (responsible) AI technologies. I pursue and steer basic research focussing on:

  • Hybrid AI methods aimed at integration of Machine Reasoning and Learning
  • Computational Cognitive Vision
  • Spatial Cognition and Computation
  • Visual Perception
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Design Computing & Cognition.

My research particularly emphasises the study of human-behaviour (embodied multimodal interaction) in naturalistic settings as a principal means of AI technology driven human-centred cognitive assistance in planning, decision-making, design situations requiring an interplay of commonsense, creative, and specialist visuospatial thinking.

Research Profile > www

Previously

previously

Professor within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bremen, and Stiftungs Professor at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI Bremen) in Germany (Human-Centred Cognitive Assistance Lab). Before that, I was member of the Cognitive Systems group, first as a DAAD Scholar, and subsequently during 2008–2010 as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. During 2011–2014, I have also been an elected member and principal investigator in the Spatial Cognition Center (Transregio SFB/TR 8 / www), which ran as a joint initiative between the Universities of Bremen and Freiburg during 2003–2014. During 2017–2021, I was a PI within SFB 1320: EASE at the University of Bremen.

previous to previously

From 2002–2007, based at the Department of Computer Science at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) where I completed a Masters in Information Technology (2004), and a PhD in Computer Science (2008). Till 2001, underwent basic schooling completing a Bachelor of Economics at the Narsee Monjee College of Economics (Mumbai, India).