Invited Talk @ Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Sep 2026)
Visuospatial Anticipation in Embodied Interaction @ Workshop on Attention in AI and Logic, DTU Copenhagen, Denmark
Invited Talk @ CAIMed - Lower Saxony Center for AI & Causal Methods in Medicine (Mar 2026)
On: Responsible Neurocognitive Analytics @ CAIMed Meetup: Clinical decision support and its statistical evaluation: What, how, why?
Hanover Medical School - CRC Clinical Research Center Hanover (MHH), Germany
Invited Talk @ Faculty of Science (Neuro-Cognitive Modeling) (Mar 2026)
On: Neurosymbolic Visual Commonsense
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2025
Invited Panelist @ Translational Institute for Knowledge Axiomatization (TIKA 2025)
The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2025, Philadelphia / www
Framtidens Forskning: "Ansvarsfull AI som verktyg inom perceptionsforskning"/ www
Invited Plenary @ International Conference on the relation between Artificial Intelligence, Social Sciences, and Humanities
ZSEM - Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia, 2025 / www
Podcast @ ZSEM / A Conversation on AI, Social Sciences, and Humanities
ZSEM - Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia, 2025 / www
2024
Invited Talk @ International Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable AI (DAO-XAI 2024 @ ECAI 2024)
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain - October 2024 / www
Grant Approved @ Stiftelsens för Strategisk Forskning / Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) On: Neurocognitive Analytics of Active Vision in Ageing (2024–2025)
Invited Talk @ Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KRDB), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano On: Design Implications of Ethico-Legal Trustworthiness: A Case for Neurosymbolic Commonsense (in Autonomous Vehicles), July 3 2024 / www
Independent Documentary Feature: VARFÖR HAR VI INTE SJÄLVKÖRANDE BILAR ÄN? / www
Invited Talk @ Center for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) On: "Cognitive Vision: Towards Human-Centred Computational Visual Intelligence" / University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg / Sweden - April 2024 / www
2023
Keynote @ The Long Road Ahead International Workshop on Autonomous, Connected, and Smart Transportation (LORA Workshop) On: "Visual Commonsense for the Self-Driving Car: On Deep Neurosymbolic Semantics for Space and Motion" / University of New South Wales Canberra, Canberra / Australia - June 2023 / www
Invited Talk @ The Importance of Human Factors for Trusted Human-Robot Collaborations On: "What are the technical/engineering implications of achieving ethical-legal trustworthiness with autonomous vehicles?" / part of: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Gothenburg / Sweden - Dec 2023
Invited Tutorial @ The 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023) On: "Cognitive Vision" / Imperial College London, London / United Kingdom - June 2023 / www
Grant Approved @ Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council - Individual Project Grants On: Counterfactual Commonsense (2023–2026)
Grant Approved @ Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council - Doctoral School On: Multimodality and Intermediality (2023–2027)
2022
Keynote @ 10th Scandinavian Conference on System & Software Safety 2022 On: Visual Commonsense for the Self-Driving Car / Gothenburg, Sweden - Nov 22—23, 2022 / www
Keynote @ Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning, at IJCAI-ECAI 2022 On: “Visuospatial Commonsense - On Neurosymbolic Reasoning and Learning about Space and Motion” / Vienna, Austria, July 2022 / www
Invited Guest Lecture @ Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CNRS) On: Artificial Visual Intelligence / University of Plymouth, United Kingdom - Mar 16 2022 / www
Invited Fellow @ Pascal Institute, University of Paris-Saclay
Ephemeral Lab: Interdisciplinary Research Program on Urban Mobility II / “Spatial Cognition Atelier”, Paris, May 2022 / www
Media Coverage @ Radio Interview On: Strategies for the identification of Fake News (Strategien zum Erkennen von Fake News ) / Interviewer: Matthias Hennies - Deutschlandfunk Radio, Germany Sep 15 2022 / www
2021
Invited Guest Lecture @ Chalmers AI Research Center (CHAIR) On: Cognitive Vision and Perception / Dec 1 2021 - 10:00 - MB lecture hall, Hörsalsvägen 5, Gamla M-huset
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / www
Media Coverage: "Are self-driving cars smarter than a seven-month-old?" / The Economist - Sep 2021
Our research on autonomous vehicles / commonsense reasoning / explainability featured in The Economist / www
Invited Talk @ Future Forum on Artificial Intelligence / 2021
DNB NewTechLab Norway / www
2020
Invited Talk @ NEC Laboratories Europe / 2020
NEC Germany (Heidelberg), October 2020 / www
Invited Panelist @ Reasoning in GeoAI / 2020
Focussing on: Explainable AI within the Geographic Domain
“Reasoning in GeoAI: Crime, Env. Psychology & Commonsense Reasoning”
Center for Spatial Studies, UC Santa Barbara / www
Advisory Committee Invitation @ AIQT Foundation / 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technologies (AIQT), Nov 2020 / www
Grant Approved @ ZiF Bielefeld / Center for Interdisciplinary research (ZiF) 2018 / 2020
Interdisciplinary Research Project on:
Multimodal Rhetoric in Online Media Communications). www / ZiF
2019
Distinguished Paper Honourable Mention / IJCAI 2019 - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
“Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind:
An Answer Set Programming Based Online Abduction Framework for Visual Sensemaking in Autonomous Driving.” — www
Grant Approved: EU COST Action / Multi3Generation
Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation (CA18231) 2019–2023 — www
Invited Talk @ Social and Artificial Intelligence for User-Friendly Robots (SoAIR 2019)
IEEE-RAS Spring School, Shonan Village Center, Japan— www
Invited Talk / Cognitive and Interactive Robots
In conjunction with IEEE RoMAN 2019: International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, New Delhi, India
2018
Keynote @ The Eye, The Brain, and The Auto 2018
8th World Research Congress on Vision and Driving. www
Focusing on the Impact of Disruptive Autonomous Vehicle Technology on Health and Wellness
Keynote @ QR 2018
31st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning
Co-located at:IJCAI-ECAI-18: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018. www
2017
Plenary Talk @ ICMC 2017
at the International Conference on Multimodal Communication:
Developing New Theories and Methods (ICMC 2017). www
Grant Approved @ DFG CRC EASE
Everyday Activity Science and Engineering
1st Phase (lasting 4 years) approved by German Research Foundation — DFG / commencement 2017. www
2015
Distinguished Paper Award / LPNMR 2015 - Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning
“ASPMT(QS): Non-Monotonic Spatial Reasoning with Answer Set Programming Modulo Theories” — www
Keynote @ Tobii Pro Event
Eye Tracking Social 2015., Vienna, Austria.
Keynote @ EG-ICE 2015
European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE 2015). www
Invited Talk @ IROS 2015: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Workshop on Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment. www
Invited Talk @ Cognitive Science Institute / Institute für Kognitionswissenschaft (IKW) 2015
University of Osnabrück. www
Invited Talk @ Space Syntax Ltd. 2015
Workshop on Extended Network-Based Description for BIM and Smart Cities, 2015.
2014
Falling Walls Lab 2014 — Competition — 2nd Place:
“Breaking the Wall of Computer-Aided Architecture Design”. www
Invited Talk @ University of Münster
GI Forum, Institute for Geoinformatics. www
Impulse Magazine
Research featured in Impulse Research Magazine of the University of Bremen. (1/2014). www
Award Nomination — Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (HML) 2014
Nominated: University of Bremen candidate for the German Research Foundation (DFG) HML Preis 2014
2013
Invited Talk @ DAAD Annual Meeting 2013, Berlin.
Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Freie Universität Berlin 2013.
2012
DW-World TV Feature
Deutsche Welle (DW-World) TV program `Today Tomorrow' in the segment, Brilliant Minds (2012). www
2011
Best Paper Award / UDMS 2011 - 28th Urban Data Management Symposium
“Toward Accessing Spatial Structure from Building Information Models” — www
Invited Panelist @ German Center for Research and Innovation New York (GCRI) / 2011
Panel on: Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design
German Center for Research and Innovation New York (GCRI), German House, New York / www
Invited Talk @ Artificial Intelligence Centre, SRI (2011)
Stanford Research Institute (SRI). www
HIGHLIGHTS Magazine Feature — University of Bremen, 2011. www