Select News and Announcements

  • Invited Talk @  Cener for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP)
    On:
    "Title TBA" / University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg / Sweden - April 2024 / www
  • 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 / www
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Celebrating Semantics @ Montreal. Berlin. Prague. Riga. RAS. / 2021
    www
  • Invited Talk @ Future Forum on Artificial Intelligence / 2021
    DNB NewTechLab Norway / www
  • 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
  • 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 @ ZiF Bielefeld / Center for Interdisciplinary research (ZiF) 2018 / 2020
    Interdisciplinary Research Project on:
    Multimodal Rhetoric in Online Media Communications). www / ZiF
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. www
  • 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 Osbanrück. www
  • Invited Talk @ Space Syntax Ltd. 2015
    Workshop on Extended Network-Based Description for BIM and Smart Cities, 2015. www
  • 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
  • Invited Talk @ DAAD Annual Meeting 2013, Berlin.
    Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Freie Universität Berlin 2013.
  • DW-World TV Feature
    Deutsche Welle (DW-World) TV program `Today Tomorrow' in the segment, Brilliant Minds (2012). www
  • 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 Insittute (SRI). www
  • HIGHLIGHTS Magazine Feature — University of Bremen, 2011. www