RESEARCH

My research encompasses the areas of:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Design Science (computing, cognition)

Detailed research statement: www
Key topics of interest are:

  • spatial cognition and computation
  • knowledge representation and reasoning
  • visual perception
  • design cognition and computation
  • cognitive interaction systems
  • multimodal interaction
  • computational cognitive vision
  • evidence-based studies of human behaviour
  • communications & media studies (moving image / visuo-auditory narrativity)
  • media design and technologies
  • architecture / built environment design
  • autonomous systems (e.g., self-driving vehicles)
Recent Publications have addressed:
  • Visual Perception, Changes Blindness
  • Visual and Spatial Representation and Reasoning
  • Reasoning about Moving Objects
  • Learning Visuo-Spatial Representations
  • Reasoning about Space and Change
  • Commonsense Reasoning — Non-Monotonic Reasoning
  • Declarative Explainability — Neurosymbolism
  • Qualitative Reasoning
  • Declarative programming (e.g., with Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming)
  • Vision Science and Art (focussing on moving images, narrative media such as Film)
  • Semantic Question-Answering with Visual Imagery / Explainable Visual Sensemaking
  • Visual Perception — Eye-Tracking
  • Computational Models of Narrative
  • Cognitive Modelling of Visuo-Spatial Cognition
  • Cognitive Media Studies (e.g., focussing on narrative media, film)
  • Semantic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) — Geospatial Dynamics
  • Wayfinding — large-scale space (e.g., hospitals, airports, museums, shopping malls)
CoDesign Lab EU / Cognition. AI. Interaction. Design.

  • CoDesign Lab EU / codesign-lab.org
  • Priority areas: Artificial Intelligence / Spatial Cognition and Computation / Cognitive Science and Psychology / Human-Computer Interaction / Design Science
Select long-range research projects and ongoing activities may be consulted here:

Research Team. Current and Past Students.

  • 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)