Researcher / lecturer at the Chemnitz University of Technology.
Education
Habilitation in Computer Science 2017
\rightarrow Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
Ph.D. in Computer Science 2006
\rightarrow Université Henri Poincaré Nancy-I, France.
Engineering degree in Signal Processing and Microelectronics 2002
\rightarrow École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec), Rennes, France.
Master of Science in Microelectronics 2002
\rightarrow Université Rennes-I, France.
Experience
Chemnitz University of Technology - Germany 2011 - now
\rightarrow Researcher / lecturer in the faculty of Computer science, AI lab of Fred Hamker.
- Research:
- Computational neuroscience: basal ganglia, dopamine, hippocampus.
- Neuroinformatics: neurosimulator ANNarchy
- Machine learning, reinforcement learning.
- Teaching:
- Neurocomputing / Machine Learning
- Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Computer Vision
- Introduction to AI.
- Erasmus+ departmental coordinator.
WWU University of Münster - Germany 2006 - 2011
\rightarrow Postdoc in the Institute of Psychology, lab of Markus Lappe, supervisor Fred Hamker.
- Research:
- Computational neuroscience: basal ganglia.
Inria Lorraine - France 2002 - 2006
\rightarrow PhD student in the Cortex team (LORIA Nancy), supervisors Frédéric Alexandre and Nicolas Rougier (now in Mnemosyne).
- Research:
- Computational neuroscience: basal ganglia, visual attention.
- Robotics.
- Teaching (at the University of Nancy-I):
- Computer architecture, Java, AI.
Skills
Programming languages: Python, C++, C, Julia
Machine learning frameworks: tensorflow, pytorch, scikit-learn
Parallel computing: OpenMP, MPI, CUDA
Third-party projects
\rightarrow Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architecture.
Partners: Radboud University, TU Chemnitz, CERTH, Sorbonne Université, Eodyne Systems, Univeryity of Sheffield, Robotnik Automation, University of Oxford, Uppsala University, tp21 GmbH.
Role: Research.
\rightarrow Erforschung von KI Methoden zur Entwicklung eines interaktiven Gesundheitsassistenten auf Basis von Human in the Loop Machine Learning.
Partners: Corant GmbH, TU Chemnitz.
Role: Design, co-supervision of Aida Farahani and Payam Atoofi.
\rightarrow Wissensbasierte Anomalieerkennung mittels Künstlicher Intelligenz in Kritischen Infrastrukturen.
Partners: TU Cottbus, TU Chemnitz, LEAG, RWE AG, STEAG GmbH, ASCORI GmbH, migosens GmbH, ZEDAS GmbH.
Role: Design, co-supervision of René Larisch.
\rightarrow Maschinelles Lernen zur Prognose von Prozessparametern und Bauteilqualität in der automobilen Karosserieproduktion.
Partners: Fraunhofer IWU Dresden, Scale GmbH, TU Chemnitz.
Role: Design, research, co-supervision of Aida Farahani and Payam Atoofi.
\rightarrow Auto-tuning for neural simulations on different parallel hardware.
Partners: TU Chemnitz (Hamker).
Role: Design, co-supervision of Helge Dinkelbach.
\rightarrow Sozial agierende, kognitive Systeme zur Feststellung von Hilfsbedürftigkeit.
Partners: TU Chemnitz.
Role: Principal Investigator
\rightarrow StayCentered - Methodenbasis eines Assistenzsystems für Centerlotsen - MACeLot.
Partners: TU Chemnitz.
Role: Research.
\rightarrow CrossWorlds: Kopplung virtueller und realer sozialer Welten
Partners: TU Chemnitz.
Role: Principal investigator.
\rightarrow The cognitive control of visual perception and action selection.
Partners: TU Chemnitz (Hamker).
Role: Research.
\rightarrow A systems approach to modeling the cognitive guidance of attention and object/category recognition.
Partners: TU Chemnitz (Hamker).
Role: Research (employed).
\rightarrow Biomimetic Multimodal Learning in a Mirror Neuron-based Robot.
Partners: Sunderland, Inria, Parma, Cambridge, Ulm.
Role: Research (employed).