Guests
Guest Researchers

April Liu
Phd student at ICMAT (Madrid)
Languages: Chinese, English
Stay from 13.01.2020 to to31.05.2020
Ms. Liu’s research for doctoral thesis is about social robotics in the framework of Adversarial Risk Analysis.
Her main area of interest includes Optimization, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Statistics and Machine Learning.
Former Guests

Dr. Tom Giraud
Guest Lecturer, post-doc at LIMSI-CNRS
Languages: French, English
Stay from 1.10.2019 to 29.02.2020
Dr. Tom Giraud was offering a multimedia project on "Computer-Assisted Therapy of Autism Patients" with a volume of 12 SWS per week over a period of two months - as an elective module for the bachelor's program in Computer Science and the new program in Medical Information Sciences and as a compulsory module for the bachelor's program in Computer Science and Multimedia. He is also working on a cooperation with the Dominikus Ringeisen Werk.
In collaboration with the psychologist Prof. Jacqueline Nadel, one of the most famous autism researchers worldwide, Dr. Giraud has developed a tangile virtual environment for the therapy of autism patients. This environment enables autistic children to perform actions together with a virtual character. This environment was developed at our chair. Within the multimedia project the use of this tangile virtual environment can be investigated in a facility with autistic patients.
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PhD guest student from the University of Trento (Italy)
Currently PostDoc at the University of Twente Netherlands.

Prof. Dr. Leo Wanner
Guest Lecturer
Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Web: https://www.upf.edu/web/etic/entry/-/-/26645/409/leo-wanner
Prof. Wanner from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona was a guest of the chair in the winter semester 2014. He offered the course "Computer-based generation of natural language".
Prof. Wanner works in the field of computational linguistics.His research foci include automatic multilingual report generation, automatic summarization of written material and information extraction. He is furthermore interested in lexicology and lexicography, and there, in particular, in the recognition, representation and use of lexical idiosyncrasies by both native speakers and learners of a language.
Chiew Sean Tan Seng
Visiting doctoral student
Stay from 12.05.2014 to 18.07.2014
PhD guest student at the University of Hasselt, Belgium
Dr. Brigitte Krenn
Guest Lecturer
Researcher and lecturer at the Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence ÖFAI
Web: http://www.ofai.at/~brigitte.krenn/
Stay in winter term 2013/14
Dr. Brigitte Krenn is a researcher and lecturer at the Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI). In winter semester 13/14 she visited us as a guest lecturer at the University of Augsburg. She offered the internship Game Programming and Artificial Intelligence.
Brigitte Krenn is head of Unit of OFAI's Language and Interaction Technologies Group.
Brigitte Krenn's overall research interest lies in understanding and computationally modelling human communication and interaction capabilities. Her work centers around two pilars.
The one is core language technology combining deep linguistic analysis and shallow corpus-based approaches to text processing.
The other one focuses on multi-modal communicative interaction, including modelling virtual agent behaviours, multimodal dialogue, dialogue and memory, language understanding from the point of view of a situated cognizer, as well as assessing the implications of multimodal signals on the socio-emotional evaluation of the sender (speaker) by the receiver (hearer).
Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Martin
Guest Lecturer, Professor at LIMSI-CNRS
Web: https://perso.limsi.fr/wiki/doku.php/martin/accueil
Stay from 23.10.2012 to 22.11.2012
Professor Jean-Claude Martin is Professor at Université Paris Sud, France.
In the winter semester 2012 he gave a lecture on "Virtual Humans" and led the internship "Multimodal User Interfaces".

Prof. Dr. Franziska Klügl
Guest Lecturer
Professor at Örebro University, Danmark
Web: https://www.oru.se/english/employee/franziska_klugl
Stay in WS 2011/12
and SS 2012
After visiting Augsburg University for a couple of month in 2010/2011 in a collaboration project with the groups of Prof. Andre and Prof. Timpf (Geoinformatics), I'm back: From October 2011 to August 2012, I'm happy to work as a Guest Professor at the Institut für Informatik, University of Augsburg. Originally, I'm full professor in Information Technology at the Örebro University in Örebro, Sweden (>200km west of Stockholm). There, I'm heading the Research Team Multiagent Simulation at the Modeling and Simulation Research Center. On my home webpages, more information about my research and my publications can be found. In Örebro I'm teaching in the International Master's Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems as well as in the Bacholor Program on Computer Science for Simulation and Games.
During my time as a Guest Professor, I'm giving a number of courses at the University of Augsburg:
SS2012
Vorlesung: Einführung in die Künstliche Intelligenz (erste Vorlesung am 18.4., 14:00 in 1058/N)
Seminar: Geosimulation (Anmeldung über LectureReg, Vorbesprechung, 17.4., 17:30 in 1057/N)
Seminar: Naturanaloge Algorithmen und Multiagentensysteme mit Prof. Hähner (Anmeldung über Digicampus, Vorbesprechung 25.4. um 12:15 in 1057/N)
Praktikum: Multiagentensysteme (Anmeldung über LectureReg, Vorbesprechung, 16.4., 15:45 2026/N)
WS2011/2012
Vorlesung: Multiagentensysteme
Techniken der Verkehrssimulation
Together with Michael Wissner: Praktikum: Multimodale User Interfaces: Virtuelles Klassenzimmer
Together with Prof. Sabine Timpf (Geoinformatics), I'm organizing a "Methodenseminar" in Geoinformatics.
Emilie Brihi
Visiting student
Stay in summer 2011
A visiting second year student at McGill University, in Montréal
funded by a RISE Internship

Julia Sidorova
Visiting student from UPF Spain
Stay from 01.01.2009 to 31.03.2009 and from 23.06.2009 to 03.08.2009
A visiting student from group for voice and language, UPF, Spain, and collaborator on emotion recognition.