Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence in general
• Applications of AI
• Natural Language Processing and Understanding
• Human-Computer Interaction and Interfaces
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• Cognitive Systems

 

Current Projects

• PSP Classic : Let's talk 100 - a series of debates wrt AI (for more information see )
• PI : REMEDIS, National Research Fund (FNR), JUMP project funding (2022- 2024)
• Participating Researcher Deep Data Science for Digital History/D4H, National Research Fund (FNR), PRIDE (PI: Prof. Andreas Fickers, C2DH)
• Participating Researcher: BeCoS, PSP Flagship, National Research Fund (FNR) (PI: Elisabeth John, Scienteens Lab, LCSB, UL). (2022-)
• Participating Researcher, Collaboration 21/C21 - IPBG Industrial Fellowship program, National Research Fund (FNR) (PI: Prof Vincent Koenig). Cooperation with CISCOCISCO and Script Luxembourg (2021 - 2025).

 

Former projects

• PI : AI PhotoBooth. PSP Classic, National Resereach Fund (FNR) (01/2020- 12/2021).
• Participating Researcher, coPI: C21- IPBG Industrial Fellowship program, National Research Fund (FNR) (PI: Prof Vincent Koenig). Cooperation with CISCO and Script Luxembourg (2021 - 2025).
• Particpating Researcher: AI & Art Pavilion. Funded by National Research Fund (FNR), Esch2022, University of Luxembourg.
• PI, submitted, not retained for funding: D-PLERN, CORE, National Research Fund (FNR). With Prof. Thomas Vanhove and colleagues from Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, US.
• PI, submitted, not retained for funding: DETECT, Bridges, National Research Fund (FNR). With EastNets.
• PI, submitted, not retained for funding: Audacity project, University of Luxembourg. With Prof. Valérie Schafer, C2DH.

 

2020

• PI: Deephouse. Covid19 Funding Scheme, National Resereach Fund (FNR). 07/2020 -12/2020.
• PI, submitted, not retained for funding: VoicePrint, CORE, National Research Fund (FNR). With Prof. Rejko Krüger.

 

2018

• coPI: DHH - Digital History and Hermeneutics, PRIDE, National Research Fund (FNR). PI: Prof Andreas Fickers (2018-2022)
• coPI: STRIPS - A Semantic Search Toolbox for the Retrieve of Similar Patterns in Luxembourgish Documents (2018-2021;PI: Prof. Peter Gilles)
• Contributing to the Suffering and Pain project, lead by Dr. Smadar Bustan, Psychophysiology and Neurophysiology Laboratory, University of Luxembourg, and Prof Fernand Anton.

 

Before 2018

• ESCAPE (2012-15; Efficiency, Spreading of Crisis and Algorithmic Policy Evolution / coPI; Project Lead: Prof. Theoharry Grammatikos, European Investment Bank and Luxembourg School of Finance.
• ADAM (2005-07; Adaptive Associative Memories) / Project Lead
• TRIAS (2005-08; Trust and Reliability in Agent Systems; with Prof. Leon van der Torre, Dr. Emil Weydert) / Project Lead
• ICC (2006-09; Inventing Communities of Communication; with Dr. Patrice Caire) / Project Lead
• Evo-Business (2005-08; Evolutionary Computing and e-Business) / Project Lead by Prof. Pascal Bouvry.
• Intra (2004-07; Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks) / Project Lead by Prof. Ulrich Sorger + Prof. Massimo Malvetti.

 

Conference Organization

• Workshop "AI and Arts" (with Daniel Karpati (UL) and Thibauld Latour (LIST) and BattleRoyal Berlin and rethink Berlin) as part of Esch2022/European Capital City; 12 November 2021. University of Luxembourg.
• BNAIC/Benelearn 2021, 33rd Joint International Scientific BeNeLux Conference on AI - "AI in Action", 10-12 Noember 2021. PC Chair "AI and Arts". See the program here. University of Luxembourg.
• 7th Lecture Series AI4Health. See the program here. 27 January - 24 November 2021. Organisation: Prof Thomas Sauter, Dr Jun Pang, Dr Vladimir Despotovic, Prof Jorge Goncalves, Dr Venkata Satagopam, Prof Christoph Schommer Venkata SatagopamVenkata Satagopam
• 6th Lecture Series AI4Health. See the program here. 3 March - 31 December 2020. Organisation: Prof Thomas Sauter, Prof Daniel Abankwa, Dr Jun Pang, Prof Christoph Schommer.
• Workshop Minds and Machines: Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education. With Prof Constantin Rothkopf (TU Darmstadt), Prof Paul Schrater (U Minnesota), Prof Pedro Cardosos (UL), Dr Dominic Mussack, Dr Siwen Guo, Prof Christoph Schommer. 10-14 February 2020.
• Workshop Philosophy of Mind: Mice, Men, and Machines. With Antonio Bikic, Adriano Mannino (both LMU Munich). 2-6 March 2020.
• 5th "ILIAS Lecture Series" (2018) - see here
• 4th "ILIAS Lecture Series" (2017) - see here
• European Language Resource Coordination Workshop (ELRC 2016). June 14, 2016.
• International Workshop "Exploring Old Maps" (EOM 2016; co-located with DH BeNeLux). June 8, 2016.
• 3rd Seminar Series 2010 - "Data Mining in Practice" / sponsored by the FNR
  • October 26 - December 7, 2010
• 2nd Seminar Series 2007 - "Data Streams" / sponsored by the FNR
• November 13 - December 18, 2007
• 1st Seminar Series 2005- "Artificial Intelligence" / sponsored by the FNR
  • May 17 - July 5, 2005

Invited Stays and Talks

• University Potsdam, Institute of Computer Science - Wissensverabeitung und Informationssysteme.
• Freie Universität Berlin (hosted by PD Dr Christoph Benzmüller), Dahlem Center of Machine Learning and Robotics.
• C. Schommer. Data Science. KMUTT University, Bangkok, Thailand (July 11, 2016), hosted by Prof. Kittichai Lavangnananda
• Tsinghua University, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. PR of China, June 25 - July 9, 2016. (hosted by Prof de Melo, Prof Yao)
• C. Schommer. About Data Science. Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung: Computerlinguistik und Digital Humanities. University of Cologne (January 28, 2016; invited by Prof Dr Juergen Rolshoven).
• Tsinghua University, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. PR of China, August 20 - September 5, 2015. (hosted by Prof de Melo, Prof Yao)
• Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main, Prof. Zicari, Database Group (July 9, 2015; invited by Prof Dr Roberto Zicari)
• University College London, UK. May 28-30, 2013. (invited by Prof Dr Philip Treleaven)

International Expert

• Independent Expert for European Research and Innovation
• Leibnitz Association
• Elsevier
• Springer
• IEEE
• Dutch Research Council

Reviewer of Journals

• World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd, Singapore
• Springer Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence
• IEEE Journal on Parallel and Distributed Systems. IEEE Society.
• Elsevier Journal on Applications of Mathematical Anlalysis and Applications
• Neural Processing Letters (Springer)

Reviewer of international conferences and Invited Member of Program Committees

2022

• ADHO DH. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations "Responding to Asian Diversity". 25 - 29 July. Tokio, Japan.
• ACM SAC. 25 - 29 April, Brno, Czech Republic.

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2021

• BNAIC 2021. Luxembourg, 10-12 November 2021 (PC Track Chair "AI and Arts")
• ACM SAC https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/ Gwangju, Korea, 22 - 26 March 2021.

 

2020

• FAB - International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Big Data Analytics. Vancouver, Canada, 27 - 30 August.
• 42nd CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2019. 29 July - 1 August. Toronto, Canada.105: ACM Workshop on NeuroEvolution at Work (NEWK) at GECCO 2020, Cancun, Mexico, 8-12 July 2020.
• FCTA 2020 - 12th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence. 2-4 November 2020, Budapest, Hungary.
• IJCAI-PRICAI 2020. 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Yokohama, Japan 11-17 July 2020.
• DHD 2020 - 7. Tagung des Verbandes "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum - Spielräume. Paderborn.
• 6th International Conference on Machine Vision and Machine Learning, 13-15 August 2020, Prague, Czech Republic.
• 6th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science - An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data without Borders, Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) Tuscany, Italy July 19-22, 2020.
• 16th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2020). 25-27 July 2020 in Xian, China.
• DH 2020 - Digital Humanities. Ottawa, Canada. 22-24 July 2020.
• ISMIS 2020 - 26th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. Graz, Austria. 20 - 22 May 2020.
• 12th ICAART International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. 22-24 February 2019, La Valetta, Malta.

 

2019

• FAB - International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Big Data Analytics. Vancouver, Canada, 27 - 30 August.
• LOD 2019 - 5th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science. September 10-13, 2019 – Certosa di Pontignano, Siena – Tuscany, Italy
• BIDMA 2019 - International Symposium on Big Data Management and Analytics. Calgary, Canada, 25-26 April 2019.
• KI 2019. 42nd Edition of the German Artificial Intelligence. Kassel, Germany. 23-26 September 2019.
• ECML PKDD September 16-20, 2019 in Würzburg, Germany
• 41st CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2019. 24-27 July. Montréal, Canada.
• DH 2019 - Digital Humanities. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 9-12 July 2019.
• AAMAS 2019 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. 13-17 May 2019. Montreal, Canada.
• FCTA 2019 - 11th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence. 17-19 September 2019, Vienna, Austria.
• 15th International Conference Beyond Databases Architectures and Structures (BDAS), Ustron, Poland. 28-31 May 2019.
• DHD 2019 - 6. Tagung des Verbandes "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum.
• 11th ICAART, International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. 19-21 February 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

 

2018

• ISMIS 2018 24th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. 29-31 October 2018, Limassol, Cyprus.
• GCAI-2018: 4th Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 18-21, 2018
• 7th Special Session on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM 2018); July 16 – 20, 2018, Orléans, France.
• ECML-PKDD 2018. Dublin, Ireland, 10-14 September.
• FAB - International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Big Data Analytics. Barcelona, Spain, 28-31 August.
• 40th CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2018. 25-28 July. Madison, US.
• 31st IEEE Computer-based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2018. 18 -21 June, Karlstad, Sweden.
• Digital Humanities (DH) 2018, Mexico City. 26-29 June 2018.
• BIDMA: International Symposium on Big Data Management and Analytics. Calgary, Canada, April 24-25, 2018.
• IEEE - 2017 Beyond Databases Architectures and Structures (BDAS) , Poznan, Poland 18 -- 20 September 2017.
• 10th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2018), 18-20 September 2018, Sevilla, Spain.
• 10th ICAART, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; 16-18 January 2018.

 

2017

• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017). Sydney, Australia, 31 July - 03 August, 2017
• ECML-PKDD, September 18-22, Skopje, Macedonia.
• 39th CogSci, London, UK; 26-29 July 2017.
• Workshop "Exploring Old Maps" (EOM); Würzburg, 6-7 April 2017.
• FAB 2017 1-3 Aug 2017. Sydney Australia.
• CORIA 2017, Mars 29-31. Marseille, France.
• 23rd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. June 26-29, 2017, Warsaw, Poland.
• 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems, 22 -24 June 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• 13th International Conference Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, 30 May - 02 June 2017, Ustron (near Krakow), Poland.
• Digital Humanities 2017 Montreal, Canada, August 8 - 11, 2017.
• DHD - Digital Humanities im Deutschsprachigen Raum 2017 Digitale Nachhaltigkeit, University of Bern, Switzerland. 13 - 18 February 2017.
• ICAART - 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Porto, Portugal. Feburary 24 - 26.

 

2016

• ECAI - European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The Hague, Netherlands. August 29 - September 2, 2016.
• ECML/PKDD (Scientific Track). Riva del Garda, Italy. September 19-23.
• 38th CogSci - Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, USA. August 10 -13.
• 29th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Dublin, Ireland. June 20 – 24.
• BIDMA - International Symposium on Big Data Management and Analytics. Calgary, Canada. April 25-26.
• FAB - International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Big Data Analytics. UC Davis. 20-21 August.
• ICAART – 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Rome, Italy. Feburary 24 - 26.
• IEEE ASONAM - International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. Davis, CA, USA. August 18 - 21, 2016.
• MOD - Second International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data. Pisa. July 2016.
• 12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC 2016), Changsha, China.
• 13ième COnférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications. Toulouse, France. Mars 8-11.
• 8th NCTA - International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications. November.

 

2015

• 24th IJCAI - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 25 - 31, July.
• ECML/PKDD. Porto, Portugal. Scientific Track. September 7 - 11.
• 28th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Sao Paulo, Brazil. June 22 – 25.
• 37th CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mind, Technology, and Society. Pasadena, CA, USA. July 23-25.
• European-Asia-Pacific Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci), Torino, Italy. September 25 – 27.
• FAB 2015 - International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Big Data Analytics. Paris, France. August 27 - 28.
• CORIA – Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications. Paris, France. March 18 – 20.
• ICAART – 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Lisbon, Portugal. January 10 -12.
• The EVOLVE International Conference – A bridge between probability, set-oriented numerics, and Evolutionary Computing. Iasi, Romania. June 18 – 24.
• 7th NCTA - International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications. Lisbon, Portugal. November 12 – 14.
• 12th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD). Zhangjiajie, PR of China. August 15 – 17.
• International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (MOD). Taormina, Sicilia, Italy. July 21 - 24.

 

2014

• ECML/PKDD. Nancy, France. September 15 – 19.
• 36th CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Meets Artificial Intelligence: Human and Artificial Agents in Interactive Contexts. Quebec, Canada.
• ICAART – 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Angers, France. March 6 – 8.
• The EVOLVE International Conference – A bridge between probability, set-oriented numerics, and Evolutionary Computing. July 1-4 2014 at Beijing, China.
• 6th NCTA - International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications. Rome, Italy. October 22 – 24.
• 11th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD). Xiamen, PR of China. August 19 – 21.
• ECDA - European Conference on Data Analysis. Bremen, Germany. July 1 - 4.
• IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE). Istanbul, Turkey. June 1 – 4.

 

2013

• ECML/PKDD. Prague, September 23 – 27.
• 35th CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany. July 31 – August 3
• 26th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Porto, Portugal. June 20 – 22.
• 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ottawa, Canada. July 11 – 14.
• ICAART – 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Barcelona, Spain. February 15 – 18.
• 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD). Shenyang. July 23 – 25.
• ICAS - 9th International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. Lisbon, Portugal. March 24 - 29.
• The EVOLVE International Conference – A bridge between probability, set-oriented numerics, and Evolutionary Computing. Leiden, Belgium. July 11 – 13.
• 5th NCTA - International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications. Vilamoura, Portugal. September 20 – 22.

 

2012

• 34th CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan. August 1 – August 4. 19: 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Workshop on Learning-based Biomedical Information Systems. Rome, Italy. June 20 - 22.
• ICAART – 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Vilamoura, Portugal. February 6 - 8.
• The EVOLVE International Conference – A bridge between probability, set-oriented numerics, and Evolutionary Computing. Mexico City, Mexico. August 7 - 9.
• 4th NCTA - International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications. Barcelona, Spain. October 5 – 7.
• 9th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD). Chongquing, PR of China. May 29 – 31.
• ECDA - European Conference on Data Analysis. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. July 10 - 14.

 

2011

• 33rd CogSci - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA, USA. July 20 – July 23.
• 24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS).Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biodemedicine. June 27 – 30.
• ICAART – 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Rome, Italy. January 28 – 30.
• The EVOLVE International Conference – A bridge between probability, set-oriented numerics, and Evolutionary Computing. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. May 25 – 27.
• 3rd NCTA - International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications. Paris, France. October 24 – 26.
• 8th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD). Shanghai, PR of China. July 26 – 28.

 

2010

23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Workshop on eHealth. Perth, Australia. October 12 -15.

IEEE Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) - Special Track on Soft Computing. Hammamet, Tunesia. May 16 – 19.

7th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD). Yantai, PR of China. August 10 – 12.

BNAIC - Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. October 25 – 26.

ICNC - International Conference on Neural Computation. Madeira, Portugal. October 5 – 7.

 

2009

• 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Workshop on Data Mining. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. August 2 – 5.

 

2008

• 1: 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge-based Techniques in Medicine. Jyväskylä, Finland. Juni 17 – 19.