Teaching

Lectures, Seminars & Tutorials (last updated summer 2017):

Winter Term 2011/12 (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück):

- Games, Mechanisms, Rationality & Decisions: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

- Interdisciplinary Course: Knowledge & Action: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy of Mind).

- Methods of AI (Tutorial): B.Sc. lecture in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

Summer Term 2012 (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück):

- (More) Games, Mechanisms, Rationality & Decisions: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

- How did logic happen - and what is it good for?: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

Winter Term 2012/13 (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück):

- Machines, Minds, Magic?! Capita Selecta in the Philosophy of AI: B. Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy of Mind).

- Games, Mechanisms, Rationality & Decisions: B. Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

- Computational Creativity: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

- Interdisciplinary Course: "Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft": B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy of Mind).

- Methods of AI (Tutorial): B.Sc. lecture in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

Summer Term 2014 (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück):

- Siri, Watson, Skynet: An Introduction to Artificial General Intelligence: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence).

Winter Term 2014/15 (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück):

- The Human Fallacy: Rationality in Reasoning: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy of Mind).

Winter Term 2015/16 (Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano):

- M.Sc. Seminar in Data & Knowledge Engineering: M.Sc. seminar in Computer Science (Data & Knowledge Engineering).

Winter Term 2016/17 (Digital Media Lab, University of Bremen):

- Interdisciplinary Module: Computational Creativity ("Interdisziplinäres Modul: Computational Creativity"): B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Digital Media Studies (in collaboration with the University of the Arts Bremen).

- Interaction Design (Tutorial): B. Sc. lecture in Digital Media Studies.

Summer Term 2017 (Digital Media Lab, University of Bremen):

- Psychological Foundations of Digital Media: B.Sc./M.Sc. seminar in Digital Media Studies (in collaboration with the University of the Arts Bremen) and Computer Science.

- Bachelor Project Computational Creativity: B.Sc. study project in Digital Media Studies (in collaboration with the University of the Arts Bremen) and Computer Science.

Thesis Supervision:

Main supervisor:

- An Approach to Efficiently Calculating Dodgson-Scores Using Heuristics and Parallel Computing. A. Recknagel, B.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2014.

- An Approach to Supervised Learning of Three-Valued Lukasiewicz Logic in Hölldobler's Core Method. F. Harder, B.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2015.

Second supervisor/Committee member:

- Enhancing Creativity Using a Concept of Game Environment. F. Caratti, B.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2014.

- Conceptual Blending for the Automatic Generation of Harmonic Progressions. I. Kavanagh, M.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2014.

- Evo2DSim: A 2D Simulator Framework for Evolutionary Multi-Agent Robotics. V. Churavy, B.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2014.

- Intelligent adaptive opponents in video games - A machine learning approach to dynamically challenging competition. J. Pfau, B.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2015.

- Inferring Rules from Behavioural Data. C. Strunk, B.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2015.

- Modeling Semantic Cognition as Logical Dimensionality Reduction, Revisited. T. Behrens, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2016.

- A Mis-perception Based Artificial Painter. L. Berov, M.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2016.

- Challenge yourself - A cognitive agent's deep reinforcement learning framework for adaptive, intelligent and interesting competition in video game opponents. J. Pfau, M.Sc. thesis, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2016.