Recent Activities

• Guest editor Frontiers on Algorithms and Technologies towards Robotic Food Manipulation (2021)

• Program Committee Member NeSy workshop at International Joint Conference on Learning and Reasoning (2021/10)

• Co-organizer AIxFood workshop at ACM Multimedia 2021 (2021/10)

• Co-organizer workshop on New Horizons for Robot Learning: Closing the Innovation Loop at IROS 2021 (2021/10)

• Program committee member Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in XAI at Bratislava Knowledge September (BASK) 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (2021/09)

• Invited panelist at PREDICTABLY UNPREDICTABLE at Wiener Festwochen (2021/09)

• Area Chair IJCAI-21 (2021/08)

• Paper accepted on abstract and episodic neurons in episodic Meta-RL at workshop on Learning to Learn ICLR 2021 (2021/05)

• Invited participant at Dagstuhl seminar on Representing and Solving Spatial Problems, Dagstuhl, Germany (2021/12, postponed due to COVID19 pandemic)

• Invited talk SemDeep-6 at IJCAI 2020, Yokohama, Japan (2021/01, postponed due to COVID19 pandemic)

• Co-organizer workshop on AIxFood at IJCAI 2020 (2021/01, postponed due to COVID19 pandemic))

• Program committee member KR2ML at NeurIPS 2020 (2020/12)

• Co-organizer workshop SMILES Workshop: Sensorimotor Interaction, Language and Embodiment of Symbols at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB (2020/11)

• Program committee member CoNLL at EMNLP2020 (2020/11)

• Program committee member Nesy2020 at IJCLR (2020/09)

• Paper on hypothesis generation accepted at IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2020/08)

• Program committee member Knowledge Graphs and E-commerce at KDD 2020 (2020/08)

• Guest editor Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Mechanisms of Language Learning in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Developmental Systems (2020/06)

• Keynote at Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference, Vienna, Austria (2020/05, virtual keynote)

• Invited lecture on Embodied Symbol Emergence at Interdisciplinary College 2020, Guenne, Germany (2020/03, cancelled due to COVID19 pandemic)

• Invited participant Workshop AI for scientific discovery workshop organized by at Alan Turing Institute, London, UK (2020/02)

• Program committee member of AAAI 2020 (2020/02)

• Talk and presentation at Madrid Fusion 2020 with Francois Chartier, Andoni Luis Aduriz (Mugaritz) and Romain Fornell (GOÛT ROUGE) (2020/01)

• Program committee member of workshop on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Meets Machine Learning (KR2ML) workshop at NeurIPS (2019/12)

• Talk at NeurIPS Expo day on computational creativity for music and gastronomy, Vancouver, Canada (2019/12)

• Talk at Sony Technology Exchange Fair (STEF) on computational creativity, Tokyo, Japan (2019/12)

• Invited talk on Das Fremde at Art&Tech days Košice, Slovakia (2019/11)

• Invited talk e-Ladda kickoff workshop, Trondheim, Norway (2019/11)

• Program committee member of IROS 2019 Workshop on Deep Probabilistic Generative Models for Cognitive Architecture in Robotics (2019/11)

• Invited talk at Shonan meeting From natural to artificial embodied intelligence: is Deep Learning the solution, Shonan, Japan (2019/11)

• Invited talk at Workshop on Robotic Food Manipulation at Humanoids 2019 in Toronto, Canada (2019/10)

• Invited talk at Smart Kitchen Summit 2019, Seattle, US (2019/10)

• Abstract accepted at ICCV 2019 Workshop on Multi-Discipline Approach for Learning Concepts - Zero-Shot One-Shot Few-Shot and Beyond (2019/10)

• PAI all partner meeting and ABOUT ML steering committee meeting, London, UK (2019/09)

• Symposium organizer and speaker on BENCHMARKS FOR AGENT-BASED MODELS OF LANGUAGE EMERGENCE at Protolang 6 (2019/09)

• Program committee member of IJCAI 2019 (2019/08)

• Paper accepted on Neural-symbolic Reinforcement Learning at workshop NeSy19 (Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning) at IJCAI 2019, Macao/SAR, CN (2019/08)

• Industry day talk for Sony at IJCAI 2019, Macao/SAR, CN (2019/08)

• Program committee member of CogVis-2019 at CogSys (2019/08)

• Program committee member of Semdeep-5 at IJCAI 2019 (2019/08)

• Program committee member of NeSy19 (Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning) at IJCAI 2019 (2019/08)

• Invited talk workshop on Applications of Personal Robotics for Interaction and Learning (APRIL) at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2019, Oslo, Norway (2019/08)

• Co-organizer workshop on language learning at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2019, Oslo, Norway (2019/08)

• Associate Editor IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2019 (2019/08)

• Paper accepted on reservoir computing for grounded language grounding at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2019, Oslo, Norway (2019/08)

• Program committee member of IEA/AEI 2019 (2019/07)

• Program committee member (meta-reviewer) of Cogsci 2019 (2019/07)

• Invited talk on AI and robot art at Gamma Festival, St Petersburg, Russia (2019/07)

• Invited talk + panel Japan Media Art Festival and Mutek , Tokyo, Japan (2019/06)

• Invited talk at Shonan meeting on Language as goal-directed, sequential behavior (2019/05)

• Paper on sensorimotor learning accepted at IEEE ICRA 2019, Montreal, Canada (2019/05)

• Program committee member of Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for HRI: Embodied Models of Situated Natural Language Interactions (MM-Cog) at AAMAS 2019 (2019/05)

• Invited talk at CrossRoads #1, Tokyo, Japan (2019/05)

• Invited participant Partnership on AI workshop on "Positive Futures from AI", San Francisco, US (2019/05)

• Speaker AI Summit on AI, Sony and Creativity, Tokyo, Japan (2019/04)

• Panel on CSL 30th anniversary at Sony HQ Tokyo, JP (2019/03)

• Invited talk on language learning and emergence at JST-CREST / IEEE-RAS Spring School on "Social and Artificial Intelligence for User-Friendly Robots", Shonan, Japan (2019/03)

• AIxFood panel discussion at Sony at SXSW, Austin, TX, US (2019/03)

• Das Fremde art installation at Sony at SXSW, Austin, TX, US // press release CSL // press release Sony (2019/03)

• Guest Editor Frontiers Research Topic on Language and Robotics (2019/03)

• Co-organizer Shonan meeting on Learning to communicate, Shonan, Japan (2019/02)

• Associate editor for IEEE TCDS (2019/01)

• Paper accepted at Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA) on Das Fremde, Hong Kong, China (2019/01)

• Paper accepted at NIPS/NeurIPS workshop on Emergent Communication, Montreal, Canada (2018/12)

• Participant for Sony at Partnership for AI meeting in San Francisco, US (2018/11)

• Participant at re:think food meeting in Napa Valley, US (2018/11)

• Invited speaker at International Conference on Digital Creativity at Mutek JP Tokyo, Japan (2018/11)

• Paper accepted in Special issue on AI, Art and Aesthetics at JSAI Journal of Artificial Intelligence on Das Fremde (2018/11)

• Co-organizer workshop on Language and Robotics at IROS 2018 Madrid, Spain (2018/10)

• Co-author paper on sensorimotor learning accepted at IROS 2018 Madrid, Spain (2018/10)

• Invited talk on learning to communicate at Workshop on active vision, attention and learning at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB, Tokyo, Japan (2018/09)

• Associate editor (meta-reviewer) of IEiEE ICDL-EPIROB 2018, Tokyo, Japan (2018/09)

• Session chair language learning at IEiEE ICDL-EPIROB 2018, Tokyo, Japan (2018/09)

• Co-organizer symposium on From fieldwork to modelling: Explaining the variability of linguistic spatial referencing system at ICSC 2018, Rome, Italy (2018/09)

• Co-presenter abstract on causal models in spatial reference studies at ICSC 2018, Rome, Italy (2018/09)

• Program committee member of SemDeep-3 at COLING 2018 (2018/08)

• Program committee Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions at COLING 2018 (2018/08)

• Program committee member of Nesy18 workshop at HLAI (2018/08)

• Co-author paper on constraint-based machine learning accepted at Nesy18 workshop at HLAI (2018/08)

• Invited lecture on concept grounding in robots at Summer School Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA) in Osnabrueck, Germany (2018/08)

• Invited talk on language and gesture learning in robots at Workshop on “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application" (CARLA) in Osnabrueck, Germany (2018/08)

• Co-organizer Joint Workshop on Sharing Autonomy in Human-Robot Interaction at IJCAI/ECAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden (2018/07)

• Co-organizer tutorial on neural-symbolic computing at IJCAI/ECAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden (2018/07)

• Program committee member of IJCAI/ECAI 2018 (2018/07)

• Co-organizer tutorial on neural-symbolic computing at IJCNN/WCCI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018/07)

• Program committee member of ALIFE 2018 (2018/07)

• Co-organizer EVOSLACE: Workshop on the emergence and evolution of social learning, communication, language and culture in natural and artificial agents at ALIFE 2018, Tokyo, Japan (2018/07)

• Das Fremde wins jury selection price Japan Media Art Festival (2018/07)

• Program committee member of NAACL-HLT 2018 (2018/06)

• Guest editorial board Special Issue on Semantic Deep Learning in Semantic Web Journal (2018)

• Program committee member of Latent Semantics for the Web (LSW) at ACM WWW'18 (2018/04)

• Invited speaker at Dommune radio about AI+Art with Refik Anadol and Ryota Kanai (2018/04)

• Invited speaker at 17th AI Art and Aesthetics Research Meeting "AI-Aesthetics-Art" on 1 April (Sun) at Bigakko Tokyo Japan (2018/04)

• Das Fremde and invited talk at Sónar+D in Hong Kong (2018/03)

• Co-organizer and speaker at Symposium Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning at City, University of London, London, UK (2018/02)

• Program committee member (meta-reviewer) of Cogsci 2018 (2018/02)

• Invited talk at LangRobo seminar on symbol emergence (2018/01)

• NIPS 2017 Long Beach, US for PAI meeting / Sony (2017/12)

• Das Fremde at Gwangju Media Art Festival in Gwangju, Korea (2017/12)

• Das Fremde at Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics exhibition presented at OIST, Okinawa, Japan (2017-11 / 2018-01)

• Invited talk symposium "Meaning/Meaningless and Language" as part of Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics exhibition, OIST, Okinawa, Japan (2017/11)

• Das Fremde at Gotenyama Art+Technology Week (2017/11, interview)

• Program committee member of Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics (HSSUES) at ISWC 2017 (2017/10)

• Program committee member of European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2017) (2017/09)

• Program committee member of WINKS workshop at JOWO 2017 (2017/09)

• Workshop on language learning at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2017 (2017/09)

• Paper on language learning and tutoring at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2017 (2017/09)

• Program committee member of SemDeep-2 at IWCS (2017/09)

• Paper on automated pathway curation accepted at ACL BioNLP (2017/08)

• Program committee member of Workshop on Grounded Language Understanding (GLU 2017) Satellite of Interspeech 2017 (2017/08)

• Program committee member (meta reviewer) of CogSci 2017 (2017/07)

• Program committee member of IEA/AEI 2017 (2017/06)

• Invited participant Dagstuhl seminar on Human-like Neural-Symbolic Computing (2017/05)

• Invited participant Ernst Strüngmann Forum on Interactive Task Learning (2017/05)

• Invited participant Lorentz Center workshop on Perspectives on Developmental Robotics (2017/05)

• Program committee member of SemDeep workshop at ESWC 2017 (2017/05)

• Method Course on Language Learning with Robots at Interdisciplinary College, Guenne, Germany (2017/03)

• Paper accepted at AAAI spring school on Computational Construction Grammar (2017/03)

• Invited to specialist meeting about Universals and Variation in Spatial Referencing across Cultures and Languages in Santa Barbara, US (2016/12)

• Installation Das Fremde in Lausanne (Switzerland) at Les Urbaines (2016/11)

• Installation Das Fremde in Zurich (Switzerland) at the week long Us&Them (2016/11)

• Giving a talk and demo on the language research at Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. at Sony CSL Paris Open House in Paris, France (2016/10)

• Invited talk on construction learning at the annual meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (2016/09)

• Co-organizer Workshop on Language Learning at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB (2016/09)

• ATLANTIS Atelier on multi-modal grounded language learning at CAES summer school(2016/09) - this atelier won the best technical atelier price

• Paper on automated pathway curation accepted at ACL BioNLP (2016/08)

• Guest editor Special section on Computational Models in Language Acquisition published in Interaction Studies (2016/08)

• Guest editor Special issue on Cognitive Robotics in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (2016/08)

• Paper on robust language processing accepted at IJCAI-16 (2016/07)

• Invited Workshop at 2016 UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference on Synthetic Models of Language Evolution (2016/07)

• Casparo Performance at ICCC 2016 Paris, France (2016/06)

• Invited talk and participation at APRIL ITN Paris Workshop on Foundations in Personal Robotics (2016/05)

• Associate partner in the APRIL project (Applications of Personal Robotics for Interaction and Learning) a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Industrial Doctorate Innovative Training Network (2016)

• Invited lecture at the 2nd ESSENCE summer school on Evolutionary Semantics (2015/08)

• Attended a workshop at University of Southern California on Action, Vision and Language and their Brain Mechanisms in Evolutionary Relationship (2015/08)

• Paper on incremental learning accepted at RSS Workshop on Model Learning for Human-Robot control (2015/07)

• New paper on Natural Language semantics for robots accepted at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2015(2015/06)

• New paper on SBML/BioPAX conversion accepted at BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2015(2015/06)

• Website is up for the tutorial on Evolutionary Semantics at IJCAI'15 (2015/06)

• New paper on language learning accepted at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2015 (2015/05)

• Invited member of IEEE AMD Language and Cognition Task Force (2015/04)

• Paper on language learning accepted at IJCAI-15 (2015/04)

• Abstract on Ontogenetic Ritualization accepted at Protolang 4 in Rome, Italy (2015/04)

• Poster on Ontogenetic Ritualization wins poster prize at Tokyo Lectures In Language Evolution (2015/04)

• Workshop on Cognitive Robotics accepted at 2015 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS) (read more)

• Invited lecture at Interdisciplinary College (IK) 2015 on robots and language evolution (2015/03, read more)

• Tutorial on Grounded Language Processing accepted for International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2015/01)

• Paper presentation at International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (ISAROB) on Robot Models of the Cultural Evolution of Language (2015/01)

• Invited talk and participation at CITEC-ABLE workshop on Construction Grammar (2014/12)

• CASPARO opera performance in Leuven (Belgium) as part of the Vesalius year (2014/12)

• Organizer special track on Cognitive Robotics at PRICAI 2014 (2014/12, read more ...)

• Reviewer for Artificial Life Journal (2014/11)

• Paper presentation at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2014 on Ontogenetic Ritualization (2014/10)

• Invited talk at CogRob 2014 (ECAI 2014) on Evolution of Natural Language Semantics (2014/08)

• Reviewer for PRICAI 2014 (2014/08)

• Reviewer for IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2014 (2014/07)

• Reviewer for International Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2014/06)

• Reviewer for Adaptive Behavior (2014/05)

• Paper presentation at 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language EvolangX (2014/04)

• Workshop presentation at the workshop on Grammaticalization at 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language EvolangX (2014/03)

• Invited participation and talks at Dagstuhl Seminar on Spatial reference in the Semantic Web and in Robotics (2014/03)

• Reviewer for CogSci 2014 (2014/03)

• Attended IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2013/11)

• Official move from Sony's ITDD R&D division to Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. (2013/10)

• Invited seminar on Evolutionary semantics at Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (2013/10)

• Invited talk workshop on Language Development and Robots at University of Amsterdam (2013/10)

• Invited lecture and atelier on Computational Cognitive Semantics at the international Summerschool on Agent-based Models of Creativity (2013/09)

• Organizer workshop on Collective Behaviors and Social Dynamics at 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (2013/09)

• Paper presentation on spatial language evolution at 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (2013/09)

• Paper presentation on spatial language learning at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2013 (2013/08)

• Paper presentation 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence on Evolutionary semantics (2013/07)

• Reviewer for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2013/04)

• Reviewer for CogSci 2013 (2013/03)

• Invited course lecturer on Computational Cognitive Semantics at Bangor Summer School on Cognitive Linguistics (2013/07)

• CASPARO opera performance in Tokyo (Japan) as part of 25 years Sony Computer Science Laboratories (2014/05)

• CASPARO opera performance in Brussels (Belgium) as part of 50 years A.I. lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (2014/05, see here for a video)

• Seminar on Evolutionary Semantics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HKUST (2013/03)

• Journal paper on evolving spatial language strategies published in Springer's Künstliche Intelligenz (2013/01)

• Reviewer for 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2012/11)

• ECCAI honorable mention best PhD in 2011 at ECAI 2014 (2012/08)

• Papers published in Springer book on Language Grounding in Robots (2012/07)

• Papers published in John Benjamin book on Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution (2012/07)

• Paper published in Springer LNCS New Directions in Logic, Language, and Computation(2012/06)

• Paper published in John Benjamin book on Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar (2011)