Prof. Dr. Silvan Mertes
- Generative AI
- Explainable AI
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Virtual Reality
- Mixed Reality
- Best Paper Award, International Conference on Deep Learning Theories and Applications (DeLTA 2020)
- Honorable Mention at IEEE Virtual Reality (IEEEVR 2022)
- Honorable Mention at Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2022)
- 1st Place in the A-VB Challenge at the International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2022)
- 2nd Place in the ComParE Challenge “Escalation Detection” at Interspeech 2021
- 4th Place in the COVID-19 AI Challenge at STOIC 2021
- Best Poster Award, International Conference on Deep Learning Theories and Applications (DeLTA 2024)
- Best Poster Nominee Award at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2025)
- Co-Organizer of the Special Session on Explanatory User Interfaces (XUI) at the XAI World Conference 2026
- Organizing Committee Member, Tutorial on Interactive Generative AI for Virtual Agents (IGAIVA) at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2025
- Program Committee Member, 1st International Conference on Agentic and Generative Techniques in Intelligent Computational Systems (AGENTICS) 2025 & 2026
- Organizing Committee Member (Proceedings Chair) for the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2025
- Program Committee Member, Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026
- Program Committee Member, World Conference on Explainable AI (XAI 2026)
- Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025 & 2026
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2025 & 2026
- Scientific Committee member, Audiomostly 2024
- Organizing Committee Member, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Interactions with Embodied Virtual Agents at IVA 2024
- Session Chair, 5th International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (DeLTA’24)
- Program Committee Member, Trustworthy Sequential Decision-Making and Optimization Workshop at ECAI 2024
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2024, 2025, and 2026
- Program Committee Member, Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence at IJCAI 2023 & 2025
- Session Chair, 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (DeLTA’21)
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2021–2025
- Senior Program Committee Member, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2026
I have served as a peer reviewer for ...
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
- ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
- Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
- IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
- Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI@IJCAI)
- International Conference on Agentic and Generative Techniques in Intelligent Computational Systems (AGENTICS)
- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- World Conference on Explainable AI (XAI)
- Journal of Big Data
- Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications
- Elsevier Applied Soft Computing
- International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
- Audio Mostly Conference
- PeerJ Computer Science
- Frontiers in Computer Science
- IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
- Frontiers in Virtual Reality
- IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2)
- Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
- Frontiers in Big Data
- Entertainment Computing