• Human Computer Interaction
• Generative AI
• Explainable AI
• Affective Computing
• Virtual Reality

Current Projects

• Avatopia
• KI_VR_DaFuB

Past Projects

• PRoVoCE

• Best Paper Award International Conference on Deep Learning Theories and Applications (DeLTA 2020)

• Honorable Mention IEEE Virtual Reality (IEEEVR 2022)
  
  
• Honorable Mention Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2022)
  
  
• 1st Place A-VB Challenge International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII2022)
  
  
• 2nd Place ComParE Challenge ’Escalation Detection’ Interspeech 2021
  
  
• 4th Place COVID-19 AI Challenge STOIC2021
  
  
• Best Poster Award International Conference on Deep Learning Theories and Applications (DeLTA 2024)
  
  
• Best Poster Nominee Award ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2025)
  
  

• Co-Organizer Special Session Explanation User Interfaces (XUI) at XAI World Conference 2026

• Organizing Committee member Tutorial on Interactive Generative AI for Virtual Agents (IGAIVA) at 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) 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

• Scientific Committee member Audiomostly 2024

• Organizing Committee member Interdisciplinary Tutorshop 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 Decicion-making and Optimization Workshop at ECAI 2024

• Program Committee member International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2024, 2025 & 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