FunAI research Lab

Welcome! We are the Fundamental AI Lab (FunAI Lab) at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), directed by Prof. Dr. Yuki M. Asano. We develop core technologies of current Foundation Models:

Self-supervised learning
Vision-language and multimodal learning
LLM reasoning and planning
Post-pretraining and instruction tuning

We put the fun into fundamental research.

News

Oct 1, 2024: Start of our new lab!

Research Staff

Yuki M. Asano

Head of Fundamental AI Lab

Valentinos Pariza

PhD Student at University of Technology Nuremberg (2024-)

Dawid Kopiczko

PhD Student at University of Technology Nuremberg (2024-)

Jona Ruthardt

PhD Student at University of Technology Nuremberg (2024-)

Lukas Knobel

PhD Student at University of Technology Nuremberg (2024-)

Danilo de Goede

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2023-)

Laurens Samson

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2023-)

Michael Dorkenwald

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2022-)

Mohammadreza Salehi

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2021-)

Pengwan Yang

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2021-)

Winfried van den Dool

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2021-)

Rob Romijnders

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2021-)

Phillip Lippe

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2021-)

Cathrin Titschack

Team Assistance of FunAI Lab at UTN

Visitors/Remote Collaborators

Elena Izzo

Visiting PhD Student, University of Padova

Ryosuke Yamada

Visiting Post-Doc (from June'25), University of Tsukuba, AIST

Walter Simoncini

Research Assistant

Affiliated members (e.g. current & past co-supervisors, co-supervised PhD students, etc.)

More to come!

Armand Joulin

Co-supervisor, principal scientist at Google Deepmind

Andrew Zisserman

Co-supervisor, Professor at VGG, University of Oxford & Google Deepmind

Hirokatsu Kataoka

Co-supervisor, Chief Senior Researcher, AIST, Japan & Oxford VGG

Andrei Bursuc

Co-supervisor, deputy scientific director at Valeo

Spyros Gidaris

Co-supervisor, Research at Valeo

Wilson Silva

Co-supervisor, Professor at Utrecht University & NKI

Sara Oliveira

Co-supervisor, Post-doc at NKI

Tijmen Blankevoort

Co-supervisor, Research at Meta AI

Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

Co-supervisor, Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Research

Serge Belongie

Co-supervisor, Professor at University of Copenhagen

Gertjan Burghouts

Co-supervisor, Research at TNO

Mathilde Caron

Co-supervisor, Google AI Research

Marc Rußwurm

Co-supervisor, Professor at University of Wageningen

Sagar Vaze

Co-supervisor, Mistral AI

Tengda Han

Co-supervisor, Google Deepmind

Sennay Ghebreab

Co-supervisor, Professor at University of Amsterdam

Amir Habibian

Co-supervisor, Director of Engineering at Qualcomm AI Research

Efstratios Gavves

Co-supervisor, Professor at University of Amsterdam

Max Welling

Co-supervisor, Professor at University of Amsterdam

Cees G.M. Snoek

Co-supervisor, Professor at University of Amsterdam

FunAI Lab alumni

Daniel Cores (Visiting Researcher 2024)
Abhishek Jha (Visiting PhD 2024)
Valentinos Pariza (Msc thesis 2024) --> PhD at FunAI Lab
Jona Ruthardt (Msc thesis 2024) --> PhD at FunAI Lab
Dawid Kopiczko (Msc thesis 2024) --> PhD at FunAI Lab
Walter Simoncini (Msc thesis 2024) --> PhD at FunAI Lab
Marga Don (Msc research 2024)
Gabriele Desimini (Msc thesis 2024)
Dheeraj Varghese (Msc thesis 2024)
Ryan Amaudruz (Msc thesis 2024)
Ioanna Gogou (Msc thesis 2024)
Nimi Barazani (Msc thesis 2024)
Gergely Papp (Msc thesis 2024)
Adrian Ziegler (Msc thesis 2021) --> Tech startup
Alfonso Warmerdam (Msc thesis 2023) --> Tech startup
Kaya ter Burg (Msc thesis 2023) --> Dutch Institute of Systems and Control
Luc Weytingh (Msc thesis 2023) --> AI Designer & Artist
Lukas Knobel (Msc thesis 2023) --> TNO --> PhD at FunAI Lab
Sunny Soni (Msc thesis 2023) --> Vintus
Apostolos Panagiotopoulos (Msc thesis 2023) --> ING --> AWS
Jochem Loedeman (Msc thesis 2022) --> Xebia
Anne van der Weijden (Bsc thesis 2022) --> Deloitte
Carlos Medina Temma (Msc thesis 2021) --> Qiagen

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FunAI resources and code

You can find resources (data, code, repositories) released by FunAI Lab members on our github page and on our huggingface page

Find us

We are located at Ulmenstrasse 52i, 90461 Nuremberg, Germany (→ directions).
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