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