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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

Portrait (Dawid Kopiczko)

Dawid Kopiczko

PhD Student at University of Technology Nuremberg (2024-)
Portrait (Jona Ruthardt)

Jona Ruthardt

PhD Student at University of Technology Nuremberg (2024-)
Portrait (Lukas Knobel)

Lukas Knobel

PhD Student at University of Technology Nuremberg (2024-)
Portrait (Pengwan Yang)

Pengwan Yang

PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (2021-)

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

Portrait (More to come!)

More to come!

Portrait (Armand Joulin)

Armand Joulin

Co-supervisor, principal scientist at Google Deepmind
Portrait (Andrew Zisserman)

Andrew Zisserman

Co-supervisor, Professor at VGG, University of Oxford & Google Deepmind
Portrait (Andrei Bursuc)

Andrei Bursuc

Co-supervisor, deputy scientific director at Valeo
Portrait (Wilson Silva)

Wilson Silva

Co-supervisor, Professor at Utrecht University & NKI
Portrait (Marc Rußwurm)

Marc Rußwurm

Co-supervisor, Professor at University of Wageningen
Portrait (Amir Habibian)

Amir Habibian

Co-supervisor, Director of Engineering at Qualcomm AI Research
Portrait (Max Welling)

Max Welling

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

You?

Join us! →Open positions

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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