Research
I am a PhD student (AiO in Dutch) at the University of Plymouth, UK. I am involved in the CONCEPT Project together with Frédéric Delaunay and Tony Belpaeme. My main topic of interest is the modeling of concepts in cognitive systems.
The ability to use concepts lies at the core of human intelligence. To create this capacity in artificial intelligent systems a thorough understanding is needed of how humans are able to learn and apply conceptual knowledge. To date the topic of concepts (or categories, classes) is studied in a wide variety of disciplines, but no comprehensive, all-inclusive theory has been developed yet. In my work I use a developmental robotics approach to tackle this problem.
Relevant code (which is under development) can be found here and here.
Other areas of interest include: cognitive systems, language games, computer vision, evolutionary robotics and philosophy.