On July 21, 2017, I have given the research talk "Automating Scientific Research in Optimization" at the Artificial Intelligence Group of the Faculty of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology [Technische Universität Chemnitz] in Chemnitz, Germany. The host of the talk was Dr. Julien Vitay who welcomed me also in the name of Prof. Dr. Fred Hamker. I was particularly happy to come back here and present our work, as the TU Chemnitz is my old alma mater, the AI Group has a wide variety of very interesting projects, and I even presented in the very same room where I defended my Master's thesis work more than twelve years ago.
The group is renowned for its research on model-driven approaches for exploring visual perception and cognition, having contributed significantly to the topics of object recognition, conscious perception, attention, cognitive control of visual perception, and space perception. It also investigates novel deep learning technologies. Besides contribution much to fundamental research, the group also provides the open source software Artificial Neural Networks architect (ANNarchy), a parallel and hybrid simulator for distributed rate-coded or spiking neural networks written mainly in C++ and parallelized using openMP or CUDA. The group is furthermore associated with the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (bccn).
Like my talk yesterday at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, the talk was received with broad interest. I am very thankful to Dr. Vitay and Prof. Hamker for publicizing this presentation. The comprehensive thought exchanges before and after talk were also truly inspiring.
