Robin Nolte

• Metacognition, Introspection, and Meta-Reasoning
• Cognitive Architectures and AI for Robotics
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Ontologies and Description Logics
• Non-monotonic and Hybrid Reasoning

Possible thesis topics:

I currently offer final theses only exceptionally.

Robin Nolte joined the Digital Media Lab as a PhD student and research assistant in 2022.

Robin’s primary research interest lies in metacognitive abilities: An AI system should not only produce a result but also be able to record information about how that result was arrived at, which assumptions played a role in the process, and where an error may have occurred.

To this end, as part of the Collaborative Research Center 1320 EASE—Everyday Activity Science and Engineering—he combines approaches from knowledge representation and automated reasoning with cognitive architectures and robotics. Among other things, he develops formal models of metacognitive experiences that can be used to describe the internal processes of robotic systems. In addition, he investigates logical methods for handling incomplete knowledge, standard assumptions, and exceptions. In the long term, he aims to contribute to AI systems that can autonomously correct themselves and whose decisions are more transparent.

Before joining the Digital Media Lab, he worked in the Theory of Artificial Intelligence research group at the University of Bremen, at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and as a machine learning engineer at JUST ADD AI.

Projects:

• EASE

Publikationen:

Google Scholar  & ORCID

• Computer Science Faculty Award 2021 for an outstanding final thesis

  University of Bremen, June 2022

  For my master’s thesis “Analysis of Module Extraction Algorithms for their Applicability to Atomic Decomposition of an Ontology". Awarded one year retrospectively due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• “Bremen's Best”

  Federal State of Bremen, June 2013

  Honored as one of the best high school graduates in the 2013 class of the Federal State of Bremen by the Senator for Education and Science.