Humboldt Fellow Prof Chu Kiong Loo joins the Knowledge Technology Team

26 April 2018, by Burhan Hafez

Photo: humboldt-foundation.de

The Knowledge Technology group and Prof. Dr. Chu Kiong Loo from the University of Malaya in Malaysia have been selected and been awarded a Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Chu Kiong Loo will be hosted by Dr Weber, Prof Wermter and the Knowledge Technology team in Hamburg for 17 months over consecutive visits between September 2018 and March 2021 starting in July 2018.

His research project is in the area of Hybrid Neural Systems, Unsupervised Learning, and in particular on Topological Deep Multiple Timescale Neural Networks for Cognitive Learning and Memory Modelling towards Human-level Synthetic Intelligence. This "NeuroSynthelligence" project combines several different neural methodologies developed by Prof. Loo and by the Knowledge Technology team, such as multimodal stimulus processing, recurrent memory, symbolic and language processing, in order to achieve intelligent interactive behaviour on the Knowledge Technology NICO robot.