Dr. Burhan Hafez

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Postdoctoral Associate TRR CML Project
Knowledge Technology
Address
Universität Hamburg
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Department of Informatics
Knowledge Technology Research Group
Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30
22527 Hamburg
Office
Room: F-216
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42883-2535
Fax: +49 40 4273-14634
Links
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Cognitive Robotics
Projects
- 2020-Present TRR-169 "Cross-Modal Learning"
- 2016-2020 Neural Network-based Robotic Grasping via Curiosity-driven Reinforcement Learning (NeuralGrasp)
Service
- Reviewer (a list of verified peer reviews available on publons):
- Neural Computing & Applications
- International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics
- Sub-Reviewer:
- ICDL-EpiRob (2017, 2019), IJCNN (2018, 2019), ICANN (2018, 2019), ICONIP (2014)
- PC member
- IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems (MRSSS 2016), Singapore, June 6-10, 2016
Selected Publications
- M.B. Hafez, C. Weber, M. Kerzel, and S. Wermter, “Improving Robot Dual-System Motor Learning with Intrinsically Motivated Meta-Control and Latent-Space Experience Imagination,”Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 133, pp. 103630, 2020.
- M.B. Hafez, C. Weber, M. Kerzel, and S. Wermter, “Efficient Intrinsically Motivated Robotic Grasping with Learning-Adaptive Imagination in Latent Space,”in 9th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), pp. 240–246, Oslo, Norway, 2019.
- M.B. Hafez, C. Weber, M. Kerzel and S. Wermter, “Curious Meta-Controller: Adaptive Alternation between Model-Based and Model-Free Control in Deep Reinforcement Learning,”in IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1–9, Budapest, Hungary, 2019.
- M.B. Hafez, C. Weber, M. Kerzel and S. Wermter, “Deep Intrinsically Motivated Continuous Actor-Critic for Efficient Robotic Visuomotor Skill Learning,” Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 14–29, 2019.
- M.B. Hafez, M. Kerzel, C. Weber and S. Wermter, “Slowness-based neural visuomotor control with an Intrinsically motivated Continuous Actor-Critic,”in 26th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), pp. 509–514, Bruges, Belguim, 2018.
- M.B. Hafez, C. Weber and S. Wermter, “Curiosity-Driven Exploration Enhances Motor Skills of Continuous Actor-Critic Learner,”in 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), pp. 39–46, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.
- M.B. Hafez and C.K. Loo, “Topological Q-learning with Internally Guided Exploration for Mobile Robot Navigation,” Journal of Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1939–1954, 2015.
- M.B. Hafez and C.K. Loo, “Curiosity-based Topological Reinforcement Learning,”in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1979–1984, San Diego, CA, USA, 2014.