Invited researcher (fully sponsored):
KRDB, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
January 7-21, 2023
Invited speaker:
Educational Series on Applied Ontolog (ESAO) webinar, October 1st, 2024
Title of the talk: “Cognitive Foundation for KR”
International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)
Panel Member at The Ontology, Creativity and AI Panel, July 2024
FOIS 2024: Formal Ontology in Information Systems
University of Twente
EASE KR Symposium on Interaction-engaging Robots 2024, March 26th, 2024
Title of the talk: “Pieces of Mind: The cognitive components of thoughts and reasoning and their formal correspondence”
University of Bremen
Department of AI and Data Science, January 30th, 2024
Title of the talk: “Formalising Thought Patterns: Using image schemas for improving computational intelligence in both computational creativity systems and cognitive robotics”
Chalmers Technical University
Pedagogical Development Group’s Seminar, November 7th, 2023
Title of the talk: “Responsible Education in the Age of AI”
Jönköping School of Engineering, Sweden
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, September 5th, 2022
Title of the talk: “Semantically, piece by piece: on the value of using conceptual primitives in intelligent systems”
University of Bremen, Germany
AI-Accelerator directed to start-ups, June 8th, 2022
Title of the talk: “A Tiny Taste on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence”
Science Park, Jönköping, Sweden
EASE fall school, November 10th, 2021
Title of the talk: “From Sense to Reason – Using Image Schemas to Intelligently Reason about Objects and Events”
Online
AI-Dagen, September 30th, 2021
Invited to moderate the event as a AI scientist
ELMIA, Jönköping, Sweden
Jönköping AI Lab, October 27, 2020
Title of the talk: “Image Schemas: Puzzle pieces of thought to ground meaning in AI”
Jönköping, Sweden
Venice International University, October 5-9, 2020
MUHAI kick-off meeting
Title of the talk: “What’s the meaning of this? Representing meaning with image schemas”
Venice, Italy
IIIA-CSIC, February 7, 2017
Title of the talk: “From embodied cognition to formal representation”
Bellaterra, Spain
Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Computet Science, January 5, 2017
Title of the talk: “Image schemas in computational concept invention”
Dresden, Germany
IIIA-CSIC, April 14, 2016
Title of the talk: “Concept invention for AI using the cognitive theories of image schemas and conceptual blending”
Bellaterra, Spain
Study/Project Groups:
Modelling Conceptual Knowledge and Conceptual Change
Second meeting: November 28-30, 2018
Delmenhorst, Germany
SCORE: From Image Schemas to Cognitive Robotics: A formal framework and computational models for embodied simulations
First Meeting: July 23-26, 2018
University of Bremen, Germany
Modelling Conceptual Knowledge and Conceptual Change
First meeting: February 6-7, 2018
Delmenhorst, Germany
Attended Conferences:
FOIS 2024: Formal Ontology in Information Systems
University of Twente
Panel speaker
ICCC’24 – The 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity
Jönköping, Sweden
Local Chair
SCAI – The 14th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Jönköping, Sweden
Co-organiser
The workshop program at The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2023)
Rhodes, Greece
Workshop organiser
SAIS – the 35th Workshop of the Swedish AI Society
Karlskrona, Sweden
Co-organiser
ICCC’22 – The 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Program Chair
IACS-4 – The 4th Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics,
Aachen Germany (Virtual)
Presented: “The ontology of image schemas and the artificial mind”
The Sixth Image Schema Day 2022, Jönköping, Sweden
– Organiser
Presented: “Visualising Image Schemas: A Preliminary Look on the Diagrammatic Image schema Language (DISL)” and
“Getting On Top of Things: An Extended Abstract on Robotic Object Stacking using Image-Schematic Reasoning”
AI-Dagen – ELMIA, Jönköping, Sweden
– Invited Science expert
BOSK 2021 – Kolpinghaus, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
– FOIS@BOSK
– JOWO@BOSK
Co-organiser
– ICCS@BOSK
TriCoLore 2019 – Eurac, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Co-organiser
Presented: “Conceptual Puzzle Pieces”
CONTEXT 2019 – Trento, Italy
Presented: “Conceptual Puzzle Pieces”
TriCoLore 2018 – Eurac, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Local organiser
Presented: “What’s Cracking? How image schema combinations can model conceptualisations of events”
FOIS 2018 – Atlantic Imbizo Conference Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Chaired the early career symposium
ICCC 2018 – University of Salamanca, Spain
Presented: “Under the Super-Suit: What Superheroes Can Reveal About Inherited properties in Conceptual Blending”
AISC 2017 – University of Bologna
Title of the talk: “Image schemas as conceptual building blocks for everyday objects: an empirical study”
JOWO 2017 – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Shapes 4.0:
Presented: “Beneath the paint: a visual journey in conceptual metaphor violation”
Image Schema Day 3 (Organiser)
ICMC 2017 – University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Title of the talk: “Multi-modal image schemas”
AISB 2017 – University of Bath, UK
CAOS (at AISB) 2017 (Organiser)
From computational creativity to creativity science (September 19-22 ) 2016 – ZiF Bielefeld, Germany
ESSLLI 2016 – Bolzano, Italy
Image schema day II 2016 – Bolzano, Italy
Talk on image schemas
CAOS (at FOIS) 2016 – Annecy, France 6 July (Organiser)
Participated in talk held by Dagmar Gromann: “Breaking Down Finance”
RAaM 2016 – Berlin, Germany
Title of the talk: “Image schemas as a skeleton of concept invention and metaphor”
CogSciNiš 2016 – Niš, Serbia
Title of the talk: “Image schemas as conceptual building blocks”
KR 2016 – Cape Town, South Africa
Participated in the Doctorial Consortium, mentored by Frank Wolter.
Presented: Poster on image schemas in blending
DL 2016 (workshop) – Cape Town, South Africa
AISC 2015 – Genoa, Italy
CONTEXT 2015 – Lanarca, Cyprus
Shapes 3.0 (workshop):
Presented: “Shape up, Baby! Perception, image schemas and shapes in concept formation”
UNILOG 2015 – Istanbul, Turkey
Participated in the summer school on universal logic
C3GI (workshop):
Presented: “Image schemas as theories of families”
Computational creativity Week 2015 – London, UK
AIC (workshop) 2014 – Turin, Italy
Presented: “On the cognitive and logical role of image schemas in computational conceptual blending”
FOIS 2014 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Participated in the Doctorial Symposiuma, mentored by Nicholas Asrmr
Presented: Poster on image schemas
IAOA summer school
ICCC 2014 – Ljubljana, Slovenia