My research interests are mainly artificial intelligence applied in robotics. More particularly, I am very interested into computational neuroscience, in order to devise models of human and animal behaviors, such as memory and learning, movement generation, real-time audio and visual processing, and sensory-motor coordination using multimodal information integration.
More generally, I am very interested in swarm intelligence and science of complexity. I truly believe that there is no magic or cosmic forces behind the complexity of nature. Intelligence is just a relative criteria, and the highly complex behavior that can be observed in most living organisms, as for example self-organization in insect societies or efficient of human cognitive mechanisms, simply emerge from local interactions between a large amount of very simple agents (insects or neurons) with very limited behavior.
Projects
I’ve worked with Prof. A. Martinoli and Prof. C. Taylor on audio source localization using different algorithms, implemented on sensor networks, with an interest on the developement of collaborative signal processing algorithms. Also, I have worked on adaptation of speech recognition systems to recognize bird species and individuals, using several audio features.
In parallel, I have collaborated with Ludovic Righetti, Jonas Buchli and Prof. Ijspeert at the BIRG on the development of models of associative memory based on systems of coupled non-linear oscillators.
