ABRI Seminar Thiemo Wambsganss 16 April 2024 16:00 - 17:00

Thiemo Wambsganss is a Tenure-Track Research Assistant Professor and director of the Human-Centered AI-based Systems (HAIS) Lab at Bern University of Applied Sciences in Bern Switzerland. His research lies in the general area of Human-Computer Interaction with influences from Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. He strives to understand how humans perceive, interact, and learn with intelligent tools. Based on these insights, he builds adaptive user interfaces that go beyond static and rule-based interaction to advance the capabilities when working and learning in the digital world. Specifically, he is driven by the vast opportunities to enhance and improve pedagogical scenarios based on recent advantages in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to enable humans to learn self-reliant and individually independent of an educator or their background. To do so, he uses techniques from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build AI-powered education tools. His research follows three connected main lines of work: 1) creating and studying pedagogical conversational agents or intelligent writing support systems to improve educational scenarios, 2) exploring methods and techniques to model student performance in textual data, and 3) building computational approaches that control when, where and how to provide students intelligent feedback and self-evaluation. More information through: https://thiemowa.github.io/