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Uta Noppeney

Uta’s research investigates the neural mechanisms of perceptual inference, learning, decision making, attention and probabilistic computations through a multisensory lens. She uses a multidisciplinary approach integrating psychophysics, computational modelling (Bayesian, neural network) and neuroimaging (fMRI, M/EEG) in humans.

She is a Professor of Systems Neuroscience at the Neurophysics department and a Principal Investigator at the Donders Centres for Cognitive Neuroimaging and Neuroscience within the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Netherlands). Previously, she was a Professor of Computational Neuroscience and the director of the Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre at the University of Birmingham (UK) and an independent research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen (Germany). She is the recipient of a Young Investigator Award of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in 2013, a Turing Fellowship in 2018 and two ERC grants in 2013 and 2023. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and an academic editor of PLOS Biology and Multisensory Research.

Ingmar Posner

Ingmar leads the Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab at Oxford University and was a Founding Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute. His research aims to enable machines to robustly act and interact in the real world - for, with, and alongside humans. With a significant track-record of contributions in machine perception and decision-making, Ingmar and his team are thinking about the next generation of robots that are flexible enough in their scene understanding, physical interaction and skill acquisition to learn and carry out new tasks. In doing so, they are exploring a number of intellectual challenges at the heart of robot learning, such as the use of world models for robot skill acquisition, planning and decision making, data efficient learning from demonstration, and machine introspection. His research is guided by a vision to create machines which constantly improve through experience. Ingmar is a co-founder of Oxa, a multi-award winning provider of mobile autonomy software solutions. He currently serves as an Amazon Scholar.