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I am a Principal Scientist at the Honda Research Institute
Europe, Germany, Scientific Coordinator of the Graduate School,
Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab), Bielefeld
University, Germany, and Visiting Professor, Natural Inspired Computation
and Applications Laboratory (NICAL) , University of Science and Technology of China, China.
My primary research interests include computational approaches to
a system-level understanding of evolution, learning and development in
biology, and bio-inspired methodologies for complex engineered systems.
Relevant research fields cover artificial life, computational
intelligence, computational systems biology and computational
neuroscience. More specifically, I am working on the following research
topics:
- Computational intelligence
- Artificial life, computational systems biology,
morphogenetic engineered systems
- Computational modeling of gene regulation and cellular mechanisms underlying
biological morphogenesis, computational modeling of developmental
systems
- Brain-body co-evolution and development; major transitions in the
evolution of primitive nervous systems
- Evolvability and robustness analysis of gene regulatory networks;
in silico synthesis of gene regulatory dynamics
- Morphogenetic robotics, evolutionary developmental
robotics (evo-devo-robo), morphogenetic structural design
- Computational evolutionary, developmental and cognitive neuroscience
- Memory self-organization and autonomous learning, neuromodulation and neural plasticity, feedback
- Cognitive components in sensorimotor adaptation, brain-machine interface for
human-robot interaction
- Activity-independent and activity-dependent neural development
- Evolution of cognitive components
I
currently serve as an Associate Editor of BioSystems, the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions
on Neural Networks, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews.
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