Christian Wagner

Links

• PhD Studentship Available
• Research Project Ideas

Research

My main research interests are centered around approximate reasoning. Humans excel at reasoning in the face of uncertain (incomplete, vague,...) information and it is the capturing of this ability in artificial systems that holds great promise for a variety of applications from robotics to (the interpretation of) crowd-sourcing and affective computing. I am particularly interested in Computational Intelligence, specifically in the theory and application of (general type-2) fuzzy sets & systems as well as fuzzy measures and integrals. In terms of applications, I am interested in the modelling, aggregation of and reasoning on different sources of uncertain information in the contexts of crowd-sourcing, robotics, ambient intelligent environments (smart homes), affective computing and more generally - applications where reasoning over qualitative information (e.g. sourced from people) and quantitive (measured) information is required.

Teaching & Supervision

• 1st Supervisor - Jabran Hussain Aladi
• 2nd Supervisor - Diman Siddiq Hassan
• 2nd Supervisor - Christos Themistocleous

Current Projects

• PI: Affective Computing (Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute) (~180000£)
• CI: Becoming Dataware (Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute)

Esteem

General:

• Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
• Vice-Chair of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Affective Computing

Conferences and Journals:

• Tutorial on Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 2012.
• Special Session Co-Organiser & Chair (Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Theory) at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 2012.
• Special Session Co-Organiser & Chair (Computational Intelligence for the Digital Economy) at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 2012.
• Special Session Co-Organiser & Chair at the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2011.
• Publication Chair, UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2010, Colchester, UK, September 2010.
• Special Session Co-Organiser & Chair at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2010, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010.
• Invited "Panelist", Panel on the Future of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, London, UK, June 2010
• Special Session Co-Organiser & Chair at the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2009, Jeju, Korea, August 2009
• Participation in the Tutorial on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Type-2 Fuzzy Systems at the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2009, Jeju, Korea, August 2009.

• Program Committee Member at a variety of international conferences including (since 2010):
  •    World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 2012.
  •    International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2011.
  •    International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, Conference on Fuzzy Computation 2011, Paris, France, October 2011.
  •    International Conference on Fuzzy Computation 2010, Valencia, Spain, October 2010.
  •    UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2010, Colchester, UK, September 2010.
  •    World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2010, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010.
  •    North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society 2010, Toronto, Canada, July 2010.
  

• Reviewer for a variety of International Journals, including the International Journal of Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems,...

Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Research Group, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK.