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Mehul Bhatt

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Personal Information

Title Dr.
Function Principal Investigator
Office 3.56
Phone 64237
eMail bhatt

Profession

About me

I am a researcher in the Cognitive Systems (CoSy) group within the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Bremen, Germany. I am also a member of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition that is based at the University of Bremen, and University of Freiburg. From 2002 - 2007, i was based at the Department of Computer Science at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Up until 2001, i was in Mumbai (Bombay) India, where i did my basic schooling in Commerce and Economics (BCOM) at the Narsee Monjee College (NMC) of Commerce and Economics.

Websitehttp://tinyurl.com/mehul-bhatt

All Publications.  http://tinyurl.com/bhatt-publications

(links to some of the papers below may be broken on this page: please refer to the Publications page above instead)

Grants
  • AvH 2008. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Host: SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
  • DAAD 2007. Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates and Young Scientists and Academics. DAAD, Germany. Host: SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
  • APA 2004. Australian Post-Graduate Award (APA), Australian Commonwealth
  • NICTA 2002. National ICT (NICTA) Research Scholarship, Australia. Host: UNSW Sydney
News
  • DW-World TV Feature. Profiled in the Deutsche Welle (DW-World) TV program `Today Tomorrow' in the segment, Brilliant Minds. www
  • Award Nomination 2011. Nominated as the University of Bremen candidate for the German Research Foundation (DFG) Award: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2011
  • Press Release. Highlights Magazine, University of Bremen. www
Interests

Core topical areas of work:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Cognitive Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Spatio-Temporal Information Systems
  • Medical Information Systems

Basic topics of research:

  • Cognitive, and Spatial Assistance Systems
  • Spatial Cognition (focussing on representational and computational aspects)
  • Qualitative Spatial Reasoning (QSR)
  • Reasoning about Actions & Change (RAC)
  • Commonsense Reasoning (CR)
  • Applied Ontology (e.g., in Design, Engineering, Medical Informatics, GIS)
  • Experimental Cognitive Robotics
  • Learning Spatial Representations
  • Computer Human Interaction, Interaction Design and Simulation
  • Ambient Intelligence, (Spatial) Assistance Systems
  • Distributed Systems: Middleware & Interoperability Issues

Application areas:

  • Spatial and Architectural Design; Design Assistance Tools
  • Computer-Aided Architecture Design (CAAD), Product and Design Engineering
  • High-level Robot Control
  • Behaviour Interpretation and Analyses in Ambient and Smart Environments
  • Dynamic Geographic Information Systems
  • Medical Informatics (semantic modelling, search and retrieval)
Research Projects

 

Teaching

Summer Semester 2012

  • Commonsense Spatial Reasoning. SS 2012 (details TBA)
  • Project AUGMENT: Augmented Interaction and Analysis for Spatial Design. www

Winter Semester 2011-12

  • Experimental Cognitive Robotics WS 2011-2012. www
  • From Syllogism to Commonsense: A Tour through the Logical Landscape WS 2011-12. www

Summer Semester 2011

  • Spatial Computing for Design (SPaDe) SS 2011.
  • Behaviour Recognition in Ambient and Smart Environments (Be-AmI) 2011
Events Organized

All Eventshttp://tinyurl.com/bhatt-events

  • SHAPES 2.0 - The Shape of Things 2013. UniLog 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 27th Qualitative Reasoning (QR) Workshop 2013, Schloss Etelsen, Bremen, Germany
  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDy) 2012. ECAI-12, Montpellier, France
  • Tutorial+Workshop: Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA) 2012.
  • Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design 2011, New York, USA
  • SHAPES 1.0: The Shape of Things (CONTEXT 2011), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI) 2011, at IJCAI-11, Barcelona, Spain
  • Recognising Behaviour in a Spatio-Temporal Context 2011 (Tutorial), at AAAI-11, San Fransisco, US
  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDy) 2010, ECAI-10, Lisbon Portugal
  • Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI) 2009, at COSIT-09, France
  • Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, 2009, at IJCAI, Pasadena, US
curriculum vitae

 

 

Publications

To Appear

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2008

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    2008
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    Modelling Dynamic Spatial Systems in the Situation Calculus
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    Spatial Cognition and Computation
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    vol. 8
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    1
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    pages 86-130
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    1387-5868
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    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a793375259~db=all~jumptype=rss
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    2008
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    {(Some)} {D}efault and Non-Monotonic Aspects of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
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    AAAI-08 Technical Reports, Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
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    page 1-6
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    AAAI Press
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    Menlo Park, CA
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    978-1-57735-379-9
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    2008
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    Dynamical Spatial Systems—A Potential Approach for the Application of Qualitative Spatial Calculi
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    Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 15-17, 2008, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA
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    pages 580-585
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    AAAI Press
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    Menlo Park, CA
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    978-1-57735-365-2