Digital Einstein
An embodied conversational AI agent bringing Albert Einstein back to life through multimodal interaction — combining speech synthesis, facial animation, and cognitive reasoning. …
Selected Projects
Affective Computing & Emotion Recognition
Multimodal deep learning systems for affective state prediction from smartphone sensors, biometric data, egocentric vision, and physiological signals — enabling real-world …
Personality & Cognitive Architectures for Conversational Agents
Deep learning-based cognitive frameworks that enable conversational agents to maintain consistent personality, beliefs, values, and emotional states across extended interactions — …
Facial Animation Synthesis
Efficient transformer-based pipelines for text-driven and speech-driven 3D facial animation — achieving real-time performance through phoneme-level speech modeling and contrastive …
Dialog Act Classification
Multimodal dialog act classification for conversations with digital characters — interpreting the communicative intent of user utterances to drive appropriate agent responses in …
Virtual Psychotherapist
Embodied conversational agents for mental health support, developed in partnership with Prof. Andrew Gloster (University of Lucerne). The project comprises a patient-facing …
RehaBot
An embodied AI avatar representing a medical professional, capable of conducting patient interactions, health assessments, and health education in rehabilitation and home-care …
MIND — Cognitive Health Monitoring
A mobile AI platform for early detection of cognitive impairment in aging populations, integrating Large Geospatial Models for movement analysis, LLMs for conversational cognitive …