Hi, I'm Christian Gumbsch. I'm a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam working with Stratis Gavves. Previously, I did my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and University of Tübingen jointly supervised by Georg Martius and Martin Butz, followed by a postdoc at the TU Dresden working with Katharina von Kriegstein.
Research interest
I am fascinated by the question of how humans and other animals learn adaptive goal-directed behavior from their experience. My research goal is to help the development of autonomous embodied agents with a similar skillset. To work towards this goal, I follow two research directions:
1. AI research: I research how to improve decision-making in deep learning agents. More specifically, I work towards agents that explore interesting behavior, plan far into the future, and can reuse their knowledge in new situations. This includes research on generalization, temporal abstraction, world models, and intrinsic motivation.
2. Cognitive modeling: I use the same methods to build computational cognitive models. Here I hope to shine light into the mechanisms and representations that give rise to the adaptive behavior of humans. This includes modeling event segmentation, epistemic gaze behavior, and multimodal speech processing.