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WASP Researcher of the Month - Yufei Zhu

Researcher of the Month is Yufei Zhu, doctoral student in Computer Science at the Robot Navigation & Perception Lab. Yufei Zhu defended her thesis "Spatio-Temporal Representations of Human Dynamics for Motion Prediction and Robot Navigation" on October...

WASP Researcher of the Month - Alberto Giaretta

Researcher of the Month is Alberto Giaretta, Associate Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. Giaretta recently gave his Docent Lecture, and we asked him to answer a few questions, to get to know him and his research.

David Baxter Presents Research at IEEE OES AUV Symposium 2026

WASP Researcher of the Month - Stephanie Lowry

Researcher of the Month is Stephanie Lowry, Assistant Professor in Computer Science. Stephanie Lowry recently gave her Docent Lecture, and we asked her to answer a few questions, to get to know her and her research.

Old methods can make AI more reliable

Today’s AI tools do not truly reason. To make ChatGPT and similar systems smarter, the solution might be to rely on more traditional methods that have been used for decades.

Rishi Hazra Successfully Defends PhD Thesis on Neurosymbolic Decision-Making with LLMs

On 10 October, Rishi Hazra successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “Neurosymbolic Decision-Making with Large Language Models” at Örebro University. The defense was met with unanimous praise from the jury.