Olaf is a post-doctoral researcher at Ikegami Lab. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo, Japan.
His main topic of investigation is swarm intelligence and the emergence of integrated/cooperative cognition, based on recent techniques from evolutionary robotics and information theory.
In particular, he worked on the problems of Swarm Ethics, the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma, the Evolution of Language, Distributed Cognition and Deep Learning.
He originally graduated as an Civil Engineer from the University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. His first background was Artificial Intelligence. He successively has been a research fellow at the Information Systems Research Group (UCL), the NLP Research Group (University of Sheffield, UK), then the Tsujii Lab (University of Tokyo, Japan). During that period, he contributed to different Machine Learning projects: the Khipu Research Group, Tweetag.com, GATE and U-Compare.
CV PublicationsOlaf also enjoys Ethiopian food, bouldering, improvized jam sessions, composing klezmer tunes, discussing science and philosophy, history, phenomenology, coding in OZ, debating on time travel related movies, sketching his imaginary friends and playing the awesome game of Go.
olaf dot witkowski at gmail dot com