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Our reasearch areas

Research in PR[AI]RIE is organized in a double helix with two intertwined threads: (a) core AI methodological research, and (b) interdisciplinary work at the interface with sciences and applications.

Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems cover a wide range of techniques from games to voting theory. Various algorithms and mathematical theories are used in these domains.

Biomedical Imaging

Biomedical image analysis plays a crucial role in life sciences and healthcare, enabling researchers and clinicians to extract valuable insights from vast amounts of visual data. 

Clinical decision support

Clinical Decision Support systems refer to as a specific type of algorithms designed to assist healthcare professionals in making clinical decisions.

Cognition

Since the earliest days of Artificial Intelligence, the study of human cognition has played an important role. The very first working code presented at the Dartmouth…

Computer vision

Computer vision is the part of AI concerned with the automated interpretation of digital imagery, with very strong links with machine learning, natural image understanding and robotics…

Data science

The Data Sciences Group at PRAIRIE is a dedicated team of experts specializing in the field of machine learning and its applications in health sciences and medical imaging.

Genomics

The research themes of the PRAIRIE Genomics researchers coalesce around the exploration and application of machine learning in genomics, with a particular focus…

Machine learning and optimization

Machine learning is the core algorithmic component behind recent successes in artificial intelligence, relying on training models with vast amounts of data.

Natural language processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is at the intersection between linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence. 

Networked data management

The Networked Data Management group comprises a dedicated team of researchers specializing in various fields, including software verification, representation learning, distributed algorithms, and large-scale data management.

Robotics

From humanoid robots that could only walk on flat floors in the 2000’s, we have stepped within two decades to humanoid athletes…

Statistical physics

One of the major research lines in the PRAIRIE groups working at the interface of statistical physics and machine learning…