Research and Teaching

Academic Coursework

I have been a regular visiting lecturer at Hochschule Furtwangen University, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, since 2020. Bridging theory and hands-on practice around cutting-edge AI topics, I have developed and continue to teach various courses, including:

• Agentic Human-AI Collectives
• Human-Centric Conversational AI Experiences
• Voice AI

Scientific Research

During my time as a postgraduate researcher, I coauthored several peer-reviewed publications, mainly on information-theoretic approaches to speech recognition, signal fusion, and statistical signal processing.

Today, I conduct independent research on a reinterpretation of the influential Free Energy Principle and the theory of Active Inference as first proposed by neuroscientist Karl Friston. This work promises a coherent, first-principles theory of the mind that also offers a new take on the relationship between mind and matter, along with a deeper understanding of the nature of information itself. I am targeting key theoretical and practical challenges remaining in the current literature by taking inspiration from the study of ecosystems and collective intelligence. At the same time, I aim to derive practical implications for organizations and collectives, the human-AI relationship, governance and ethics, and for the design of viable civilizations (publications in preparation).