Dr. Jochen Kerdels

Dr. Jochen Kerdels

E-Mail: jochen.kerdels

Phone: (+49) 2331 987-4187

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Research Interests

• Information processing in the parahippocampal-hippocampal region of the mammalian brain
• Functional modeling of cells in the parahippocampal-hippocampal region, especially entorhinal grid cells and hippocampal place cells
• Episodic and procedural memory in neuronal systems
• Discovery of structure in high-dimensional data using unsupervised learning
• Exploratory modeling and simulation of complex systems
• Mobile robotics / underwater robotics

Curriculum Vitae

• since 2016: Postdoctoral Scientist at the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Peters), FernUniversität in Hagen
• 2016: Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, topic of the doctoral thesis "A Computational Model of Grid Cells based on a Recursive Growing Neural Gas" (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Peters and Prof. Dr. Laurenz Wiskott)
• 2010-2016: Doctoral Research Assistant at the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Peters), FernUniversität in Hagen
• 2006-2009: Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Bremen
• 2001-2004: Student Assistant at the Robotics Research Institute (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Freund), TU Dortmund University
• 1999-2006: Studies of Computer Science, TU Dortmund University, topic of the diploma thesis "Dynamisches Lernen von Nachbarschaften zwischen Merkmalsgruppen zum Zwecke der Objekterkennung" (Prof. Dr. Heinrich Müller)
• 1996-2001: Co-founder and associate of the company "dimension 4" working in 3D computer graphics and user interface design, Nettetal

Publications

• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  Modelling the Grid-like Encoding of Visual Space in Primates,
  8th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA 2016), Porto, Portugal, November 9-11, 2016.
  ► best paper award
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  Noise Resilience of an RGNG-based Grid Cell Model,
  8th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA 2016), Porto, Portugal, November 9-11, 2016.
  ► nominated for best paper award
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  A Sparse Representation of High-Dimensional Input Spaces Based on an Augmented Growing Neural Gas,
  2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2016), Berlin, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2016.
• Jochen Kerdels,
  A Computational Model of Grid Cells based on a Recursive Growing Neural Gas,
  Dissertation, FernUniversität in Hagen, 2016.
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  Analysis of High-Dimensional Data Using Local Input Space Histograms,
  Neurocomputing, Vol. 169, pp. 272-280, 2015.
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  A New View on Grid Cells Beyond the Cognitive Map Hypothesis,
  Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2015), LNCS 9205, Springer, pp. 283-292, Berlin, Germany, July 22-25, 2015.
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  Clustering hochdimensionaler Daten,
  Informatik Spektrum, Springer, Vol. 38(4), cover art, p. 335, 2015.
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  Supporting GNG-based Clustering with Local Input Space Histograms,
  Proceedings of the 22nd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2014), i6doc.com publ., pp. 559-564, Bruges, Belgium, April 23-25, 2014.
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  A Computational Model of Grid Cells based on Dendritic Self-Organized Learning,
  Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2013), (International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA 2013)), SciTePress, pp. 420-429, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 20-22, 2013.
  ► nominated for best paper award
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  Exploratory Modeling of Complex Information Processing Systems,
  10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2013), SciTePress, pp. 514-521, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 29-31, 2013.
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  A Generalized Computational Model for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems,
  Research Report 4/2012, FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany, 2012.
• Jan Albiez, Marc Hildebrandt, Jochen Kerdels, and Frank Kirchner,
  Automatic Workspace Analysis and Vehicle Adaptation for Hydraulic Underwater Manipulators,
  OCEANS 2009 - MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, MS, USA, October 26-29, 2009.
• Marc Hildebrandt, Jochen Kerdels, Jan Albiez, and Frank Kirchner,
  A Multi-Layered Controller Approach for High Precision End-Effector Control of Hydraulic Underwater Manipulator Systems,
  OCEANS 2009 - MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, MS, USA, October 26-29, 2009.
• Marc Hildebrandt, Leif Christensen, Jochen Kerdels, Jan Albiez, and Frank Kirchner,
  Realtime Motion Compensation for ROV-based Tele-operated Underwater Manipulators,
  OCEANS 2009 - EUROPE, Bremen, Germany, May 11-14, 2009.
• Marc Hildebrandt, Jochen Kerdels, Jan Albiez, and Frank Kirchner,
  A Practical Underwater 3D-Laserscanner,
  OCEANS 2008 - IEEE, Quebec City, QC, Kanada, September 15-18, 2008.
• Marc Hildebrandt, Jochen Kerdels, Jan Albiez, and Frank Kirchner,
  Robust Vision-Based Semi-Autonomous Underwater Manipulation,
  The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-10), IOS Press, pp. 308-315, Baden-Baden, Germany, July 23-25, 2008.
• Jochen Kerdels, Jan Albiez, and Frank Kirchner,
  Sensorless Computer Control of an Underwater DC Manipulator,
  OCEANS 2008 - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Ocean, Kobe, Japan, April 8-11, 2008.
• Jochen Kerdels, Jan Albiez, and Frank Kirchner,
  A Robust Vision Based Hover Control for ROV,
  OCEANS 2008 - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Ocean, Kobe, Japan, April 8-11, 2008.
• Jan Albiez, Jochen Kerdels, Sascha Fechner, and Frank Kirchner,
  Sensor Proccessing and Behaviour Control of a Small AUV,
  Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2007) - 20. Fachgespräch Kaiserslautern, pp. 327-333, Springer, October 18-19, 2007.
• Sascha Fechner, Jochen Kerdels, Jan Albiez, and Frank Kirchner,
  Design of a µAUV,
  Proceedings of the 4th International AMiRE Symposium (AMiRE-2007), Buenos Aires, Argentinien, October 2-5, 2007.
  ► best paper award
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  A Topology-Independent Similarity Measure for High-Dimensional Feature Spaces,
  International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2007), LNCS 4669, Springer, pp. 331-340, Porto, Portugal, September 9-13, 2007.
• Gabriele Peters and Jochen Kerdels,
  Image Segmentation Based on Height Maps,
  12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2007), LNCS 4673, Springer, pp. 612-619, Vienna, Austria, August 27-29, 2007.
• Dirk Spenneberg, Jan Albiez, Frank Kirchner, Jochen Kerdels, and Sascha Fechner,
  C-Manipulator: An Autonomous Dual Manipulator Project for Underwater Inspection and Maintenance,
  ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic (OMAE 2007), pp. 437-443, San Diego, USA, June 9-15, 2007.
• Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters,
  Höhenbildbasierte Segmentierung,
  Informatik Spektrum, Springer, Vol. 30(1), cover art, pp. 47-48, 2007.
• Jochen Kerdels,
  Dynamisches Lernen von Nachbarschaften zwischen Merkmalsgruppen zum Zwecke der Objekterkennung,
  Diploma Thesis, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Dortmund, Germany, 2006.
• Ingo Dahm, Matthias Hebbel, Matthias Huelsbusch, Jochen Kerdels, Walter Nistico, Carsten Schumann, and Michael Wachter,
  Decentral Control of a Robot-Swarm,
  Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2005), pp. 347-351, IEEE Computer Society, April 4-8, 2005.
• Ingo Dahm, Matthias Hebbel, Matthias Huelsbusch, Jochen Kerdels, Walter Nistico, and Uwe Schwiegelshohn,
  Task Scheduling in a Team of Robots,
  Technical Report, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, University of Dortmund, Germany, 2005.
• Jens Ziegler, Ingo Dahm, Mathias Hülsbusch, and Jochen Kerdels,
  Virtual Robot - Adaptive Ressource Management in Robot Teams,
  8th RoboCup World Championship, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004.
• Ingo Dahm, Matthias Hebbel, Walter Nistico, Christoph Richter, Jens Ziegler, Damien Deom, Jörn Hamerla, Mathias Hülsbusch, Jochen Kerdels, Thomas Kindler, Hyung-Won Koh, Tim Lohmann, Manuel Neubach, Claudius Rink, Andreas Rossbacher, Frank Roßdeutscher, Bernd Schmidt, Carsten Schumann, and Pascal Serwe,
  Virtual Robot: Automatic Analysis of Situations and Management of Resources in a Team of Soccer Robots, Final Report PG 442,
  Technical Report, Vol. 304, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, University of Dortmund, Germany, 2004.

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