Mareike Picklum

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Tel: –49 -421 218 64010
Fax: –49 -421 218 64047
Room: TAB 1.77
Mail: mareikep(at)cs[dot]uni-bremen[dot]de

About

I studied Computer Science at the University of Bremen (UoB) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and received my Master's degree in 2015. I wrote my Master's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Michael Beetz at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the UoB addressing the problem of recognizing objects based on natural-language descriptions using graphical probabilistic models. I started my PhD in March 2015 in which I continue working with probabilistic models.

My work focuses on natural-language understanding and instruction interpretation to extract knowledge and use it to generate plans that can be executed by autonomous robotic systems.

I am a contributor in the projects pracmln and PRAC. In particular, I developed the publicly available web services PRACWeb, inviting users to have a look at the PRAC system in operation and WebMLN allowing users to try out inference and learning algorithms of the pracmln system.

Since February 2017 I am part of the initiative 'Farbige Zustände' (CRC 1232) which aims at the development of a novel experimental method for the development of materials. Within this collaborative research centre, I work on a prototype and feasibility study for an intelligent cognitive software assistant that supports the work of material scientists in designing new materials.

Teaching

  • AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation (WS2017/18) (Tutorial/Co-Lecturer)
  • Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (SS2017) (Tutorial)
  • AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation (WS2016/17) (Tutorial)
  • Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (SS2016) (Tutorial)
  • AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation (WS2015/16) (Tutorial)
  • Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (SS2015) (Tutorial)

Supervised Theses

  • Crowdsourcing Instruction Data for Statistical Relational Learning (Bachelor's Thesis, Kevin Scheck)

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[1]Mareike Picklum and Michael Beetz, "MatCALO: Knowledge-enabled machine learning in materials science", In Computational Materials Science, vol. 163, pp. 50 - 62, 2019. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
Conference Papers
[2]Daniel Nyga, Mareike Picklum and Michael Beetz, "What No Robot Has Seen Before – Probabilistic Interpretation of Natural-language Object Descriptions", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. [bibtex] [url]
[3]Daniel Nyga, Mareike Picklum, Sebastian Koralewski and Michael Beetz, "Instruction Completion through Instance-based Learning and Semantic Analogical Reasoning", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. [bibtex] [url]
[4]Pomarlan, Mihai, Nyga, Daniel, Picklum, Mareike, Koralewski, Sebastian and Beetz, Michael, "Deeper Understanding of Vague Instructions through Simulated Execution (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2017. [bibtex] [pdf]
[5]Daniel Nyga, Mareike Picklum, Tom Schierenbeck and Michael Beetz, "Joint Probability Trees", In Arxiv.org, 2023. Preprint [bibtex] [url]





Prof. Dr. hc. Michael Beetz PhD
Head of Institute

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Andrea Cowley
assistant to Prof. Beetz
ai-office@cs.uni-bremen.de

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