AI researcher and roboticist by training. Michael Spranger has contributed research on robotics and construction of autonomous robot systems including research on robot perception, world modeling and behavior control.
He has also made contributions to AI and Machine Learning (ML) areas including Natural Language Processing as well as more exotic topics including artificial language evolution. His skills and research interest within AI, ML and robotics are broad and range from extensive knowledge in symbolic processing to ML to motor control. His research has been published in top venues in AI such as IJCAI to top venues in ML, e.g., NeurIPS to top venues in Robotics, e.g. IROS. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and several patents. He is active in the AI community, ML, developmental robotics, and computational linguistics.