About
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kopp is a faculty member at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Engineering and serves as Research Group Leader of the Cognitive Systems and Social Interaction Group. He also holds administrative roles as Vice Dean and Deputy CITEC Coordinator. His work focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Systems, and Socio-Technical World research areas.
- Research Group Leader: Cognitive Systems and Social Interaction Group
- Vice Dean: Faculty of Engineering
- Deputy Coordinator: Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
- Project Manager: TRR 318 "Constructing Explainability" subprojects
His research explores human-agent interaction, multimodal conversational agents, and social AI through projects like 39-Inf-11 Human-Machine Interaction and 39-M-Inf-VKI Virtual Humans and Conversational Agents. Publications address topics including adaptive explanation generation, gesture synthesis, and social cognition in dynamic environments. Current research topics span cooperative AI, explainable decision-making, and sensorimotor grounding in artificial systems.