Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, East Germany) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems.[1]
Joscha Bach | |
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Born | Weimar, Germany | December 21, 1973
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin (MA) Osnabrück University (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence Computer Science |
Institutions | Intel AI Foundation Harvard MIT Media Lab |
Thesis | Principles of Synthetic Intelligence; Building Blocks for an Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Dietrich Dörner Kai-Uwe Kühnberger |
Website | bach |
Bach was born and grew up in East Germany. His parents are architect and artist Jochen Bach, and Gisa Bach. He is part of the Bach family.[2]
He received an MA (computer science) from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2000 and a PhD (cognitive science) from Osnabrück University in 2006.[3][4][5][6]
Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.[7]
He then joined AI Foundation, working as VP of Research.[6] Between March 2021 and January 2023, he was a Principal AI Engineer at Intel Labs Cognitive Computing group.[8] He currently serves on AI Foundation's Advisory Council.[9]
Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending representations of the Psi-theory with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labeling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval.[10][11][12]
Bach is the author of around 25 academic publications,[13] and has written a book on cognitive science called Principles of Synthetic Intelligence.[14][15]
He has also worked extensively on novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models.[16][failed verification]
Between 2013 and 2017, Bach was attributed research funding by Jeffrey Epstein charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[17][18][19]