The Team

Patrick Ebel

PhD, Assistant Professor




Research Interests:

  • Computational User Modeling
  • Data-Driven UI Evaluation
  • Naturalistic Driving Studies

Christine Buckley

Office Assistant





Research Interests:

  • Family
  • Sports
  • Cooking

Martin Lorenz

MSc, PhD Student




Research Interests:

  • Human Multitasking Behavior
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Situation Awareness

Michal Patryk Miazga

MSc, PhD Student




Research Interests:

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Biomechanical Modeling

Jan Hilbert

MSc, PhD Student





Research Interests:

  • Data-Driven UI Evaluation
  • Naturalistic Driving Studies

Christopher Akiki

MSc, PhD Student




Research Interests:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Data Representation and Visualization

Celine Conzen

BSc, Student Assistant





Research Interests:

  • Mixed-Reality Driving Simulation
  • Large Language Models
  • Reinforcement Learning

Anton Gasse

Student Assistant





Research Interests:

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Situation Awareness

Theodor Pollack

BeLL Student (Besondere Lernleistung)





Research Interests:

  • Unity Development
  • Reinforcement Learning

Alumni

Timur Getselev

Student Assistant





Research Interests:

  • MR Driving Simulation
  • Large Language Models

Tami Oni-Orisan

Trainee





Research Interests:

  • Unity Development
  • MR Driving Simulation

Hannah Bussmann

BSc, Student Assistant





Research Interests:

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Biomechanical Modeling

Juliette-Michelle Burkhardt

BSc, Student Assistant





Research Interests:

  • Mixed-Reality Driving Simulation

Bachelor and Master Students

Ongoing

  • Anton Gasse: Modeling Visual Sampling Processes via Computational Rationality (Bachelor Thesis)

Finished

  • Hannah Bussmann: Simulating Human-Like Touch Interactions Through RL-based Biomechanical Modeling (Master Thesis, 2025)
  • Simon Lämmer: GTA: Generative Traffic Agents for Simulating Realistic Traffic Behavior (Master Thesis, 2025)
  • Niko Konzack: A Computationally Rational Model of Human Visual Sampling for Atari Games (Master Thesis, 2025)
  • Georg Schneeberger: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning Training of a Convolutional Neural Network for Autonmous Driving (Master Thesis, 2024)
  • Moritz Wörmann: Generating Aesthetic UI Alternatives under Constraints (Bachelor Thesis, 2024)