Intelligent Systems

The intelligent systems research area focuses on the applications and implementations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-based methods and techniques to address various organisational, business and societal problems and issues.

The concerted goal is to push the limits of intelligent tools and propose novel AI/machine learning constructs, models, methods, or instantiations with implications for human augmentation for economic and societal purposes. 

What We Do

Develop, improve, and apply machine learning models and algorithms to gain insights into solving industry-specific problems.

Construct and develop novel AI models, methods, or instantiations with implications for human augmentation.

Advance knowledge in AI management and governance.

Sub Areas

Our Research Projects

Investigating the Use of Productive Failure as a Design Paradigm for Learning Computational Thinking: A T-2-L (Technology to Learner) Approach

Suranga Chandima NANAYAKKARA

This project addresses the demand for Computational Thinking (CT) skills in K-12 education. It seeks to innovate CT learning experiences through evidence-based Productive Failure theory and develop an unobtrusive data collection framework using consumer devices to enhance understanding and validation of learning processes in programming classrooms.

  • Human-Machine Collaboration

The “Other Me”: Human-Centered AI Assistance In Situ

Atreyi KANKANHALLI

We propose an integrative program of fundamental research towards a vision in which every human will have an AI assistant for daily life and work. Our overall aim is to build conceptual understanding of human-AI collaboration, to develop representations, models, and algorithms for situated assistance, and to integrate them in an experimental device platform for evaluation.

  • Human Augmentation and Automation, Human-Machine Collaboration

Augmented Awareness through Scene Sonification

Suranga Chandima NANAYAKKARA

People with visual impairments (PVI) struggle with spatial awareness due to a lack of awareness of distant scenes. While existing technologies sonify individual objects for near-field awareness, the study explores the usability of AI-generated sounds for communicating far-field scenes to the blind, aiming to enhance spatial awareness and orientation for PVI.

  • Human Augmentation and Automation

iTILES: Independent Living, Tile by Tile

Suranga Chandima NANAYAKKARA

iTILES is a playware system that combines interactive tiles, mobile apps, and data analytics to improve users' functional and cognitive abilities through engaging gameplay. It collects data through multi-sensory inputs and provides therapists and users with actionable insights to optimize their rehabilitation journey.

  • Machine Translation

Explainable Risk Models for Heterogeneous Patient Populations in Critical Care

Vaibhav RAJAN

This project aims to improve the accuracy and explainability of clinical risk prediction (e.g., of unforeseen adverse events) in critical care by explicitly modeling underlying heterogeneous subpopulations and through the use of auxiliary knowledge.


Our Research Groups

Augmented Human Lab

Suranga Chandima NANAYAKKARA

The vision of the Augmented Human Lab is to humanise technology. We design intelligent human computer interfaces that feel like natural extensions of our bodies & minds, with the aim of extending the limits of our perceptual and cognitive capabilities.