STEM Faculty

Stefan Rueger

Emeritus Professor

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Latest news

Congratulations to Dr Shuang Ao on successfully defending her PhD

08 Nov 2024

KMi is thrilled to announce that Shuang Ao has successfully defended her PhD on 22 October 2024. Her thesis, titled…

Farewell to Prof Stefan Rueger: a reflection on his legacy…

09 Sep 2024

This past Tuesday, KMi announced Prof. Stefan Rueger’s retirement; we all gathered to celebrate his contributions to computer science and…

KMi and EEES at Howe Park Wood

15 Jul 2022

The OU’s Citizen Science and AI Research group had a stand at the Parks Trust Love Nature event on the 4th…

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Latest publications

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Colucci-Gyay, L., Hancock, J., Manches, A., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Dodd, M., Ansine, J., Bowers, L., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2025, ‘To touch is to know’: haptic inquiry for primary school citizen science’, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 15(3), pp. 360–376., https://oro.open.ac.uk/104267/.
Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Robinson, A., Newman, J., Van der Wal, R., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2024, ‘Image Recognition as a ‘Dialogic AI Partner’ within Biodiversity Citizen Science - an empirical investigation’, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 9(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/99851/.
Ao, S., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2024, ‘CSS: Contrastive Semantic Similarities for Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs’, in 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2024), 15-19 Jul 2024, Barcelona, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/100908/.
Colucci-Gray, L., Hancock, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Manches, A., Bowers, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Mozier, S., Newman, J., Reuger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2024, ‘Seeing with hands and touching with eyes: recovering sensorial attention to nature in primary schools’, in First International Conference on Embodied Education, 15-17 May 2024, Danish School of Education (DPU), Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97621/.
Hancock, J., Colucci-Gray, L., Siddharthan, A., Manches, A., Sharma, N., Islam, R., Bowers, L., Reuger, S., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Mozier, S. and Barry, R., 2023, ‘“We felt the textures from nature and it gave us new ideas”: Investigating sustainability education through primary school children’s natural and digital haptic touch explorations’, in SERA Conference 2023, Wednesday 22 - Friday 24 Nov 2023, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, United Kingdom., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97619/.
Ao, S., Rueger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2023, ‘Two Sides of Miscalibration: Identifying Over and Under-Confidence Prediction for Network Calibration’, in Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 31 Jul - 4 Aug 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA., https://oro.open.ac.uk/94356/.
Ansine, J., Dodd, M., Valentine, C., Rüger, S., Siddharthan, A. and Dadswell, D., 2023, ‘iSpot & AI: Integrating FASTCAT-Cloud and PI@ntNET-API in the Cos4Cloud framework’, in Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) Conference 2023, 27-30 Jun 2023, Online., https://oro.open.ac.uk/100413/.
Ao, S., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2023, ‘Empirical Optimal Risk to Quantify Model Trustworthiness for Failure Detection’, in 2023 IJCAI Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety and Safe Reinforcement Learning, AISafety-SafeRL, 21-22 Aug 2023, Macau, China., https://oro.open.ac.uk/94378/.
Lakeman Fraser, P., Colluci-Gray, L., Robinson, A., Sforzi, A., Staples-Rolf, R., Newman, J., Gill, R., Sharma, N., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2023, ‘X-Polli:Nation: Contributing towards sustainable development goals through school-based pollinator citizen science’, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/86427/.
Ao, S., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2022, ‘Confidence-Aware Calibration and Scoring Functions for Curriculum Learning’, in 2022 15th International Conference on Machine Vision., 18-20 Nov 2022, Rome, Italy., https://oro.open.ac.uk/87157/.

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