Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
prof. Ing. Igor Farkaš, Dr.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Farkaš
I.2 - Name
Igor
I.3 - Degrees
prof. Ing., Dr.
I.4 - Year of birth
1968
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Faculty of mathematics, physics and informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Mlynská dolina, 84248 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
professor
I.8 - E-mail address
igor.farkas@fmph.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4545
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
informatics
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0003-3503-2080

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
II.b - Year
1991
II.c - Study field and programme
tecnical cybernetics
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
II.b - Year
1995
II.c - Study field and programme
applied informatics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of mathematics, physics and informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2007
II.c - Study field and programme
informatics
II.5 - Professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of mathematics, physics and informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2014
II.c - Study field and programme
informatics
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
professor FMFI Comenius University in Bratislava since 2014
associate professor (docent) FMFI Comenius University in Bratislava since 2007
assistant professor FMFI Comenius University in Bratislava since 2003
postdoc University of Richmond, VA, USA 2000 - 2003
researcher Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences 1995 - 1999

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Introduction to computational intelligence cognitive science 2. informatics
2. informatics
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
cognitive science 2. informatics
informatics 3. informatics
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.3.a - Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure V.3.b - Study field to which it is assigned
informatics informatics
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
3
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
9
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
3
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
20
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
51
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
12
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
neural networks applied informatics 2. informatics
deep learning and cognition cognitive science 2. informatics
2. informatics
2. informatics

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
153
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
69
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
78
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
31
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
1672 (according to Google scholar)
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
443 (according to Google scholar)
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
673
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
45
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
27
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
17
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Li P., Farkaš I., MacWhinney B. (2004): Early lexical development in a self-organizing neural network. In: Neural Networks, 17(8-9), s. 1345-1362, (SJR = 1.49, Q1), Citations: 318 (Google scholar)

2

Li P., Farkaš I. (2002): A self-organizing connectionist model of bilingual processing. In: Bilingual Sentence Processing. Amsterdam: Elsevier, S. 59-85. - ISBN 0-444-50847-3. Citations: 222 (Google scholar)

3

Farkaš I., Bosák R., Gergeľ P. (2016): Computational analysis of memory capacity in echo state networks. In: Neural Networks, 83, 109-120, (SJR 2024 = 1.49, Q1), Citations: 101 (Google scholar)

4

Hoffmann M., Straka Z., Farkaš I., Vavrečka M., Metta G. (2018). Robot ic homunculus: Learning of artificial skin representation in a humanoid robot motivated by primary somatosensory cortex. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 10(2), 163-176 (SJR 2024 = 1.249, Q1). Citations: 52 (Google scholar)

5

Vavrečka, Michal - Farkaš, Igor: A multimodal connectionist architecture for unsupervised grounding of spatial language. In: Cognitive Computation, 6(1) (2014), 101-112, (SJR 2024 = 0.841, Q1). Citations: 24 (Google scholar)

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Reinboth T., Farkaš I. (2022). Ultimate grounding of abstract concepts: A graded account. Journal of Cognition, 5(1). (SJR 2024 = 0.978, Q2). Citations: 24 (Google scholar)

2

Farkaš I.: Transforming cognition and human society in the digital age. Biological Theory, 1-13, 2024, (SJR 2024 = 0.544, Q1). Citations: 18 (Google scholar)

3

Malinovská K., Farkaš I., Harvanová J., Hoffmann Matej (2022) A connectionist model of associating proprioceptive and tactile modalities in a humanoid robot. In IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, s. 336-342, DOI 10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962195. Citations: 6 (Google scholar)

4

Pecháč M., Chovanec M., Farkaš I.: Self-supervised network distillation: An effective approach to exploration in sparse reward environments. Neurocomputing 2024, (SJR 2024 = 1.471, Q1). Citations: 11 (Google scholar)

5

Farkaš I., Vavrečka M., Wermter S. (2025): Will multimodal large language models ever achieve deep understanding of the world? Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 19, 1683133, (SJR 2024 = 1.296, Q1).

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1
Li P., Farkaš I., MacWhinney B. (2004): === 2019 Goldberg, A. E.: Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 195 s. - BKCI-SSH *** 2019 Parisi, G. I. - Kemker, R. - Part, J. L. - Kanan, C. - Wermter, S.: Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review. In: Neural Networks, Vol. 113, s. 54-71 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Wen, Z.: Working memory as language aptitude: The phonological/executive model. In: Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice. [Abingdon] : Taylor and Francis, S. 187-214 - SCOPUS *** 2020 Floccia, C. et al.: Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers. In: Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 112, Art. No.104086 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2020 Martin, K. I. - Tokowicz, N.: The grammatical class effect is separable from the concreteness effect in language learning. In: Bilingualism-Language and Cognition, Vol. 23, No. 3, Art. No. PII S1366728919000233, s. 554-569 - SSCI ; SCOPUS
2
Li P., Farkaš I. (2002): === *** 2019 Gonzales, K. - Byers-Heinlein, K. - Lotto, A. J.: How bilinguals perceive speech depends on which language they think they're hearing. In: Cognition, Vol. 182, s. 318-330 - SCI; SCOPUS *** 2019 Penaloza, C. - Grasemann, U. - Dekhtyar, M. - Miikkulainen, R. - Kiran, S.: BiLex: A computational approach to the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure on bilingual lexical access. In: Brain and Lan guage, Vol. 195, Art. No. 104643 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Truscott, J. - Smith, M. S.: Internal context of bilingual processing. In: Internal Context Of Bilingual Processing: Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, Vol. 8. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjami ns Publishing Company, S. 1- 325 - BKCI-S *** 2020 Floccia, C. - Delle Luche, C. - Lepadatu, I. - Chow, J. - Ratnage, P. - Plunkett, K.: Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers. In: Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 112, Art. No.104086 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2020 Martin, K. I. - Tokowicz, N.: The grammatical class effect is separable from the concreteness effect in language learning. In: Bilingualism-Language and Cognition, Vol. 23, No. 3, s. 554-569 - SCI
3
Farkaš I., Bosák R., Gergeľ P. (2016) === *** 2019 Gallicchio, C. - Micheli, A.: Reservoir topology in deep echo state networks. In: Artificial Neural Networks and MacHine Learning - ICANN 2019: Workshop and Special Sessions : Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11731. Cham :Springer International Publishing Ag, S. 62-75 - CPCI-S ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Haruna, T. - Nakajima, K.: Optimal short-term memory before the edge of chaos in driven random recurrent networks. In: Physical Review E, Vol. 100, No. 6, Art. No. 062312 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Kawai, Y. - Park, J. - Asada, M.: A small-world topology enhances the echo state property and signal propagation in reservoir computing. In: Neural Networks, Vol. 112, s. 15-23 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Kim, H. H. - Jeong, J.: Decoding electroencephalographic signals for direction in brain-computer interface using echo state network and Gaussian readouts. In: Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 110, s. 254-264 - SCI ;SCOPUS *** 2019 Li, F. - Wang, X. - Li, Y.: Effects of singular value spectrum on the performance of echo state network. In: Neurocomputing, Vol. 358, s. 414-423 - SCI ; SCOPUS
4
Hoffmann M., Straka Z., Farkaš I., Vavrečka M., Metta G. (2018). === *** 2019 Prescott, T. J. - Camilleri, D. - Martinez-Hernandez, U. - Damianou, A. - Lawrence, N. D.: Memory and mental time travel in humans and social robots. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Vol.374, No. 1771, 2019, Art. No. 20180025 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Prescott, T. J. - Camilleri, D.: The synthetic psychology of the self. In: Cognitive Architectures : Intelligent Systems Control and Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 94. Dordrecht : Springer, 2019, S. 85-104 - BKCI-S ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Pugach, G. - Pitti, A. - Tolochko, O. - Gaussier, P.: Brain-inspired coding of robot body schema through visuo-motor integration of touched events. In: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Vol. 13, 2019, Art. No. 5 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Schuermann, T. - Mohler, B. J. - Peters, J. - Beckerle, P.: How cognitive models of human body experience might push robotics. In: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Vol. 13, 2019, Art. No. 14 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2020 Hafner, V. V. - Loviken, P. - Villalpando, A. - Schillaci, G.: Prerequisites for an artificial self. In: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Vol. 14, 2020, Art. No. 5 - SCI ; SCOPUS
5
Vavrečka, M., - Farkaš, I. (2014) === *** 2017 Oliva, J. - Serrano, J. I. - del Castillo, M. D. - Iglesias, A.: Cross-linguistic cognitive modeling of verbal morphology acquisition. In: Cognitive Computation, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2017, s. 237-258 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2017 Parisi, G. I. - Tani, J. - Weber, C. - Wermter, S.: Emergence of multimodal action representations from neural network self-organization. In: Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 43, 2017, s. 208-221 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2019 Huang, K. - Ma, X. - Song, R. - Rong, X. - Tian, X. - Li, Y.: An autonomous developmental cognitive architecture based on incremental associative neural network with dynamic audiovisual fusion. In: IEEE Access, Vol. 7, 2019, s.8789-8807 - SCI ; SCOPUS *** 2016 Heinrich, S. - Weber, C. - Wermter, S. - Xie, R. - Lin, Y. - Liu, Z.: Crossmodal language grounding, learning, and teaching. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1773, 2016, s. 1-7 - SCOPUS *** 2018 Parisi, G. I. - Barros, P. - Fu, D. - Magg, S. - Wu, H. - Liu, X. - Wermter, S.: A neurorobotic experiment for crossmodal conflict resolution in complex environments. In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots andSystems. Piscataway : IEEE, 2018, Art. No. 8594036, S. 2330-2335 - SCOPUS
VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

2022–2026 – APVV-21-0105: Trustworthy human–robot and therapist–patient interaction in virtual reality. In collaboration with Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava) (PI)

2

2017–2021 – APVV-16-0202: Enhancing cognition and motor rehabilitation in mixed reality. In collaboration with Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and FEI Technical University in Košice (principal investigator)

3
2018-2020 – VEGA 1/0796/18: Learning of a robotic system in a human-robot interaction (principal investigator)
4

2023–2025 - VEGA 1/0373/23: Computational modelling of early development of social skills in human-robot interaction (PI)

5

2023–2027 – Horizon Europe MSCA project no. 101072488, TRAIL: Transparent Interpretable Robots (partner)

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Member of the consortium for administration of Middle European Interdisciplinary Master Programme in Cognitive Science Consortium MEi:CogSci (Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Science) 2007 - present
chairman of the state examination committee for master programme in cognitive science FMFI Comenius University in Bratislava 2007 - present
progam director (guarantor) of master programme in cognitive science FMFI Comenius University in Bratislava 2014 - present
Member of the state examination committee for master programme in applied informatics FMFI Comenius University in Bratislava 2014 - present

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
University of Vienna Vienna annually, teacher mobility since 2010 within master programme in cognitive science CEEPUS
University of Texas at Austin Austin, USA 09/1998-01/1999 Fulbright scholarship
Saarland Universitaet Saarbruecken, Nemecko 09/2005-02/2006 Humboldt scholarship

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Founding member and former chair of the Slovak Society for Cognitive Science (SSKV), whose mission is to support the development of cognitive science in Slovakia and create conditions for international cooperation with an emphasis on the Central European region (2015-present).

Laureate of "Scientist of the Year 2023" - category "Personality of international cooperation", by CVTI

Laureate of "ESET Science Award 2024" - category "Outstanding academic in Slovakia, by ESET Foundation