Prof. Faisal joined the young faculty in 2022 as Professor of Digital Health & Data Science in the Life Sciences at Kulmbach, having previously been with the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. He is also head of research at the Brain and Behavior Lab, which operates in both London and Bayreuth, working at the intersection of machine learning, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering. Additionally, he holds a professorship in AI and Neuroscience at Imperial College London and serves as Director of the Behaviour Analytics Lab at the Data Science Institute in London. There, he is also Professor of AI & Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for AI in Healthcare. In Kulmbach, he founded the Live-in Lab, Europe’s leading laboratory for digital, AI-supported research on human behaviour in everyday life.
Prof. Faisal’s work integrates cross-disciplinary computational and scientific approaches to explore how humans and machines can learn and control complex, goal-oriented behaviours. He is particularly interested in how human abilities can be enhanced through technologies such as AI. His experiments with pianists learning to play with an AI-controlled third robotic thumb, thus using eleven fingers, have garnered significant attention.
