Kurzvita

Daniel Devatman Hromada is since August 2018 UdK’s Juniorprofessor for Digital Education. Born in 1982 in Bratislava, he holds bachelor degrees in humanities from Charles University (Prague; phenomenological lineage Husserl - Patočka - Sokol) and linguistics from University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis; master degree in artificial and natural cognition (M2) and comparative grammar (M1; philological lineage Saussure - Meillet - Benveniste - G.I.Pinault) from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris). In 2016, a successful defense of his Thesis “Evolutionary modelis of ontogeny of linguistic categories” also known as "Prolegomena Paedagogica", entitled Daniel to carry a double doctorate from both Slovak Technical University (cybernetics) as well as University Paris 8 – Lumieres (psychology). 

In majority of his publications, Daniel addresses topics as diverse as artificial intelligence in education, natural language processing, developmental linguistics, computer vision, semantic vector spaces, machine learning, evolutionary computation, computational rhetorics, narrative enrichment, roboethics and machine morality. Main design project of his 2018 - 2024 affiliation with Einstein Center Digital Future has been the construction of a “Personal Primer”, that is, a speech-based, book-like digital artifact for cognitive enhancment of 7 – 10 year old children. In 2024, Primer has been nominated for Science+Technology+Arts (STARTS) award of Prix Ars Electronica.

Father of three children, he’s a founder and first senator of oldest active Slovak digital community kyberia.sk for which he obtained Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention in 2013.

Links

bildung.digital.udk-berlin.de (old website)

udk.ai

LinkedIn

ResearchGate

GitHub

Google Scholar

ORCID

Baumhaus Digital (Open Educational Resources)

Selected publications

2009

Hromada, D. D. (2009). Oda na datasferu. Kritika & Kontext, 32, pp. 87-93. PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2009). Basen o jablku. Bachelor's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2009). First measurements concerning rhythmic circuit inertia and disparition of spontaneous motor tempo. PDF

2010
Hromada, D. D. (2010). Sourire naturel et sourire artificiel. De l'utilisation d'OpenCV pour la détection du sourire. Master's thesis, EPHE, Paris.
Hromada, D. D. (2010). Quantitative intercultural comparison by means of parallel pageranking of diverse national wikipedias. In JADT 2010 (pp. 643–651). PDF
Hromada, D. D., Tijus, C., Poitrenaud, S., & Nadel, J. (2010). Zygomatic smile detection: The semi-supervised Haar training of a fast and frugal system: A gift to OpenCV community. IEEE RIVF 2010, 241–245. https://doi.org/10.1109/RIVF.2010.5633176

2011
Hromada, D. D. (2011). The Central Problem of Roboethics: from Definition towards Solution. In IACAP 2011, MV-Verlag, pp. 211–215. PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2011). Initial experiments with multilingual extraction of rhetoric figures by means of PERL-compatible regular expressions. In RANLP Student Workshop (pp. 85–90). PDF

2012
El Ghali, A., Hromada, D., & El Ghali, K. (2012). Enrichir et raisonner sur des espaces sémantiques pour l’attribution de mots-clés. In Actes DEFT 2012 (pp. 81–94).
Hromada, D. D. (2012). From Age & Gender-based Taxonomy of Turing Test Scenarios towards Attribution of Legal Status to Meta-Modular Artificial Autonomous Agents. AISB/IACAP Turing Centenary Congress. https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1643

2013
Hromada, D. D. (2013). Random Projection and Geometrization of String Distance Metrics. In RANLP Student Workshop (pp. 79–85). PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2013). Parallel Democracy Model and its First Implementations in the Cyberspace. Teoria Politica, 3, 165–180. PDF
Namztohoto, H. (2013). Myth, machinery and cryptocoin avarice. PDF (presented under pseudonym at Annual Symposium of International Association for Computing and Philosophy, University College Maryland)

2014
Hromada, D. D. (2014). Conditions for cognitive plausibility of computational models of category induction. In IPMU 2014 (pp. 93–105). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08855-6_11
Hromada, D. D. (2014). Empiric Introduction to Light Stochastic Binarization. In TSD 2014 (pp. 37–45). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_5
Hromada, D. D. (2014). Comparative study concerning the role of surface morphological features in the induction of part-of-speech categories. In TSD 2014 (pp. 46–52). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_6
Hromada, D. D., & Gaudiello, I. (2014). Introduction to Moral Induction Model and its Deployment in Artificial Agents. Robo-Philosophy 2014, IOS Press, pp. 209. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-480-0-209
Hromada, D. D. (2014). Introductory experiments with evolutionary optimization of reflective semantic vector spaces. DEFT 2014. PDF

2015
Hromada, D. D. (2015). Genetic Optimization of Semantic Prototypes for Multiclass Document Categorization. Elitech 2015. https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1379
Hromada, D. D. (2015). Narrative fostering of morality in artificial agents: Constructivism, machine learning and story-telling. In L’esprit au-delà du droit. Mare & Martin, Paris. PDF

2016
Hromada, D. D. (2016). Reproducible Identification of Pragmatic Universalia in CHILDES Transcripts. JADT 2016, 541–550. PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2016). Can Evolutionary Computation Help us to Crib the Voynich Manuscript? arXiv:2107.05381

2018
Hromada, D. D. (2018). Extraction of lexical repetitive expressions from complete works of William Shakespeare. JADT 2018, 384–391. https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1331

2019
Hromada, D. D. (2019). After smartphone: Towards a new digital education artefact. Enfance, 3, 345–356. https://doi.org/10.3917/enf2.193.0345
Hromada, D. D. (2019). Prolegomena Paedagogica. PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2019). Circadian and eutark reduction of the energy trace of a digital school. Synergie, 7, 74–75. https://doi.org/10.25592/issn2509-3096.007

2020
Hromada, D. D., Seidler, P., & Kapanadze, N. (2020). Bauanleitung einer digitalen Fibel von und für ihre Schüler. In Mobil mit Informatik, 37.
Hromada, D. D. (2020). Digital education: “education-with” / “education-about” distinction and the teleological definition. https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1326

2021
Brodbeck, F., Seidler, P., & Hromada, D. D. (2021). Power Consumption of Diverse Speech Command Classification Methods on the Raspberry Pi Zero. https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1573
Hromada, D. D. (2021). UdK 2030 – Dritter Zukunftstag. PDF
Seidler, P., & Hromada, D. D. (2021). Lesekompetenz und künstliche Intelligenz. Deutsche Kinderhilfe Themenmagazin Bildung.
Hromada, D. D. (2021). Three principles (and 2 sub-principles) for harm minimization and prevention of technological addiction in human children. E.I.E.T.https://doi.org/10.35745/eiet2021v01.01.0005

2022
Brodbeck, F., & Hromada, D. D. (2022). teacher.js: A low-bandwidth Digital Tool for Outdoor Online Teaching. IEEE ECEI 2022, pp. 47–50. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECEI53102.2022.9829451
Hromada, D. D. (2022). Foreword to machine didactics: On peer learning of artificial and human pupils. In AIED 2022 (pp. 387–390). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_76

2023
Hromada, D. D., Kim, H. (2023). Proof-of-Concept of Feasibility of Human-Machine Peer Learning for German Noun Vocabulary Learning. Frontiers in Education, 8, 48. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1063337
Hromada, D. D., Kim, H. (2023). Digital Primer Implementation of Human-Machine Peer Learning for Reading Acquisition: Introducing Curriculum 2. IHIET 2023. https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004027
Hromada, D. D., Kim, H. (2023). Personal Primer Prototype 1: Invitation to Make Your Own Embooked Speech-Based Educational Artifact. INTERSPEECH 2023, 3687–3688. PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2023). Wicked Solutions Volume 1. Universität der Künste Berlin. ResearchGate
Hromada, D. D. (2023). Teacher.solar: Open source/hardware toolbox for CO₂-neutral outdoor digital education. PDF
Hromada, D. D. (2023). Once upon a time: On Kung-Fu lambs, role models and inherent notions of morality in a mainstream conservative ChatGPT-I. system. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.36289.63847

2024
Hromada, D. D. (2024). Narrative Primer: Education and Empowerment through Generative Storytelling. ICERI 2024. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35486.34887
Hromada, D. D. (2024). Ethical codex for engineers and designers of AIED systems: Parental responsibility, alignment, and child-centric imperatives. EDULEARN24 Proceedings, 3251–3257. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2024.0850
Hromada, D. D., Kuschel, L. (2024). Short Plaidoyer for Introduction of Eco-Artificial Education in Diverse Curricular Systems. EDULEARN24 Proceedings, 6008–6014. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2024.1434
Schmidts, C., Pointner, J., & Hromada, D. D. (2024). Extended Educational Environments for Past, Present and Future Students of Design & Computation. Book of Abstracts, 67. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18689.06242

2025

Cortell-Nicolau, A. et al. (incl. Hromada, D. D.) (2025). Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Journal of Archaeological Science, 177, 106179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106179

Hromada, D. D., & Lomfeld, B. (2025). From “Benevolence” to “Nature”: Moral Ordinals, Axiometry and Alignment of Values in Small Instruct Language Models. In Proceedings of the 0th Symposium on Moral and Legal AI Alignment. https://alignment.udk.ai/twente (udk.ai)

Lomfeld, B., & Hromada, D. D. (2025). Towards a Discoursive Normative Grammar for Language Models. In Proceedings of the 0th Symposium on Moral and Legal AI Alignment. https://alignment.udk.ai/twente (udk.ai)

Hromada, D. D. (2025). Informatik, KI, Kognition, Kunst und Fibel: 80 Monate altruistischer Konstruktionismus an einer Kunsthochschule. Informatik, KI, Kognition, Kunst und Fibel – 21. GI conference. PDF