Partnerships
Explore your options in academia, industry, and society
MULTICOM’s network of associated partners offers top-level opportunities worldwide across industry, academia, international cooperation, policy, and governance. Spend time and receive mentoring at world leaders in multimodal data science. Transfer knowledge in problem-solving environments. Access invaluable skills, data-analysis experiences, and networking opportunities.
Our partners in industry and society
Fraunhofer Integrated Circuits
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) contributes audio, speech, and sensor technologies. Students explore beamforming, audio coding, wearable sensing, and embedded AI, integrating gaze, speech, and motion streams with time-synchronization and signal processing for multimodal data acquisition, annotation, and evaluation.
Hands With Heart
Hands With Heart is a nonprofit delivering free, multidisciplinary care to children and adults with disabilities in underserved communities around the world. MULTICOM students can join international missions to carry out fieldwork projects on patient-caregiver interactions, and on the impact of multimodal technologies on disability in challenging environments.
QUALISYS
Qualisys provides research-grade optical motion capture for human communication studies. Its infrared cameras and QTM software deliver precise 3D kinematics with real-time streaming and synchronization, integrating with audio, EMG, force plates, and VR, enabling analyses of gesture, pose, and interaction.
Tobii
Tobii, a global eye-tracking provider, hosts student projects with extensive hardware and software. MULTICOM students can run experiments and address measurement and synchronization challenges with industry researchers. Tobii’s teams have experience across multiple EU projects, and offer regular training for users worldwide.
Our partners in academia
Case Western Reserve University
At Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Cognitive Science (US), students can pursue projects linking multimodal data science and machine learning with social cognition, language, cooperation, and creativity. CWRU CogSci also leads the development of multimodal corpora and computational tools at the Red Hen Lab.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
The MPI for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen (Netherlands), offers top-level opportunities at labs for cognitive modeling, speech, gesture, eye tracking, and neuroimaging, as well as large datasets such as The Language Archive. Strong recruitment prospects for research and PhD positions.
Radboud Universiteit
At Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands), students have access to experimental research on social interaction and multimodal communication (gesture, prosody, gaze), through the CoSi Lab, the Nijmegen Gesture Center, and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour.
Red Hen Lab
The Red Hen Lab is a consortium of multiple institutions and researchers around the world, all of them working in the data science of multimodal communication. Red Hen develops large-scale video datasets and computational tools for the big-data analysis of multimodal corpora.
University of Warwick
At the University of Warwick (UK), psychology of language connects linguistics, psychology, and data science. Students access eye-tracking and behavioral labs, applied linguistics resources, and the Data Science Institute, enabling experimental and computational work on speech–gesture–cognition, with co-supervision in multimodality, development, and child research.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
At the University of Wisconsin–Madison (US), the Cognitive Development and Communication Lab advances multimodality in children’s cognitive development and learning, especially mathematics. MULTICOM students can pursue projects across education, emotion, and communication, with applications from classrooms to security and customer service.