
Chair Professor for Cognitive Systems
Prof. Gordon Cheng, PhD, FIEEE.
Director of the Insitute for Cognitive Systems (ICS), Technische Universität München
Visiting Professors/Fellows/Partners

TUM-ICS Visiting Professor (2025 - 2026)
Prof. Toshio Fukuda, PhD, FIEEE, Professor at Nagoya University/Japan

Prof. Paolo Lugli, PhD, FIEEE, Professor of Nanoelectronics, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

Prof. SangHo Hyon, Professor of Robotics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

TUM IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow (2023 - 2026):
Prof. Agnieska Wykowska, Phd, Head of the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction (S4HRI) unit at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.

TUM IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow (awared by the Siemens AG):
Prof. Nitish V. Thakor, Neuroengineering and Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

TUM IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow (2017-2020):
Prof. Takao Someya, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo/Japan

Prof. Josef Rauschecker, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Director, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition, Georgetown University, USA, and TUM IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow.

TUM Global Visiting Professor Program (2019):
Prof. Jun Tani, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Okinawa, Japan.

TUM Global Visiting Professor Program (2020):
Prof. Mikhail A. Lebedev, PhD, Center for Bioelectric Interfaces, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Center for Neurobiology and Brain Restoration Moscow, Russia

Prof. Michael Beetz, Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI), University Bremen/Germany

Prof. Jun Nakanishi, Professor of Robotics, Meijo University, Japan.

TUM International Center visiting professor program: Prof. Koh Hosoda, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University/Japan (October 2017)