B.Sc. and M.Sc. in “Electrical Engineering and Information Technology” at TUM (semester abroad at NTU, Singapore)
M.Sc. "Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence" (TUM)
M.A. "Philosophy of Science and Technology" (TUM, Munich Center for Technology in Society); student representative
M.Sc. "Neuroengineering" (TUM, Elite Network of Bavaria); student representative
Research stay at RIKEN AI Project at Kyoto University, Japan
Research stay at Center for Neuroengineering and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington
I'm currently a senior PhD candidate within the TUM Innovation Network eXprt, supervised by Prof. Dr. Gordon Cheng, where I'm working in an interdisciplinary team to elucidate brain activity and plasticity during assistance and rehabilitation with soft robotic exoskeletons.
At the Institute for Cognitive Systems, I am the team lead of the neuroengineering research team and am lecturing on neuro-inspired systems engineering and neurorehabilitation technologies. I especially enjoy supervising and mentoring talented young neuroengineering researchers.
Available Student Research Projects:
Currently, all open master thesis and internship projects have been filled. New projects will become available in 2025.
Interests
My main research interests lie in the intersections of robotics, neuroscience, and philosophy such as:
intention prediction and sensory feedback in brain-machine interfaces
cognitive neuroscience (EEG, fMRI) for investigating neural correlates of embodiment and sense of agency
neuroengineering, robotics, and AI in neurorehabilitation
neuroethics and AI ethics
Recent Awards and Fellowships:
2023: Selected Podium Talk at IEEE/EMBS NER, Baltimore, USA
2020: Wolfgang-Heilmann Award for the Humane Use of Information Technology with Project "KI macht Schule" (AI education at schools)
2020: Finalist for Best Paper Award at IROS for our paper - Uhde, C., Berberich, N., Ramirez-Amaro, K., & Cheng, G. (2020). The Robot as Scientist: Using Mental Simulation to Test Causal Hypotheses Extracted from Human Activities in Virtual Reality. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341505
2019: Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and RIKEN for a 6-month research stay with Prof. Dr. Toyoaki Nishida, Human-AI communication team at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Kyoto/Japan
2018: Best Poster Award at "Interdisciplinary College" (Spring School on AI, Neuroscience and Robotics): "VirtuousAI: An Apprenticeship Learning Approach for Building Moral Machines" - work with Prof. Klaus Diepold
2017-2018: SmartStart Fellowship by the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience
2015-2018: Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
J. A. Garcia-Higuera, N. Paredes-Acuña, T. Le, B. Auclair, K. Tomašković, N. Berberich and G. Cheng: Damping TENS-Induced Essential Tremor Symptoms in Activities of Daily Living Using the TuMove Wrist Exoskeleton. 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2023, 1-6 more…BibTeX
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C. Ritter, M. Senne, N. Berberich, K. Yilmazer, N. Paredes-Acuña and G. Cheng: Grip Force Dynamics During Exoskeleton-Assisted and Virtual Grasping. 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2023, 1-6 more…BibTeX
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Christopher L. Hunt, Keqin Ding, Christoph S. Wagner, Nicolas Berberich, Karahan Yilmazer, Gordon Cheng, Marlis Gonzalez-Fernandez, Nitish Thakor: Investigating the relationship between cue immersion and the strength of motor imagery during hand and wrist movements. 11th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2023, 2023 more…BibTeX
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Laura Pilger, Nicolas Berberich, Natalia Paredes-Acuna, Adrian Dendorfer, Julio Rogelio Guadarrama Olvera, Florian Bergner, Daniel Utpadel-Fischler, Gordon Cheng: Human-Centered Design of a Vibrotactile Sensory Substitution Belt for Feet Somatosensation in a Patient with Multiple Sclerosis. 11th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2023, 2023 more…BibTeX
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Nicolas Berberich, Natalia Paredes-Acuna, Benjamin Michael Lipp, Gordon Cheng: Embedding Ethics into Neuroengineering Education: A Human-Centered Engineering Course on Neurorehabilitation. 11th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2023, 2023 more…BibTeX
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P. -C. Chan, N. Paredes-Acuña, N. Berberich, A. Polata and G. Cheng: Feasibility Study of an Active Ball Joint Mechanism for a Wheelchair-Mounted 2-DOF Shoulder Exoskeleton. 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2023, 220-225 more…BibTeX
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2022
Constantin Uhde; Nicolas Berberich; Hao Ma; Rogelio Guadarrama; Gordon Cheng: Learning Causal Relationships of Object Properties and Affordances Through Human Demonstrations and Self-Supervised Intervention for Purposeful Action in Transfer Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Volume 7 ( Issue 4), 2022, 11015 - 11022 more…BibTeX
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Natalia Paredes-Acuña; Nicolas Berberich; Emmanuel Dean-León; Gordon Cheng: Tactile-based Assistive Method to Support Physical Therapy Routines in a Lightweight Upper-Limb Exoskeleton. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2022 more…BibTeX
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Nicholas Tacca, John Nassour, Stefan K. Ehrlich, Nicolas Berberich, Gordon Cheng: Neuro-cognitive assessment of intentional control methods for a soft elbow exosuit using error-related potentials. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2022 more…BibTeX
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2021
Matthijs Pals, Rafael Javier Pérez Belizón, Nicolas Berberich, Stefan K. Ehrlich, John Nassour, Gordon Cheng: Demonstrating the viability of mapping deep learning-based EEG decoders to spiking networks on low-powered neuromorphic hardware. 43rd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2021, 2021 more…BibTeX
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Natalia Paredes-Acuña, Nicolas Berberich, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Gordon Cheng: Using Robot Skin to Support Physical Therapy Routines with a Lightweight Upper-Limb Exoskeleton. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2021, 2021 more…BibTeX
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Paula Villa Fulton, Simone Löhlein, Natalia Paredes-Acuña, Nicolas Berberich, Gordon Cheng: Wrist Exoskeleton Design for Pronation and Supination using Mirrored Movement Control. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2021, 2021 more…BibTeX
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Svea Marie Meyer, Ashish Rao Mangalore, Stefan K. Ehrlich, Nicolas Berberich, John Nassour, Gordon Cheng.: A Comparative Study on ErrPs for Different Usage Conditions of an Exoskeleton with a Mobile EEG Device. 43rd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2021, 2021 more…BibTeX
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Xingying Chen, Simone Vera Löhlein, John Nassour, Stefan K. Ehrlich, Nicolas Berberich, Gordon Cheng: Visually-guided Grip Selection for Soft-Hand Exoskeleton. 43rd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2021, 2021 more…BibTeX
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2020
Constantin Uhde, Nicolas Berberich, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, and Gordon Cheng: The Robot as Scientist: Using Mental Simulation to Test Causal Hypotheses Extracted from Human Activities in Virtual Reality. IROS, 2020 more…BibTeX
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Hoxha, Isabelle; Del Duca, Fulvia; Ehrlich, Stefan K.; Bergner, Florian; Berberich, Nicolas; Cheng, Gordon: Improving user comfort in auditory-steady-state-response brain-computer interface by using a co-adaptive stimulus. FENS 2020 Virtual Forum 2020Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)more…BibTeX
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Mariia Popova, Melanie Tschiersch, Nicolas Berberich, Stefan K. Ehrlich, David Franklin, Gordon Cheng: A bump-attractor spiking neural network for motor adaptation and washout based on Norepinephrine release in primary motor cortex. CNS2020, 2020 more…BibTeX
Melanie Tschiersch, Mariia Popova, Nicolas Berberich, Stefan K. Ehrlich, David Franklin, Gordon Cheng: A bump-attractor spiking neural network for motor learning based on Norepinephrine release. FENS2020 2020Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)more…BibTeX
Nicolas Berberich, Gordon Cheng: Kognitive Systeme und Neurorobotik. In: Philosophisches Handbuch Künstliche Intelligenz. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2020 more…BibTeX
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Nicolas Berberich, Toyoaki Nishida, Shoko Suzuki: Harmonizing Artificial Intelligence for Social good. Philosophy & Technology 33, 2020, 613–638 more…BibTeX
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Nicolas Berberich: Künstliche Intelligenz und Sicherheit. In: Wie Maschinen Lernen. Springer, Wiesbaden , 2019 more…BibTeX
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Nicolas Berberich, Christian Hölzer: Über die Mystifizierung von KI. In: Wie Maschinen Lernen. Springer, Wiesbaden , 2019 more…BibTeX
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Nicolas Berberich, Ina Kalder: Künstliche Intelligenz und Sicherheit. In: Wie Maschinen Lernen. Springer, Wiesbaden , 2019 more…BibTeX
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