Short biography:

• 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)