“R&D = Realising Dreams!” Eq. 1

“PI = People are Important!” Eq. 2

Gordon Cheng is CoTeSys Professor (DFG Cluster of Excellence “Cognition for Technical Systems – CoTeSys”) Technical University Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany (2008- ).

Visiting Professor (NeuroEngineerng), Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal (ELS-IINN), Brazil (2008- ).

Visiting Professor (Mechatronics), Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France (2008- ).

Visiting Professor (Computer Science), University of Southern California, USA (2008 -).

Advisory board member of ITALK, EU Framework 7 project (2008- ).

Advisory board/Extended board member of CoTeSys, Germany Cluster of Excellence (2006-).

Advisory board member of the working group for InterLink – International Cooperation Activities in Future and Emerging Information and Communication Technologies (EU FET) (2007-).

Associated partner of PACO-PLUS, EU Framework 6 project (2005- )

Advisory board of ROBOT-CUB, EU Framework 6 project (2004- )

Founder and Head of the Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan (2003-2008).

Group Leader for Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), International Cooperative Research Project (ICORP), Computational Brain Project, Saitama, Japan (2004-2008).

Research Expert/Project Leader for National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan (2007-2008).

Project Leader, CyberHuman Project, ATR Human Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan (2002-2008).

Center of Excellence (COE) Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan (2000-2002).

Science, and Technology Agency (STA) Fellow, ElectroTechnical Laboratory (ETL), Japan (1998-2000).

Founder and Managing Director, G.T.i. Computing Pty. Ltd., Australia (1995-2006).

National Systems Support Manager, Mayne Nickless Corporation, Australia/North America (1994-1996).

Computer Systems Officer, Department of Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia (1990-1994).

Apple Developer (1991-1994), Australia.

Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia (1991, 1993).

Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, Acton, A.C.T., Australia (2001).

He participates in a number of on-going projects around world.

He is the co-inventor of approx. 15 patents and the author of approx. 160 technical publications, proceedings, editorials and books.

His research interests include humanoid robotics, cognitive systems, brain-machine interfaces, biomimetic of human vision, computational neuroscience of vision, action understanding, human–robot interaction, active vision, mobile robot navigation, and object-oriented software construction.

He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (since 2004) and is an associate editor of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (since 2007).