Gordon Cheng is the chair, founder, and director of the Institute for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Munich. From 2002-2008, he was the head of the Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. His research interests include humanoid robotics, cognitive systems, neuroengineering, real-time network robot control, brain-machine interfaces, biomimetics of human vision, computational neuroscience of vision, action understanding, human-robot interaction, active vision, mobile robot navigation, and object-oriented software construction.