Gordon Cheng has performed pioneering work in Humanoid Robotics, NeuroEngineering, and Artificial Intelligence for more than 20 years. He holds the Chair for Cognitive Systems with regular teaching activities and lectures. He is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Cognitive Systems, School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) at the Technical University of Munich, Munich/Germany.
He is also the coordinator of the CoC for Neuro-Engineering - Center of Competence Neuro-Engineering and Speaker of the Elite Master of Science program in Neuroengineering (MSNE) of the Elite Network of Bavaria.
In 2017, he was appointed IEEE Fellow 2017 for contributions to humanoid robotic systems and neurorobotics.

Formerly, he was the Head of the Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. He was the Group Leader for the newly initiated JST International Cooperative Research Project (ICORP), Computational Brain. He has also been designated as a Project Leader/Research Expert for the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan. He is also involved (as an adviser and as an associated partner) in a number of major European Union Projects.

Over the past ten years, Gordon Cheng has been the co-inventor of approximately 20 patents and is the author of approximately 300 technical publications, proceedings, editorials, and book chapters.