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Philipp Wicke is the Lead AI Engineer at AURYAL, a Europe-based neuro-tech startup funded by the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND). He is a lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and BTU Cottbus, after being an Assistant Professor (Akad. Rat) at LMU. He is working on a diversity of topics related to Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics. His doctoral thesis on Embodied Storytelling using Spatial Metaphor and Gesture provides a contribution to the research of Computational Creativity. Philipp has taught programming in the B.A. and M.A. Computational Linguistics for more than 8 years. His background in Cognitive Science fields his research interest in Computational Creativity, Embodied Cognition and Artificial Intelligence.
Feel free to get in touch at: philipp[at]auryal[dot]com
Research Activities
Research Activities
2025 - November | sipgate Tech-Day 2025. Düsseldorf, Germany. Keynote Speaker.
2025 - October | VP AI, Lead AI Scientist at Neuro-Tech Startup AURYAL. Role change.
2025 - October | "(In)Credible Research Conference 2025" Charité Graduate Studies Support (Berlin University Alliance). Panelist.
2025 - September | "On Non-Verbal Behavior and Embodiment in Human-AI Communication" Center for Advanced Studies Workshop at LMU. Organiser.
2025 - August | ACL'25 - "Time Course MechInterp: Analyzing the Evolution of Components and Knowledge in Large Language Models" A. D. Hakimi, A. Modarressi, P. Wicke, H. Schuetze. ACL Findings (long). Co-Author.
2025 - August | IJCAI'25 - AI, Arts and Creativity. Special Track Program Committee Member. Reviewer.
2025 - July | "AI: I ain’t got no body!" LMU Newsroom Article. Press release.
2025 - July | Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II) at ACL 2025, Vienna. PC Member.
2025 - July | Center for Advanced Studies (CAS). Lunch Talk: Understanding of Non-Verbal Behavior by Multimodal AI Systems. Speaker.
2025 - May | "Computational creativity and generative storytelling" Research Colloquium of SFB 1646 "Langauge Creativity in Communication". University Bielefeld. Invited Speaker.
2025 - May | Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) at NAACL 2025. Organiser.
2025 - April | NAT'25 - Conference on Neuroadaptive Technology 2025. Berlin. Accepted Paper. Speaker.
2025 - March | Interdisciplinary College 2025 "Augmenting Minds and Bodies" - IK'25. PC Member, Invited Speaker.
2024 - December | "Unleashing AI Agents – Focusing on New Opportunities for AI Adoption in Industries," co-hosted by appliedAI and SAP. Invited Speaker.
2024 - November | Review for the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG). Reviewer.
2024 - October | Reviewer of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction HRI'25. Reviewer.
2024 - October | Tenured Position at LMU Munich, CIS lab by Hinrich Schuetze - Researcher and Lecturer (Entf. Akademischer Rat) at CIS.
2024 - September | "Exploring Spatial Intuitions and Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models". Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University Bologna. Research Colloquium Talk. Invited Speaker.
2024 - August | "Exploring Spatial Schema Intuitions in Large Language and Vision Models" Philipp Wicke and Lennart Wachowiak. ACL 2024 Findings. Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand. Paper.
2024 - August | ACL'24, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Reviewer.
2024 - August | Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) 2024 at ACL 2024. Organizer.
2024 - August | The First Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-ANGLE) co-located with IJCAI 2024. Accepted Paper.
2024 - July | Geriatronics Summit 2024 Conference. July 09-10, Congress Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Poster presentation.
2024 - July | DHBW AI Transfer Congress. Program Committee Member.
2024 - June | Associate Member of the Munich Center for Linguistics (MCL).
2024 - June | International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’24. Program Committee Member.
2024 - June | NAACL 2024. Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Reviewer.
2024 - May | Language and Cognition Lab by Prof. Benjamin Bergen. Virtual lab visit and presentation. Lecturer.
2024 - May | Neuroadaptive HCI, Virtual lab visit and presentation. Invited Speaker.
2024 - May | LREC-COLING. 2024 Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective. Program Committee Member.
2024 - May | ICRA 2024. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Reviewer.
2024 - April | Guest-Lecture at TU Cottbus-Senftenberg: »Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering« Lecturer.
2024 - April | Cognitive Science Colloquium. University Tuebingen. "Embodied Cognitive Linguistics". Lecturer.
2024 - March | Interdisciplinary College 2024, IK 'Robustness, Resilience, Responsibility'. Lecturer, Program Committee Member, Organizer.
2024 - February | CampusDay at LMU 2024. "Introduction to Programming for Computational Linguistics" Sample Lecture. Lecturer.
2023 - December | RobotLearning@NeurIPS2023. "LoHoRavens: A Long-Horizon Language-Conditioned Benchmark for Robotic Tabletop Manipulation" S. Zhang, P. Wicke, L.K. Senel, L. Figueredo, A. Naceri, S. Haddadin, B. Plank, H.Schuetze. Poster.
2023 - December | EMNLP'23 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Area Chair.
2023 - November | "International Conference on AI for People: Democratizing AI" CAIP'23. 24-26 November 2023, Bologna, Italy. Organizer.
2023 - September | EPIA'23, 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Program Committee Member.
2023 - July | Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Reviewer.
2023 - July | "LMs stand their Ground: Investigating the Effect of Embodiment in Figurative Language Interpretation by Language Models" P. Wicke, ACL 2023 Findings (long). Toronto, Canada. Paper.
2023 - July | "A Crosslingual Investigation of Conceptualization in 1335 Languages" Y. Liu, H. Ye, L. Weissweiler, P. Wicke, R. Pei, R. Zangenfeind and H. Schütze, ACL 2023 Main (long). Toronto, Canada. Paper.
2023 - July | "Towards Language-Based Modulation of Assistive Robots through Multimodal Models" P. Wicke, L. Şenel, S. Zhang, L. Figueredo, A. Naceri, S. Haddadin and H. Schütze, Geriatronics Summit 2023, Germany. Presenter.
2023 - June | "Kommuniziert KI?" - I'm a Scientist. Online-Mentoring of Live-Chats with young, German pupils. Science Communication. Scientist / Advisor.
2023 - May | Ludum Dare 53. Game Jam, Generative Art for Video Games. Participant.
2023 - April | International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC23. Reviewer.
2023 - March | IK'23 Interdisciplinary College 2023, Dynamics of Experience – Minds, Bodies, and Things. Organization Team Member, Program Commitee Member and Lecturer.
2023 - March | Associated Member of the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML).
2022 - December | Lingua (Elsevier). Reviewer.
2022 - November | Workshop "Language-Based Expert-AI Cooperation" of TU Darmstadt and LMU, Schloss Dagstuhl. Organization.
2022 - October | Ludum Dare 51. Game Jam. Visual Design for Emotimon.
2022 - June | "The Role of Gestures and Movement in Computational, Embodied Storytelling". The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human & Artificial Creativity. ICCC'22 Workshop. Workshop Publication.
2022 - May | "Immune moral models? Pro-social rule breaking as a moral enhancement approach for ethical AI" Ramanayake, R., Wicke, P. & Nallur, V. AI & Soc.
2022 - May | PLOS ONE. Journal. Reviewer.
2022 - March | IK'22 Interdisciplinary College 2022. "Flexibility", 07.03.-17.03.2022. Technical Committee Member.
2021 - December | PLOS ONE. Journal. Reviewer.
2021 - December | Proceedings of the First International Conference on AI for People. CORE. EAI. Editor.
2021 - November | CAIP'21. International Conference on AI for People: "Towards Sustainable AI". Conference. General Chair / Organizer.
2021 - November| PLOS ONE. Journal. Reviewer.
2021 - October | Akademischer Rat (~Assistant Professor) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Schuetze's Lab. PostDoc.
2021 - October | BioScience, Oxford Academic Journal. Reviewer.
2021 - September | "Computational Storytelling as an Embodied Robot Performance with Gesture and Spatial Metaphor". Philipp Wicke. PhD Thesis.
2021 - September | International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC'21. Program Committee Member.
2021 - April | "Creative Action at a Distance: A Conceptual Framework for Embodied Performance With Robotic Actors" Philipp Wicke and Tony Veale. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Creativity and Robotics. 2021. Journal Paper.
2021 - April | AI & Society. Springer. Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication. Special issue on AI for People. 2021. Reviewer.
2021 - March | "Covid-19 Discourse on Twitter: How the Topics, Sentiments, Subjectivity, and Figurative Frames Changed Over Time" Philipp Wicke and Marianna Bolognesi. Frontiers in Communication. Journal Publication.
2021 - March | "Are You Not Entertained? Computational Storytelling with Non-Verbal Interaction" Philipp Wicke and Tony Veale. HRI '21 Late-Breaking Report. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Publication.
2021 - March | Virtual Interdisciplinary College. "Connected in Cyberspace". Social Committee Member.
2021 - January | The Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on Multimodality. Speaker.
2020 - December | The Power of Metaphor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL). Guest Lecturer.
2020 - September | "Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter" P. Wicke and M. Bolognesi. PLOS ONE. Journal Publication.
2020 - September | "The Show Must Go On: On the Use of Embodiment, Space and Gesture in Computational Storytelling" New Generation Computing (Springer). Journal Publication.
2020 - September | EAI Goodtechs 2020, European Alliance for Innovation, International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, Antwerp (BE). Program Committee Member.
2020 - September| ICCC20 - International Conference on Computational Creativity, Coimbra (PRT). Paper & Short Paper.
2020 - August | "A hands-on Exercise in Natural Language Processing" 1st AI for People Workshop. Speaker & Organizer.
2020 - May | "Emoji-based semantic representations for abstract and concrete concepts" Cognitive Processing, Springer. Paper.
2020 - April | "Walk the Line: Digital Storytelling as Embodied Spatial Performance". AISB20 - Symposium on Computational Creativity. Extended Abstract.
2020 - March | AI for People's Coding Class. Free Online Coding Class for Beginner. Lecturer.
2020 - January | Hacking the Computable HDMK Suttgart (GER), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. Speaker.
2019 - December | The Power of Metaphor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL). Guest Lecturer.
2019 - October | Computational Cognition Workshop, Osnabrück (GER). Poster.
2019 - July | HumTec Workshop "Embodied A.I. / Exbodied Mind", HumTec RWTH Aachen (GER). Speaker.
2019 - June | ICCC19 International Conference on Computational Creativity, Charlotte, North Carolina (USA). Poster.
2019 - June | ISSAI Interdisciplinary Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, Vila Nova de Cerveira (PRT). Attendance.
2019 - April| Dagstuhl Seminar "Computational Creativity Meets Digital Literary Studies" (19172), Schloss Dagstuhl (GER). Speaker.
2019 - March | Conference on Creative Multilingualism: The Creative Power of Metaphor, Oxford (UK). Attendance.
2019 - March | IK19 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Out Of Your Senses. From Data To Insight". Attendance.
2018 - TriCoLore18. 4th Image Schema Day, Bozen (IT). "Wheels Within Wheels: A Causal Treatment of Image Schemas in An Embodied Storytelling System" P.Wicke and T.Veale. Speaker.
2018 - Good AIfternoon Colloquium, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). Introduction to Computational Creativity. Invited Speaker.
2018 - ICCC18 International Conference on Computational Creativity, Salamanca (ES). "Interview with the Robot: Question-Guided Collaboration in a Story-telling System" P.Wicke and T.Veale. Speaker.
2018 - March | IK18 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Me, Myself and I". 3rd Best Poster Award. Poster presenter.
2018 - AISB18 Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Behavior, Liverpool (UK). Paper presentation "Storytelling by a Show of Hands: A framework for interactive embodied storytelling in robotic agents" P.Wicke and T. Veale. Speaker.
2017 - Outreach Talk, UCD School of Computer Science Opening Evening, Dublin (IRL). Speaker.
2017 - March | IK17 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Creativity and Intelligence in Brains and Machines". Attendance.
2017 - High-Concepts, Low-Downs. Workshop on Computational Creativity, UCD Dublin (IRL). Speaker.
2017 - Bachelor of Science, Cognitive Science (GPA 1.1 with distinction) - University Osnabrueck (GER). Ideograms as Semantic Primes: Emoji in Computational Linguistic Creativity. Graduate.
2016 - September | NTU EEE-NVIDIA Deep Learning Day workshop Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Participation.
2016 - RISE Scholarship 2016, DAAD. Awardee.
2016 - Internship - Prediction of optimal brain surgery in epileptic patients, Dauwels Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Intern.
2016 - ERASMUS+ Scholarship 2016. Awardee.
2016 - Internship - Computational Creativity, The Creative Language System Group, University College Dublin, Ireland. Intern.
2016 - March | IK16 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Transitions and Transformations in Cognition, Biology and Interactive Systems". Attendance.
2016 - April | 2nd PROSECCO Code Camp on Computational Creativity, Antwerp Belgium (bestofbotworlds.com). Participation.
2015 | Oxford's Summerfield lab (Dept. of Experimental Psychology), Brown’s lab (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences), Vogels' lab (Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour). Visit.
2015 | Cognium Macaque Laboratory Bremen. Introduction to neuroscientific work on primates by Prof. Michael Koch from Brain Research Institute, Department of Neuropharmacology. Visit.
2015 - Sept. | GAP.9 Ninth International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. Assistance.
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