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A complete chronological record of papers, talks, service and roles, 2015–2026; most entries link to the paper, talk or venue. Selected highlights live on the front page; the full publication list is on Google Scholar.
2026
May
Cognitive Modelling and Computational Linguistics Workshop at LREC 2026. Mallorca, Co-Organiser.
Service
March
Interdisciplinary College 2026, Bridging Realities of Brains, Language, and Technology. Chair, Lecturer, Organiser.
Talk
March
"Neuroadaptive Architecture Integrating Synthetic Neural Feedback and Control" P. Bhatia, L. Becker, R. Lutz, L. Mihić Zidar, M. Klug, T. O. Zander, P. Wicke. Interdisciplinary College 2026, Poster.
Paper
February
"Decoding Workload and Agreement From EEG During Spoken Dialogue With Conversational AI" L. Mihić Zidar, P. Wicke, P. Bhatia, R. Lutz, M. Klug, T. O. Zander. International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI 2026), Korea University. Paper.
Paper
2025
November
Area Chair ACL "Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics". Area Chair.
Service
November
sipgate Tech-Day 2025. Düsseldorf, Germany. Keynote Speaker.
Talk
October
"(In)Credible Research Conference 2025" Charité Graduate Studies Support (Berlin University Alliance). Panelist.
Service
September
"On Non-Verbal Behavior and Embodiment in Human-AI Communication" Center for Advanced Studies Workshop at LMU. Organiser.
Service
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.
Paper
July
Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II) at ACL 2025, Vienna. PC Member.
Service
July
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS). Lunch Talk: Understanding of Non-Verbal Behavior by Multimodal AI Systems. Speaker.
Talk
May
"Computational creativity and generative storytelling" Research Colloquium of SFB 1646 "Language Creativity in Communication". University Bielefeld. Invited Speaker.
Talk
May
Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) at NAACL 2025. Organiser.
Service
March
Interdisciplinary College 2025 "Augmenting Minds and Bodies" - IK'25. PC Member, Invited Speaker.
Talk
2024
December
"Unleashing AI Agents – Focusing on New Opportunities for AI Adoption in Industries," co-hosted by appliedAI and SAP. Invited Speaker.
Talk
November
Review for the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG). Reviewer.
Service
October
Tenured Position at LMU Munich, CIS lab by Hinrich Schuetze - Researcher and Lecturer (Entf. Akademischer Rat) at CIS.
Role
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.
Talk
August
"Exploring Spatial Schema Intuitions in Large Language and Vision Models" Philipp Wicke and Lennart Wachowiak. ACL 2024 Findings. Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand. Paper.
Paper
August
The First Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-ANGLE) co-located with IJCAI 2024. Accepted Paper.
Paper
July
Geriatronics Summit 2024 Conference. July 09-10, Congress Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Poster presentation.
Paper
June
NAACL 2024. Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Reviewer.
Service
May
Language and Cognition Lab by Prof. Benjamin Bergen. Virtual lab visit and presentation. Lecturer.
Talk
May
LREC-COLING. 2024 Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective. Program Committee Member.
Service
April
Guest-Lecture at TU Cottbus-Senftenberg: »Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering« Lecturer.
Talk
April
Cognitive Science Colloquium. University Tuebingen. "Embodied Cognitive Linguistics". Lecturer.
Talk
March
Interdisciplinary College 2024, IK 'Robustness, Resilience, Responsibility'. Lecturer, Program Committee Member, Organizer.
Talk
February
CampusDay at LMU 2024. "Introduction to Programming for Computational Linguistics" Sample Lecture. Lecturer.
Talk
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.
Paper
December
EMNLP'23 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Area Chair.
Service
November
"International Conference on AI for People: Democratizing AI" CAIP'23. 24-26 November 2023, Bologna, Italy. Organizer.
Service
September
EPIA'23, 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Program Committee Member.
Service
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.
Paper
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.
Paper
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.
Activity
June
"Kommuniziert KI?" - I'm a Scientist. Online-Mentoring of Live-Chats with young, German pupils. Science Communication. Scientist / Advisor.
Activity
March
IK'23 Interdisciplinary College 2023, Dynamics of Experience – Minds, Bodies, and Things. Organization Team Member, Program Commitee Member and Lecturer.
Talk
2022
December
Lingua (Elsevier). Reviewer.
Service
November
Workshop "Language-Based Expert-AI Cooperation" of TU Darmstadt and LMU, Schloss Dagstuhl. Organization.
Activity
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.
Paper
May
"Immune moral models? Pro-social rule breaking as a moral enhancement approach for ethical AI" Ramanayake, R., Wicke, P. & Nallur, V. AI & Soc.
Activity
March
IK'22 Interdisciplinary College 2022. "Flexibility", 07.03.-17.03.2022. Technical Committee Member.
Service
2021
November
CAIP'21. International Conference on AI for People: "Towards Sustainable AI". Conference. General Chair / Organizer.
Service
October
Akademischer Rat (~Assistant Professor) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Schuetze's Lab. PostDoc.
Role
September
"Computational Storytelling as an Embodied Robot Performance with Gesture and Spatial Metaphor". Philipp Wicke. PhD Thesis.
Paper
September
International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC'21. Program Committee Member.
Service
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.
Paper
April
AI & Society. Springer. Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication. Special issue on AI for People. 2021. Reviewer.
Paper
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.
Paper
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.
Paper
2020
September
"Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter" P. Wicke and M. Bolognesi. PLOS ONE. Journal Publication.
Paper
September
"The Show Must Go On: On the Use of Embodiment, Space and Gesture in Computational Storytelling" New Generation Computing (Springer). Journal Publication.
Paper
September
EAI Goodtechs 2020, European Alliance for Innovation, International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, Antwerp (BE). Program Committee Member.
Service
September
ICCC20 - International Conference on Computational Creativity, Coimbra (PRT). Paper & Short Paper.
Paper
August
"A hands-on Exercise in Natural Language Processing" 1st AI for People Workshop. Speaker & Organizer.
Talk
May
"Emoji-based semantic representations for abstract and concrete concepts" Cognitive Processing, Springer. Paper.
Paper
April
"Walk the Line: Digital Storytelling as Embodied Spatial Performance". AISB20 - Symposium on Computational Creativity. Extended Abstract.
Paper
2019
June
ICCC19 International Conference on Computational Creativity, Charlotte, North Carolina (USA). Poster.
Paper
June
ISSAI Interdisciplinary Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, Vila Nova de Cerveira (PRT). Attendance.
Activity
April
Dagstuhl Seminar "Computational Creativity Meets Digital Literary Studies" (19172), Schloss Dagstuhl (GER). Speaker.
Talk
March
Conference on Creative Multilingualism: The Creative Power of Metaphor, Oxford (UK). Attendance.
Activity
March
IK19 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Out Of Your Senses. From Data To Insight". Attendance.
Activity
2018
March
IK18 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Me, Myself and I". 3rd Best Poster Award. Poster presenter.
Paper
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.
Talk
Good AIfternoon Colloquium, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). Introduction to Computational Creativity. Invited Speaker.
Talk
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.
Talk
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.
Paper
2017
March
IK17 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Creativity and Intelligence in Brains and Machines". Attendance.
Activity
Outreach Talk, UCD School of Computer Science Opening Evening, Dublin (IRL). Speaker.
Talk
High-Concepts, Low-Downs. Workshop on Computational Creativity, UCD Dublin (IRL). Speaker.
Talk
Bachelor of Science, Cognitive Science (GPA 1.1 with distinction) - University Osnabrueck (GER). Ideograms as Semantic Primes: Emoji in Computational Linguistic Creativity. Graduate.
Award
2016
September
NTU EEE-NVIDIA Deep Learning Day workshop Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Participation.
Activity
April
2nd PROSECCO Code Camp on Computational Creativity, Antwerp Belgium (bestofbotworlds.com). Participation.
Activity
March
IK16 Interdisciplinary College, Guenne (GER). "Transitions and Transformations in Cognition, Biology and Interactive Systems". Attendance.
Activity
RISE Scholarship 2016, DAAD. Awardee.
Award
Internship - Prediction of optimal brain surgery in epileptic patients, Dauwels Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Intern.
Role
ERASMUS+ Scholarship 2016. Awardee.
Award
Internship - Computational Creativity, The Creative Language System Group, University College Dublin, Ireland. Intern.
Role
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.
Activity
Cognium Macaque Laboratory Bremen. Introduction to neuroscientific work on primates by Prof. Michael Koch from Brain Research Institute, Department of Neuropharmacology. Visit.
Activity
GAP.9 Ninth International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. Assistance.
Activity