Sen Cheng

Sen Cheng is a full Professor in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute for Neural Computation, affiliated with the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He leads the DFG-funded Research Unit FOR 2812 focused on generative episodic memory frameworks.

• Room: NB 3/33, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum
• Contact: +49 (0)234 32-29486 | sen.cheng@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
• ORCID: 0000-0002-6719-8029

Research Focus: His interdisciplinary work bridges episodic memory, spatial navigation, and computational modeling, integrating philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives. Collaborations span RUB and international institutions.

Scientific Contributions: Recent publications explore hippocampal replay mechanisms (2023), cerebellar roles in fear extinction (2022), and theta sequence dynamics (2021). His work leverages

• biological neural networks
• cognitive modeling
• machine learning
• optogenetics
• fMRI

to decode memory systems.

Awards & Grants:

• DFG Research Unit FOR 2812 (Principal Investigator)