MOHANAD
KANDIL
CS @ TUM // 
MEDIA LAB // BUILDER & EXPLORER
MUNICH, DE
I BUILT AN UNDERWATER ROBOT TO CLEAN OUR HOME POOL AT 9. TAUGHT 800 STUDENTS TO BUILD ROBOTS. WON PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS ACROSS THE GLOBE IN CODING AND ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS LIKE WRO, ROBOCUP, AND ISEF. CROSSED 5 COUNTRIES. NOW BUILDING AI AGENTS AND RESEARCHING BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES AT .
I discovered HCI in high school and it rewired how I thought about building things. Not just making software work, but making it feel right. Publishing at CHI became the dream.
In my very first semester at TUM, I started research by building robots for students suffering from ADHD and tested them in hospitals in Spain. That work turned into 3 published papers with 104 citations.
Fast forward to now: next week I am presenting a paper at CHI 2026 with Media Lab. From dreaming about it in a classroom in Egypt to standing on that stage. The loop closed.
My research sits at the intersection of LLMs, brain-computer interfaces, and human-AI interaction. I am interested in how we can build systems that understand not just what people say, but what they mean and need. Next up: incoming researcher at Stanford.
Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Group