The IEEE SMC 2018 8th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems (BMI) will be held on October 7-10, 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan as part of the program of SMC 2018 – the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present research results, facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between researchers, developers and consumers of BMI technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of BMI.
The workshop is organized by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Brain-Machine Interfaces Systems and is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Brain Initiative. Participation is free to all registered SMC 2018 attendees. The theme of this year’s workshop is:
International Brain Initiative: Bringing Together Disciplines and Countries
Program at a glance
You can download here:
- Organizers welcome message (pdf)
- Program book (pdf)
- Program-at-a-glance (pdf)
- Program of the Global Brain Initiative meeting (pdf).
The IEEE SMC Society and the IEEE President, James Jefferies, will host a special meeting of global Brain Initiative leaders from Japan, China, US (NSF and NIH), Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Europe (HBP), IEEE, and other groups working on large-scale multi-year brain projects.
This meeting is driven by input from the global Brain Initiatives representatives, and we hope these discussions will support the efforts of the Kavli Foundation and others to establish an International Brain Initiative. Topics include the current status of global Brain Initiatives and the International Brain Initiative, future collaboration and cooperation opportunities with each other, commercialization and standardization, neuroethics, and data sharing. We will also highlight the IEEE Brain Initiative and the brain research and neurotechnology efforts that are happening across IEEE. The meeting will also be attended by the president of the International Neuroethics Society. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present research results, facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between researchers, developers, and consumers of BMI technology.
We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of BMI, including affective BMIs, hybrid BMIs, deep learning for BMIs, BMI-controlled robots, neurorehabilitation, and BMI for VR/AR applications. These and other topics represent both challenges to the field and a tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multidisciplinary research, involving not only peers with expertise in the field of BMI, but also those with expertise in systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics, neuroscience, medicine, robotics, amongst other disciplines. The four-day workshop will feature tutorials, panels, a brain-computer interface hackathon, a number of prominent invited speakers,
presentations of contributed papers, and the brain initiatives meeting. This is the third year that the IEEE SMC BMI Workshop is hosting a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Hackathon with over $4,000 in prizes. The BCI Hackathon is a brainstorming and collaborative marathon designed to rapidly produce fully functional BCI prototypes. The BCI Hackathon will take place on October 7-8, 2018 and provides an environment for innovation and entrepreneurship. Learn more about the IEEE SMC2018 BCI Hackathon projects and teams, how to form or join one, and how to register here. Click here to register to the hackathon student competition
Important Dates
| October 7-10, 2018 | Conference dates |
| October 7-8, 2018 | BMI Hackathon |
| October 8, 2018 | Special Sessions |
| October 8, 2018 | Panel: Standards for Neurotechnologies |
| October 9, 2018 | Meeting of the Global Brain Initiatives |
| October 10, 2018 | Invited talks / Panels |
Program Commitee
General Chair- Michael H. Smith, U. California Berkeley, USA
- Tiago H. Falk, INRS-EMT, Canada
- Christoph Guger, g.tec, Austria
- Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- James, A. Jefferies, IEEE President & CEO
- Michael H. Smith, U. California Berkeley, USA
- Global Current & Emerging Brain Initiatives
- Masayuki Hirata, Osaka Univ., Japan
- Jun Morimoto, ATR, Japan
- Ricardo Chavarriaga, EPFL, Switzerland
- Jing Jin, East China Univ., China
- Riki Matsumoto, Kyoto Univ. Japan
- Yingxu Wang, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
- Kyousuke Kamada, AMU, Japan
- Keiichi Kitajo, Riken BSI, Japan
- Yaoping Hu, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
- Tim Mullen, Intheon, USA
- Shinji Nishimoto, CiNet, Japan
- Vinod Prasad, ITT Palakkad, India
- Ivan Volosyak, HSRW, Germany
- Fei-Yue Wang, CAS, China
- Dongrui Wu, DataNova, USA
- Yu-Fei Huang, Univ. Texas SA, USA
- Margaret Thompson, UW, USA
- Sarah Breinbauer, br41n.io, Austria
- Stuart Mason Dambrot, Critical Thought, USA
Brain hackathon Commitee
Hackathon Chair- Christoph Guger, g.tec, Austria
- Tiago H. Falk, INRS-EMT, Canada
- Kyousuke Kamada, Asahikawa Univ Japan
- Tim Mullen, Intheon, USA
- Kojiro Matsushita, Gifu Univ., Japan
- Takeshi Ogawa, ATR, Japan