Travel Awards

Student and Post-doc Travel Awards

During the abstract submission process, we invite students to apply for Travel Awards. These awards will be reviewed by the Young Talent Committee and will be allocated based on the scientific merit of the abstract submitted with additional considerations to ensure a diverse cohort of awardees.

The number of Travel Awards awarded, and amounts granted might vary according to the level of funding.

To be considered, applicants must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program or be engaged in postdoctoral studies, within five years of their terminal degree. Preference will be given to applicants who have not received a scholarship to attend the BCI Meeting in previous years.

How to Apply

Applicants must be BCI members in good standing and submit an abstract through the regular abstract submission process.

Applicants must indicate that they are applying for a Student Award within the abstract submission form and submit proof of studentship.  Please ensure to name the PDF document as follows: “TravelAward.FirstName.LastName”
(e.g. “TravelAward.Bob.Sacamano”)

Applications open: November 7, 2024
Deadline: January 16, 2025

2023 Student Award Recipients
  • Yahia Ali, Georgia Tech & Emory University
  • Julia Berezutskaya, University Medical Center Utrecht
  • Mariana Branco, University Medical Center Utrecht
  • Stephanie Cernera, University of California, San Francisco
  • Xinlin Chen, Duke University
  • Nikole Chetty, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Maria de Araújo Vitória, Maastricht University
  • Stefan Ehrlich, Harvard Medical School
  • Matthias Eidel, University of Würzburg
  • Dylan Gaines, Michigan Technological University
  • Tan Gemicioglu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Julieth Gomez, University of Florida
  • Jose Gonzalez Espana, University of Houston
  • Elise Grevet, Université de Bordeaux
  • Whitney Griggs, Caltech
  • Jake Gusman, Brown University
  • Yiyuan Han, University of Essex
  • Taylor Hobbs, University of Pittsburgh
  • Alicia Howell-Munson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Brian Irvine, University of Calgary
  • Nazmun Nahar Khan, Kansas State University
  • Reinmar Kobler, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
  • Deland Liu, University of Texas at Austin
  • Xuan Ma, Northwestern University
  • Alexander McClanahan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  • Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, Stanford University
  • Elena Mongiardini, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Natalya Shelchkova, University of Chicago
  • Prashanth Prakash, Northwestern University
  • Kara Presbrey, University of California San Francisco
  • Ilaria Quattrocciocchi, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Alexander Remsik, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • David Sabatini, University of Chicago
  • Hunter Schone, National Institutes of Health
  • Sarah Seko, University of California – San Francisco
  • Venkata S Aditya Tarigoppula, Synchron
  • Ceci Verbaarschot, University of Pittsburgh
  • Angela Vujic, MIT
  • Maitreyee Wairagkar, University of California – Davis
2021 Student Award Recipients (vBCI)

The award was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

Maryam Alimardani, Tilburg University
Fatih Altindis, Abdullah Gul University
Camille Benaroch, INRIA Université de Bordeaux
James Bennett, The University of Melbourne
Luigi Bianchi, Tor Vergata
Mariana Branco, UMC Utrecht
Sebastian Castaño-Candamil, University of Freiburg
Stephanie Cernera, University of Florida
Yin-Jui Chang, University of Texas at Austin
Kuan-Jung Chiang, UCSD
Marie-Constance Corsi, ICM
Debadatta Dash, The University of Texas at Austin
Brian Dekleva, University of Pittsburgh
Jacobo Fernandez-Vargas, University of Essex
Zachary Freudenburg, UMC Utrecht
Jesus Garcia Salinas, INAOE
Francisco Guerreiro Fernandes, UMC Utrecht
Yiyuan Han, University of Essex
Nils Harmening, Technical University Berlin
Tonatiuh Hernández-del-Toro, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Fumiaki Iwane, The University of Texas at Austin
Zeanna Jadavji, University of Calgary
Tushar Kendre, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Eli Kinney-Lang, University of Calgary/Alberta Children’s Hospital
Wambugu Kironji, Duke University
Franziska Klein, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Wonjun Ko, Korea University
Moonyoung Kwon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Sacha Leinders, UMC Utrecht
Ravikiran Mane, Nanyang Technological University
Ciaran McGeady, University of Glasgow
Anja Meunier, University of Vienna
Alexandre Moly, CEA / Leti
Mahta Mousavi, UC San Diego
Kevin Nathan, University of Houston
Michael O’Leary, University of Pittsburgh
Rupert Ortner
Victoria Peterson, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Léa Pillette, INRIA Université de Bordeaux
Akshay Ravindran, University of Houston
Tharun Reddy, IIT Kanpur
Neethu Robinson, Nanyang Technological University
Vera Röhr, Technische Universität Berlin
Sujit Roy, Ulster University
Jeremy Saal, Maastricht University
Marcia Saul, Bournemouth University
Andreea Ioana Sburlea, Graz University of Technology
Anouck Schippers, UMC Utrecht
Jan Sosulski, University Freiburg
Busra Susam, University of Pittsburgh
Jordy Thielen, Donders Institute
Davide Valeriani, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
Lisa-Marie Vortmann, University of Bremen
Sarah Wandelt, California Institute of Technology
Guy Wilson, Stanford University
Chelsea Woodworth, University of Pittsburgh
Maria Sayu Yamamoto, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Lin Yao, Cornell University
Yuhui Zhao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Philipp Ziebell, University of Wuerzburg

2018 Student Award Recipients

The award was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation with support from IEEE and OpenBCI.

Miguel Angrick, University of Bremen
Yuri Antonacci, Sapienza University of Rome
Ruslan Aydarkhanov, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Julia Berezutskaya, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, UMC Utrecht
Gregory Canal, Georgia Institute of Technology
Maria Cervera de la Rosa, MindMaze
Kuan-Jung, Chiang, SCCN / UCSD
Sam Colachis, The Ohio State University
Emma Colamarino, Sapienza University of Rome
Tiffany Corbet, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Katie Dhuyvetter, Kansas State University
Karen Dijkstra, Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain
Nir Even-Chen, Stanford University
Fatemeh Fahimi, Nanyang Technological University
Robert Flint, Northwestern University
Mélodie Fouillen, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Bruna Girvent, Northeastern University
Paula Gonzalez Navarro, Northeastern University
Bijay Guragain, University of North Dakota
Yu Hao, Cornell University
Luis Guillermo Hernandez Rojas, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Angelica Herrera, University of Pittsburgh
Sheng-Hsiou Hsu, UC San Diego
David Hübner, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Christopher Hughes, University of Pittsburgh
Sarah Ismail Hosni, University of Rhode Island
Zeanna Jadavji, University of Calgary
Roohollah Jafari Deligani, University of Rhode Island
Eli Kinney-Lang, University of Edinburgh
Reinmar Kobler, Graz University of Technology
Koji Koizumi, The University of Tokyo
Laurens Krol, Technische Universität Berlin
Srdjan Lesaja, Old Dominion University
Hadar Levi Aharoni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jinling Lian, Beijing Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Lim, University of California, Irvine
Ravikiran Mane, Nanyang Technological University
Jianjun Meng, University of Minnesota
Jelena Mladenovic, Potioc Inria
Mahta Mousavi, UC San Diego
Md Rakibul Mowla, Kansas State University
Sebastian Nagel, University of Tuebingen
Brett Paffrath, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Elmar G. Pels, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, UMC Utrecht
Yufan Peng, University of Macau
Joana Pereira, TUGraz
Nina Petric-Gray, University of Glasgow
Léa Pillette, Inria LaBRI
Luca Pion-Tonachini, University of California San Diego
Sriram Ravindran, University of California San Diego
Sébastien Rimbert, Inria
Dylan Royston, University of Pittsburgh
Efraim Salari, University Medical Center Utrecht
Soshi Samejima, University of Washington
Eliana Santos, Federal University of ABC
Jan Sosulski, University Freiburg
Sarah Thomas, University of Kentucky
Eric Trautmann, Stanford University
Federica Turi, Inria Sophia Antipolis Mediterranée
Mukta Vaidya, Northwestern University
Ceci Verbaarschot, Radboud University
Ko Wonjun, Korea University
Xiaoqian Yu, University of South Florida
Xixie Zhang, Technical University of Berlin

2016 Student Award Recipients

The award was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation

Jitka Annen, University of Liège  
Nivedita Arora, Georgia Institute of Technology 
Bryan Baxter, University of Minnesota  
Chadwick Boulay, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute & University of Ottawa 
Sebastián Castaño Candamil, University of Freiburg 
Hohyun Cho, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology 
Jillian Clements, Duke University 
Tiffany Corbet, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 
Álvaro Costa García, Miguel Hernández University of Elche  
Anibal Cotrina Atencio, Federal University of Espirito Santo 
Sharlene Flesher, University of Pittsburgh 
Elliott Forney, Colorado State University  
Bruna Girvent, Northeastern University 
Sinan Gok, New Jersey Institute of Technology 
Paula Gonzalez-Navarro, Northeastern University 
Marzieh Haghighi, Northeastern University 
Christian Herff, University of Bremen  
Zahra Khaliliardali, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)  
Eli Kinney-Lang, University of Edinburgh 
Takumi Kodama, University of Tsukuba  
Louis Korczowski, University Grenoble-Alpes 
Avinash Kumar Singh, National Chiao Tung University  
Ilya Kuzovkin, University of Tartu 
Hadar Levi Aharoni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Chiara Liti, University of Rome Tor Vergata 
Adrien Martel, Trinity College Dublin 
Stephanie Martin, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 
Bojana Mirkovic, University of Oldenburg 
Mahta Mousavi, University of California, San Diego 
Hooman Nezamfar, Northeastern University 
Sumner Norman, University of California, Irvine  
Patrick Ofner, Graz University of Technology 
Mariana Pedroso Branco, University Medical Center Utrecht 
Joana Pereira, Graz University of Technology 
Md Rakibul Mowla, Kansas State University 
Dylan Royston, University of Pittsburgh 
Efraim Salari, Utrecht University 
Ignatius Sapto Condro Atmawan, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg 
Anouck Schippers, Leiden University 
Andreas Schwarz, Graz University of Technology 
Margaret Thompson, University of Washington 
Alejandro Antonio Torres-Garda, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electrónica  
Si Long Tou, University of Michigan 
Max van den Boom, Medical Center Utrecht 
Thibault Verhoeven, Ghent University 
Maitreyee Wairagkar, University of Reading 
Mark Wronkiewicz, University of Washington 
Xiao Xiaolin, Tianjin University 
Hagar Yamin, Tel-Aviv university and Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center 
Catharina Zich, University of Oldenburg 
Raney Folland, University of Washington 
Ivan Walker, Georgia Institute of Technology 

2013 Student Award Recipients

The award was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health

Ramses Alcaide
Marc Bruurmijn
Robrt Flint
Disha Gupta
Tobias Kaufmann
Christine King
Jie Lu
Boyla Mainsah
Charlie Matlack
Aisha Moinuddin
Joseph O’Doherty
Umut Orhan
Amy Orsborn
Lucia Rita Quitadamo
Patrick Sadtler
Hasimrat Singh
William Speier
Samantha Sprague
David Thompson
Marija Uscumlic
Ran Xiao
Atieh Bamdadian
Floriana Pichiorri

2010 Student Award Recipients

Karolyn Babalola, Georgia University of Technology  
Daniel Berry, East Tennessee State University  
Guangyu Bin, Tsinghua University  
Zachery Cashero, Colorado State University 
Stephen Foldes, Case Western Reserve University  
Elisabeth Friedrich, University of Graz  
Andrew Geronimo, Pennsylvania State University  
Dora Hermes, UMC Utrecht  
Dandan Huang, Virginia Commonwealth University  
Han-Jeong Hwang, Yonsei University 
Cecilia Maeder, Berlin Institute of Technology 
Christhain Potes, University of Texas 
Manuel Gómez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute 
Linsey Roijendijk, Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behavior  
Jessica Shanahan, Algoma University Brain-Computer Interface Lab  
Michele Tavella, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne  
Andrew Whitford, University of Pittsburgh  
Matthias Witte, University of Tübingen  
Jonas Zimmermann, Newcastle University