BCI Thursdays: Online Events
Next Generations (Free events)
The BCI Society Next Generations series is intended for students to provide technical background on some cutting-edge topics in BCI research.
Living with BCI: Clinical Applications and Patient Perspectives
The inaugural event of the BCI user/patient series
Thursday 24 October at 4.30pm CEST (10.30am EDT)
Dr. Lucas Struber, a Senior Researcher at Clinatec (CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France) will present their work, and their patient Mathieu De Graaf, a quadriplegic Spinal Cord Injury patient implanted with the Clinatec chronic ECoG device WIMAGINE, will answer to some questions of general interest in the field of BCI for clinical applications from patient’s perspective.
Speakers:
Mathieu De Graaf
My name is Mathieu De Graaf, I’m 34. My accident happened 15 years ago, when I was 19. I had a cervical SCI and I became tetraplegic. Before my accident, I was in first year of medicine. I switched to pharmacy and I’m now hospital pharmacist. I joined the BCI clinical trial in Clinatec in 2019. So far I come to the center 15 days every 2 months for BCI experiments.
Lucas Struber
I’m Lucas Struber, a research-engineer specialized in implanted ECoG-based BCI for patients with motor disabilities at the Clinatec facility, part of the CEA-LETI research center in Grenoble, France. With a background in signal processing and a PhD in motion analysis for rehabilitation, I then became interested in behavioral neuroscience to investigate how motor memories are formed. I joined Clinatec’s BCI project 2 years ago which enabled me to apply my previous experience to advancing cutting-edge neurotechnology aimed at restoring patients’ ability to move. In particular, I’m responsible for BCI training with patients, data processing to evaluate decoding performance and patients progress, as well as setting up new clinical trials.
Next Generation events are recorded and the recordings available here.
Zoom Registration
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Ethical Frontiers of BCI Technology
Thursday, Nov 7 at 11am- 12:00pm EST (5-6pm CET)
Speakers:
Susan Boehnke
Queen’s University & Connected Minds
Dr. Boehnke is the Lead of Training Committee for Connected Minds, an organization which supports research and trainingprograms, collaborations, and knowledge mobilization to create a global hub of critical transdisciplinary scholarship on the configuration of social power and systemic barriers that underpin advances in emerging technologies.
Dr. Boehnke is Associate Professor and Senior Scientist and Lead-Executive Education, Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen’s University where she teaches Neuromarketing and Neurolaw sessions as well as the Autism session of Disorders of the Nervous System. Dr. Boehnke also has extensive research experience in the fields of sensory, motor and cognitive neuroscience, and is currently focusing on Alzheimer’s Disease. She obtained her PhD in Neuroscience/Psychology at Dalhousie University and did a Postdoctoral Fellowship, Neurophysiology at Queen’s University.
Marcello Ienca
Technical University of Munich
Professor Ienca conducts research on the ethically sustainable development of AI systems and neurotechnologies. He uses theoretical and empirical methods to investigate the ethical, social and political implications of these technologies focusing on topics such as the brain-machine interface, the relationship between AI and human cognition, and the ethical processing of Big Data. He is known for his pioneering work on neurorights. He is the Neuroethics Lead of the International Brain Initiative and an expert advisor to the UN.
Ienca studied philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Rome, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, New York University and KU Leuven. In 2018, he completed his PhD in biomedical ethics at the University of Basel with summa cum laude honors. He then worked as a postdoc and senior researcher at ETH Zurich. In 2021, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford and founded the Intelligent Systems Ethics Group at EPFL. In 2023, Dr. Ienca was appointed to the professorship for Ethics of AI & Neuroscience at TUM.
Next Generation events are recorded and the recordings available here.
Zoom Registration
There are no fees to participate in the Next Generations events but you must register to participate.