Early Career Award
The BCI Society Early Career Award
After exciting editions of the BCI Society Early Career Award (ECA) in 2020,2021, and 2023 the BCI Society is now pleased to announce ECA 2024. The ECA recognizes an early career scientist for outstanding work that advances the BCI field, in the biological, methodological, and/or translational aspects thereof. More specifically, the ECA 2024 will recognize an individual or individuals who have contributed significantly to i) an understanding of brain structure/function, and/or brain signals related to BCIs, and/or ii) scientific progress of BCI research through development of algorithms, software and/or hardware related to BCIs and/or, iii) BCI application or end-user-oriented research. Nominees must have a history of scholarly work that has advanced the field. The ECA will be presented in early 2025.
Evaluation
Applications will be reviewed by jurors appointed by the BCI Society Awards Committee. The 2024 BCI Society Awards Committee is composed of Donatella Mattia, Mariska Vansteensel, Theresa Vaughan, Dean Krusienski and Matt Fifer.
Please note, this year’s BCI Society Awards Committee and the Jury will have the authority to hand out one, two, or no award, depending on the submitted nominations. Jurors will be requested to consider diversity (including gender, geography, topic of research) when making their recommendation.
2024 Early Career Award Recipient
Marie-Constance Corsi
NERV team, Inria, Paris Brain Institute
Marie-Constance Corsi is an early-career researcher who began a tenured research position at Inria in 2022, joining the NERV team at the Paris Brain Institute (France). After completing her studies in telecommunications engineering at IMT Atlantique (Brest, France), she pursued a PhD focused on developing alternative magnetoencephalography sensors—optically pumped magnetometers—at CEA-LETI (Grenoble, France), while concurrently earning a Master’s degree in Clinical Neuroscience.
In 2016, she began postdoctoral research at the Paris Brain Institute, where she developed computational methods using multimodal and longitudinal approaches to improve brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Her current work focuses on identifying neurophysiological markers of BCI performance to enhance classification accuracy and on developing tools for the monitoring and diagnosis of neurological disorders.
She previously served as Secretary General of CORTICO, the French academic association promoting advances in BCI, and as Co-Chair of the Postdocs and Students Committee of the BCI Society.
2023 Recipient
University of California, Davis
2021 Recipients
Camille Jeunet
Aquitaine Institute for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, Univ. Bordeaux & CNRS, France
Frank Willett
Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory, Stanford University, USA
2020 Recipient
Sebastian Halder
Lecturer, University of Essex
Thank you to our jurors for the 2024 Early Career Awards:
Jennifer Collinger
Sebastian Halder
Solaiman Shokur
Michael Tangerman
Jon Wolpaw