Awards

Brain Mind Body 2021 Awards

Four $500 Prize Awards, two each for Best Interactive Posters and Best Live Demonstrations, were conferred at Brain Mind Body 2021 during the closing ceremony.  The following students among presenting authors of submitted abstracts were selected to receive these awards:

Best Interactive Posters:

First Prize:

Xiaoxiao Sun

Columbia University, NY USA

EEG alpha phase synchronized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for non-invasive treatment of major depression disorder

Second Prize:

Leon Lange

University of Osnabrück, Germany

EEG and eye gaze decoding of aesthetic emotion arousal while viewing fine art

Second Prize (Shared):

Dafina Sopi, Sajeda Amin, Trisha Satish, Sarah Ron, and Parker Carnahan

UC San Diego, CA USA

Modeling regulation of cortisol balance for stress resilience and improved mental health

Best Live Demonstrations:

First Prize:

Akshay Paul and Preston Fowler

UC San Diego, CA USA

A 32-ch neural interface system-on-chip (NISoC) for low-power low-noise electrophysiology

Second Prize:

Laura Hainke

Mentalab, Munich, Germany

Mentalab Explore: High precision wireless biosensor technology

In addition, IEEE Brain Best Paper Awards were presented to the following finalists of the IEEE EMBC 2021 Student Contest:

Antonio Gogeascoechea Hernandez

University of Twente

Identification of Motor Unit Twitch Properties in the Intact Human In Vivo

Shadi Sartipi

University of Rochester

EEG Emotion Recognition via Graph-based Spatio-Temporal Attention Neural Networks