Program
Brain, Mind, and Body: Cognitive Neuroengineering for Health and Wellness
A Virtual Symposium and Workshop
Dec. 15-16, 2021
All times listed in Pacific Time (PT, UTC -8)
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
8:00am-8:20am PT -- Overture
8:00am PT
8:20am-10:45am PT -- Mini-symposium: Unobtrusive and minimally invasive neurotechnologies
8:20am PT
Circuit design for low power neural interface implants
Milin Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing China
9:10am PT
Break
10:10am PT
Advances in interface technologies towards greater signal quality, density, resilience and comfort in physiological and metabolic sensing and biofeedback
Open discussion with speakers and attendees
10:45am-11:00am PT -- Poster highlights
Co-chairs:
Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
Maryam Shanechi, USC, Los Angeles CA, USA
11:00am-noon PT -- Interactive poster presentations (over lunch break)
Posters and highlights (16 presentations)
Breakout Room #1: Minimally Invasive and Unobtrusive Neurotechnologies
The Polymer implantable electrode foundry: Shared-resource fabrication of soft polymer-based electrode arrays for minimally invasive compliant neural interfaces
Kee Scholten, Xin Liu, Huijing Xu, Dong Song, and Ellis Meng
USC, Los Angeles CA, USA
Non-invasive neuromodulation using a dense magnetic coil array with multi-locus and multi-site excitation patterning
Matthew C. Smith and Daniel F. Sievenpiper
UC San Diego, CA USA
EEG alpha phase synchronized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for non-invasive treatment of major depression disorder
Xiaoxiao Sun, Zhixian Han, Josef Faller, Jayce Doose, Mark George, Truman Brown, and Paul Sajda
Columbia University, NY USA, and Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Breakout Room #2: Virtual-Reality EEG Brain-Computer Interfaces
Apollo distributed control task virtual-reality brain-computer interface for virtual spacecraft navigation
Yinuo Qin and Paul Sajda
Columbia University, NY USA
Towards motor function rehabilitation through EEG and inertial feedback in multi-sensor neural interface systems
Jamal Jackson, Joseph O'Neill, Rutledge Detyens, Jordon Gilmore, and Ryan Integlia
The Citadel, The College of Charleston, Clemson University, USA
Biometric subject identification by EEG time-frequency analysis
B. Divya, A.S. Retnapandian, A. Yaamini, and A. Kavitha
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering, India
Signal reconstruction for gaze-related electroencephalograms in mobile virtual environments
Chiyuan Chang, Tzyy-Ping Jung, and Ying Choon Wu
UC San Diego, CA UCSD
Breakout Room #3: Emotion and Compassion
Digital-meditation intervention for physician trainees to enhance self-compassion, empathy and cognition
S. Jaiswal, S Purpura, J Manchandani, P. Balasubramani, and J. Mishra
UC San Diego, CA USA, and IIT Kanpur, India
EEG and eye gaze decoding of aesthetic emotion arousal while viewing fine art
Leon Lange and Ying Choon Wu
University of OsnabrĂĽck, Germany, and UC San Diego, CA USA
EEG spatiotemporal attention discrimination for emotion recognition
Shadi Sartipi, Mastaneh Torkamani-Azar, and Mujdat Cetin
University of Rochester, NY USA
Effects of caffeine and other stimulants on emotion EEG brain states
Austin Ajami, Seth Thomas, Jordon Gilmore, Prosenjit Chatterjee, and Ryan Integlia
The Citadel, College of Charleston, Clemson University, USA
Adaptive resonance modeling of emotional episodic memory encoding and recall
Elakiya Sivakumar and Kavitha Anandan
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering, India
Breakout Room #4: Big Data and Machine Learning in Neuroscience and Health
NeuroTrALE: Neuron tracing active learning for large-scale brain mapping
Lars Gjesteby, Michael Snyder, David Chavez, Dylan Pollack, Adam Michaleas, Lee Kamentsky, Kwanghun Chung, Sara Nicole Burke, and Laura Brattain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and University of Florida, USA
Modeling regulation of cortisol balance for stress resilience and improved mental health
Dafina Sopi, Sajeda Amin, Trisha Satish, Sarah Ron, Parker Carnahan
UC San Diego, CA USA
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting for tissue discrimination
Muhammed Erziku
University of Gondar, Ethiopia
Context-free grammar syntactic analysis of RNA sequences for virus discrimination
Saleh Hamdi
University of Monastir, Tunesia
noon-3:00pm PT -- Mini-symposium: Cognitive neural engineering and natural intelligence
Co-chairs:
Metin Akay, University of Houston, TX, USA
Sridevi Sarma, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
noon PT
Neuromorphic intelligence: Electronic circuits for emulating neural processing systems and their application to pattern recognition
Giacomo Indiveri, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
12:50pm PT
From brain to behaviors: Unobtrusive measures of cognitive function
Holly B. Jimison, Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA
1:40pm PT
Break
2:40pm PT
Advances in brain-inspired signal processing, machine intelligence, and closed-loop neuromodulation for health and wellness
Open discussion with speakers and attendees
Thursday, December 16, 2021
8:00am-10:45am PT -- Mini-symposium: Translational neural engineering for health and wellness
8:00am PT
Keynote -- Cellular models of human neural aging, Alzheimer's disease and beyond
Fred H. (Rusty) Gage, Salk Institute, La Jolla CA, USA
9:10am PT
Break
9:20am PT
Rhythms from on-body sensors and ambient data support individual and population-scale choice
Benjamin Smarr, UC San Diego, CA, USA
10:10am PT
Transformative clinical advances resulting from synergies between engineering and medicine, including electroceuticals and neurofeedback
Open discussion with speakers and attendees
10:45am-11:00am PT -- Demonstration highlights
Co-chairs:
Maryam Shanechi, USC, Los Angeles CA, USA
Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
11:00am-noon PT -- Live demonstrations (over lunch break)
Demonstrations and highlights (6 presentations)
Breakout Room #1: Multimodal Neural Interfaces
Mentalab Explore: High precision and mobility multimodal biosensor BCI system
Sebastian Herberger, Alex Platt, Laura Hainke, and Mohamad Atayi
Mentalab, Germany
A 32-ch neural interface system-on-chip (NISoC) for low-power low-noise electrophysiology
Akshay Paul, Preston Fowler, Yuchen Xu, and Gert Cauwenberghs
UC San Diego, CA USA
Neuromodulatory control with continuous-time analog neurodynamics in silico
Soumil Jain and Paolo Cachi
UC San Diego, CA USA and Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Breakout Room #2: Real-Time Brain State Decoding
Auditory health assessment and brain state monitoring with in-ear EEG
Akshay Paul, Alice Tor, Benjamin Hofflich, Min Lee, Yuchen Xu, and Gert Cauwenberghs
UC San Diego, CA USA
ExBrainable: Cellular neural network model training and visualization in EEG decoding
Ya-Lin Huang, Chia-Ying Hsieh, Jian-Xue Huang, and Chun-Shu Wei
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Autoregressive causal statistical inference from online EEG and ECG
Saleh Hamdi
University of Monastir, Tunesia
noon-1:10pm PT -- Panel: Transforming global health through innovation in sustainable technology
Open discussion with leaders in industry, clinical practice, and public policy
Panelists:
Ellis Meng, USC, Los Angeles CA, USA
Tim Mullen, Intheon Inc, San Diego CA, USA
Jose Pons, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, IL, USA
Maryam Shanechi, USC, Los Angeles CA, USA
Esra Tasali, University of Chicago, IL, USA
1:10pm-1:20pm PT -- Break
1:20pm-2:40pm PT -- Panel: Melding mind and body in the age of the brain
Panelists:
Metin Akay, University of Houston, TX, USA
Paul Berger, Ohio State University, OH, USA
Damien Coyle, Ulster University, UK
Jack Gallant, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
Carolyn McGregor, Ontaria Tech University, Canada
Rikky Muller, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
Jose Principe, University of Florida, FL, USA
Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
Paul Sajda, Columbia University, NY, USA
Mike Schneider, NIST, Gaithersburg MD, USA
Michael Smith, Furaxa, Orinda CA, USA
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2:40pm-3:00pm PT -- Finale
2:40pm PT
Award presentations
IEEE Brain EMBS Best Paper Awards -- Presented by Jack Gallant and Paul Sajda
BMB'2021 Student Best Poster & Demo Awards -- Presented by Maryam Shanechi and Nitish Thakor
2:50pm PT
Summary and closing remarks
Metin Akay, University of Houston, TX, USA
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute, La Jolla CA, USA