Curriculum Vitae

Short Bio

Fabien LOTTE obtained a M.Sc., a M.Eng. and a PhD degree in computer sciences, all from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Rennes, France, in 2005 (M.Sc., M.Eng.) and 2008 (PhD). His PhD Thesis received both the PhD Thesis award 2009 from AFRIF (French Association for Pattern Recognition) and the PhD Thesis award 2009 accessit (2nd prize) from ASTI (French Association for Information Sciences and Technologies). In 2009 and 2010, he was a research fellow at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore, working in the Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory. From January 2011 to September 2019, he was a Research Scientist (with tenure) at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France, in team Potioc (http://team.inria.fr/potioc/). He obtained an Habilitation (HDR) in Computer Science from the University of Bordeaux in September 2016. Between October 2016 and January 2018, he spent 1-year as a visiting scientist at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, in Cichocki's laboratory for advanced brain signal processing. Since October 2019, he is a Research Director (DR2) at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France, still in team Potioc.

His research interests include Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), human-computer interaction, pattern recognition and brain signal processing. He is part of the editorial boards of the journals Brain-Computer Interfaces (since 2016), Journal of Neural Engineering (since 2016) and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (since 2021). He is also co-specialty chief editor of Frontiers in Neuroergonomics: Neurotechnology and System Neuroergonomics. He co-edited the books "Brain-Computer Interfaces 1: foundations and methods" and "Brain-Computer Interfaces 2: technology and applications", published both in French and in English in 2016, as well as the book "Brain-Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advance" published in 2018 . In 2016, he was the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant (project BrainConquest) to develop his research on BCI.


Detailed Curriculum Vitae


  • since October 2019

Inria Research Director (DR2 - with tenure) at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest / LaBRI, France, in team Potioc

  • February & November 2019

Visiting Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Institute of Global Innovation Research, Tanaka Team, Tokyo, Japan

  • January 2011 - September 2019

Inria Research Scientist (CRCN - with tenure) at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest / LaBRI, France

(until December 2011: team Iparla, since January 2012: team Potioc, a child of Iparla)

Research scientist 2nd class until December 2012, Research Scientist 1st class since January 2013

  • October 2016-January 2018

Visiting scientist at RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI), Cichocki’s advanced brain signal processing laboratory, Wakoshi, Japan (1-year spent there in total on that period)

  • September 2016

Obtained an Accreditation to Lead Researches (Habilitation thesis – HDR) in Computer Science, from Bordeaux University

  • July-August 2015

Visiting Scientist in the Sugiyama laboratory, the University of Tokyo, Japan

  • January 2009 - December 2010

Research Fellow at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Signal Processing department, Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory, Singapore

  • December 2008

Obtained a PhD degree in computer sciences from National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Rennes, France

This PhD Thesis received both the AFRIF PhD Thesis award 2009 and the ASTI PhD Thesis award 2009 accessit (2nd prize)

  • October-November 2008

Visiting PhD student in the Hirose Tanikawa cyber interface Laboratory, the university of Tokyo, Japan

  • October 2005-December 2008

PhD student at IRISA / Inria / INSA Rennes, Bunraku team, France

Member of the OpenViBE project

  • July 2005

Obtained an engineer diploma (Master of Engineering) in computer science from INSA Rennes, France.

Obtained a Master of Science in computer science, with concentration on artificial intelligence and images, from INSA Rennes/University of Rennes I, France (rank: 1st/59)

  • 2002-2005

Studies at the computer science department at the INSA of Rennes engineering school, France (rank: 1st/56 and 1st/55)

  • 2000-2002

Studies at the INSA of Rennes engineering school, general cycle, France

  • 2000

Scientific baccalaureat (equivalent to A level) with distinction, speciality: mathematics


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