News
05/2024
we presented 2 talks and 2 posters at the CORTICO 2024 conference in Nancy, France.
A paper accepted at EUSIPCO 2024, on averaging trajectories on the Riemannian manifold (see section Publications).
5 papers accepted at the Graz BCI conference 2024 (see section Publications).
A book chapter accepted in the book "Mind, Body & Digital Brains" (see section Publications).
3 extended abstracts accepted in the International Neuroergonomics conference (see section Publications).
A journal paper accepted in the Brain-Computer Interface journals on the impact of gender in motor imagery BCI performance (see section Publications).
I gave an invited talk at the French Academy of Science about my work on BCI.
I was opening keynote speaker at the ICCAS conference in Toulouse!
04/2024
The deadline for extended abstracts submission at Neuroergonomics 2024 has been extended. Final deadline: April 15th!
Loic Bechon joined us on ANR project PROTEUS! Welcome (back)!
02/2024
We are organising a special session on "Modern Machine Learning Methods for robust and real-time Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)" at the ESANN 2024 conference! Do not hesitate to submit!
The call for workshop/tutorials at Neuroergonomics 2024 (that we organise in Bordeaux, France, this year) is open. You can submit your proposals until Feburary 15!
The call for abstracts at Neuroergonomics 2024 is Open! Deadline: April 1st!
A journal paper accepted in Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, on a mini-review about aesthetics experience decoding from EEG oscillatory activity (see section Publications).
01/2024
A paper accepted in the The 12th IEEE International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, on Motor Imagery BCI performance prediction based on median nerve stimulation (see section Publications).
Project ERC PoC SPEARS is starting! Alex Pepi just joined us as an engineer to work on this project. Welcome!
12/2023
In Saarbrucken, Germany, for the Kick-off of the Inria-DFKI project NEARBY: an exciting start!
I received the Nature Mentorship Award 2023, in the mid-career category!!
Valérie Marissens-Cueva started her PhD with us on ANR project BCI4IA. Welcome!
11/2023
A paper accepted in the 4th Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience, on Riemannian geometry-based classification algorithms of cardiac signals (see section Publications).
I was a keynote speaker at the 4th Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience in Envigado, in the fascinating Colombia, a great congress!
I gave an invited virtual talk at the USERN 2023 congress.
10/2023
I received the Lovelace-Babbage price from the French academy of science in partnership with the French Society for Informatics!!
Pauline Dreyer started her PhD with us on the ANR PROTEUS project. Welcome!
09/2023
In Torùn, Poland, for the RIKEN AIP-NCU workshop, where I gave an invited talk, and for the BITSCOPE European project meeting.
I was a keynote speaker at the MBT Conference 2.0, "Methods in mobile EEG", a really excellent scientific conference!
08/2023
I am a visiting Professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, in Pr. Toshihisa Tanaka's lab. Thank you for hosting me again Tanaka-sensei!
I am a Keynote speaker at the IntEr-HRI Competition (Intrinsic Error Evaluation during Human -Robot Interaction) of IJCAI 2023 (video available there)
07/2023
I got an ERC Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Grant accepted, in partnership with the FlitSport company, for project SPEARS!!!
I was a keynote speaker at the "colloque EPIQUE", a French-speaking ergonomic psychology conference, great conference!
We got a paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering on modelling complex distributions on the Riemannian manifold, with applications to EEG outlier detections and multimodal EEG classification (see section Publications)
We got a paper accepted in Nature Scientific Data, on a large EEG/BCI data base with user profile information! (see section Publications)
06/2023
At the BCI Meeting 2023 near Bruxelles, where we presented 6 posters, co-organized a workshop, led 2 master classes and 1 lunch with leaders. As usual, really a great conference (maybe even better than before this year!)
In the VivaTech fair 2023 (the biggest Tech fair in Europe), to present our BCI research project NEARBY in a talk with my DFKI colleague Maurice Rekrut
05/2023
Giving a talk on passive BCI for cognitive, affective and conative states estimation from EEG at the NeuroFrance 2023 conference in Lyon, France.
At the CORTICO days meeting in Paris, where we presented a few talks and posters!
We kicked-off ANR project PROTEUS in Paris, hosted by the partner Wisear!
Giving a talk on BCI at the "Digital natives" MMI Colloque of the University Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France
Giving a talk presenting BCI research at Inria Bordeaux during the ONERA-Inria-CNRS-ENSC workshop on Human-Centred Systems in Talence, France
We have an open PhD position to work with us on BCI and its variabilities! See the Job Offer page for details.
A paper accepted in the EUSIPCO conference on EEG Cross-Frequency representation for Riemannian EEG classification! (see section Publications)
04/2023
A paper accepted at the IEEE EMBC conference on baseline selection for ERD/ERS computation and motor imagery classification (see section Publications)
03/2023
In Oldenburg University, Germany, for the Kick-off conference of the Research Training Group Neuromodulation, for which I am a scientific advisory board member. I also gave a talk there.
We kicked-off ANR project BCI4IA in Nancy!
6 abstracts accepted at the International BCI Meeting 2023! (see section Publications)
12/2022
We organize a BCI mini-workshop @ the Inria center at the University of Bordeaux, on December 12th at 15:00, with talks from the members of PhD defence committee of Aline Roc. It is free and open to all, more information here!
We offer 3 internships on BCI in our lab for 2023, see here for more information and to apply!
11/2022
I am very honoured to be the 2022 USERN (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network) Prize Laureate in Formal Science! The USERN Congress was also a really interesting event, in the fantastic Muscat city!
10/2022
In Rome for the IEEE MetroXRAINE conference, where we presented two papers, hosted a special session and organized a special event for our BITSCOPE European project. Great first edition of this conference!
I was the opening keynote speaker of the NeuroAdaptive Technologies conference 2022 (NAT'22). We also presented two abstracts there, and I presented the French BCI research at the first german BCI network meeting that followed that conference. Great times!
03/2022
Two papers accepted at IEEE EMBS EMBC 2022, one on discriminative BCI frequency band selection on the Riemannian manifold, and another one on the relationships between ERD/ERS during motor imagery-BCI use and users' profiles! (see section Publications)
Axel Bouneau joined our BCI group as an engineer, welcome!
02/2022
A paper accepted in Frontiers in Neuroergonomics: Neurotechnologies and System Neuroergonomics, on the Passive BCI competition we organized on cross-session workload estimation from EEG! (see section Publications)
An editorial paper accepted in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: Brain-Computer Interfaces, on the research topic of Long-term training of BCI end-users. (see section Publications)
Several new people joined our BCI group: Marc Welter for a PhD, Cécil Ostertag for a post-doc and Jordan Azzouguen for a Master thesis internship. Welcome!
01/2022
A paper accepted in the Brain-Computer Interface journal, about how characteristics of data-driven features can be used to improve and/or predict BCI performances. (see section Publications)
A paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, about new Riemannian channel selection algorithms to reduce between-session non-stationarities in BCI! (see section Publications)
11/2021
Two open positions to work with me on BCI (one engineer and one PhD student position). See the Job Offer page for details.
10/2021
David Trocellier joined our BCI group as a PhD student, welcome!
09/2021
A paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering about identifying the optimal biased feedback for various BCI users' traits and states (see section Publications)
We presented a paper, a BCI competition, an invited plenary lecture and a workshop on OpenViBE at the 3rd Neuroergonomics conference! (which, by the way, was a very enjoyable conference!). Aurélien Appriou was also awarded the "Young Investigator Award" for his PhD work under my supervision, congratulations Aurélien!
08/2021
Our paper about BioPyC, on our open-source Python software for EEG and physiological signals classification has been accepted in the journal Sensors (see section Publications).
Our book chapter about our research project BrainConquest, about Brain-Computer Interfaces user training, has been published in the issue "Neurotechnologie and Responsible Innovation" of Réalité Industrielles (in French, see section Publications).
07/2021
I am very proud to join the journal IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering as an associate editor!
06/2021
We presented 6 abstracts (see section Publications) at the International BCI meeting and co-organized one workshop there. As always, it was a very enjoyable conference, even with the remote format. We were also very happy to see our works receive both the best student talk award (for Jelena Mladenovic) and the best student poster award (for Maria Sayu Yamamoto). Congrats Jelena and Maria!
04/2021
We have an open PhD position to work with us on "Artificial Intelligence-based non-invasive Neurotechnologies for adaptive and personalized post-stroke motor rehabilitation" at University of Bordeaux / Inria Bordeaux. Apply here before May 17, 2021 (apply for "sujet 6")
12/2020
We are organizing a small online BCI and physiological computing workshop, linked with the PhD defence of Aurélien Appriou, on December 17th!
09/2020
The conversation that we recorded with Pr Stephen Fairclough, for the Mind-Machine post-cast, is online!
06/2020
I gave an online lecture on Mental Imagery-based BCI at the g.tec BCI & Neurotechnology Summer School 2020
05/2020
I gave an interview/talk at the BCI_101 Online Global Series 2020, you can check the video on youtube!
04/2020
A paper accepted at the IEEE EMBC 2020 conference, on detecting EEG outliers on the Riemannian manifold using spectral clustering (see section Publications).
02/2020
A paper accepted in the IEEE System, Man & Cybernetics magazine on machine learning algorithms for cognitive and affective state classification in EEG (see section Publications).
Léna Kolodzienski and Eidan Tzdaka joined us for their master thesis on BCI! Welcome!
01/2020
A paper accepted in the ICASSP conference, on EEG channel selection in a Riemannian manifold for BCI (see section Publications).
The MindAffect company, whose scientific advisory board I am part of, is launching a kickstarter campaign about a very nice open-source BCI maker kit!
An editorial paper accepted in the journal Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology, on neurofeedback and its challenges for integrative clinical neurophysiology studies! (see section Publications).
12/2019
Léa Pillette, one of my PhD students, successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Redefining and Adapting Feedback for Mental-Imagery based Brain-Computer Interface User Training to the Learners' Traits and States". Congratulations Léa!
A paper accepted on PEANUT, our learning companion for mental imagery-based BCI, in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies! (see section Publications)
A paper accepted in Journal of Neural Engineering, about Active Inference for adaptive P300-BCI design! (see section Publications)
11/2019
In Japan for the whole month, at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, as a visiting Associate Professor, in the team of Pr. Toshihisa Tanaka.
Our paper on the value of negative results in BCI research has been accepted in the Brain-Computer Interface journal! (see section Publications)
A paper accepted in the Brain-Computer Interface journal, about the workshops of the 7th International BCI meeting! (see section Publications)
10/2019
Our Master interships for early 2020 are now available, see this page for details and to apply.
Since October 1st, I have been promoted to a Research Director (DR2) position at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest!
A paper accepted in the journal Brain, about Consensus guidelines for Neurofeedback research, under the leadership of Tomas Ros, Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert and Robert Thibault (see section Publications)
In Russia, for the "BCI: Science and Pratice" conference in Samara, where I was an invited plenary speaker. Great conference! The videos of the plenary talks are also online!
09/2019
A journal paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, about Rapid Serial Visual Presentation BCI with pictures, numbers and words! (see section Publications)
In Graz, for the International Graz BCI conference, where we presented 3 papers, organized a workshop on BCI user training and participated to the Cybathlon BCI series!
Jelena Mladnovic, one of my PhD students, successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Computational Modeling of User States and Skills for Optimizing BCI Training Tasks". Congratulations Jelena!
In Leuven, for the PhD defence of Flavio Camarrone, who did interesting work on finger movement decoding from ECoG by using tensor decomposition approaches!
05/2019
We succesfully co-organized the 4th national Neurofeedback day in Bordeaux with Jean-Arthur Micoulaud Franchi, where the theme this year was "Neurofeedback as a tool for cognitive neurosciences"!
3 papers accepted at the International Graz BCI conference 2019, about Neurofeedback of an EEG marker of drowsiness, computational model to predict BCI user performances and the influence of the experimenters on BCI performances (see section Publications)!
Aline Roc joined us as a PhD student (the last PhD student on ERC BrainConquest) to work on training tasks and training programs for mental imagery BCI. Welcome!
04/2019
At IRGO, Bordeaux, a gestion research lab, to give a popularization talk about BCI
We had the visit of Sylvain Chevallier, an associate professor from Univ. Versailles Saint-Quentin, who works on Riemannian machine learning for BCI
We had the visit of Stefanie Enriquez Geppert, an assistant professor from Groningen University and Diede Smit, her PhD student, who work on neural correlates of executive functions in EEG and neurofeedback
Khadijeh Sadatnejad joined us as a post-doc on the ERC BrainConquest, to work on EEG machine learning and signal processing algorithms to favor user training in BCI. Welcome!
Smeety Pramij joined us as a master student intern to help us on various EEG and BCI experiments and data analyses. Welcome!
03/2019
A paper accepted in Journal Sensors, about workload monitoring in the cockpit during real flights, with dry EEG electrodes, in collaboration with Pr. Frederic Dehais and ISAE
In Saclay, to give a class about BCI at Ecole Polytechnique (X) with Anatole Lécuyer
In Torino, Italy, for the NEM Steering Board meeting
Visiting CLLE and ENAC in Toulouse with Camille Jeunet and Anke Brock (respectively), and giving a lecture about passive BCI at ISAE, still in Toulouse, France
In Rennes, for the Time Series Days, where I was an invited speaker and talked about EEG signal processing for BCI
In Lille for the congress of the CORTICO association, the French BCI society, which was great, as always! We presented there 5 abstracts.
02/2019
In Paris, at La Cité des Sciences, to give a popularization talk about BCI, during an event dedicated to BCI co-organized by the French academy of Technology (video here)
Visiting the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, in the great BCI lab of Pr. Toshihisa Tanaka for 10 days, where I also gave a talk about my research. I also visited RIKEN Advance Intelligence Project center thanks to Tomek Rutkowski!
A paper accepted in the Journal "l'Encéphale" about Neurofeedback for Psychiatry (see Section Publications)
Romain Sabau joined us as a Master student intern to work on various feedback for motor imagery BCI and post-stroke rehabitliation. Welcome!
Marion Le Goff joined us as a Master student intern to work on EEG data analysis and learning metrics in neurofeedback (for project Neuroperf). Welcome!
12/2018
In Canada, for a collaboration with Edith Law at the University of Waterloo and for the PhD defence of the excellent work of Mark Parent, Univ. Laval, on mental workload and physiological computing
In Salon-de-Provence for the PhD defense of Bertille Somon who did great work about Error Monitoring and EEG
11/2018
A paper accepted at the IEEE International Winter Conference on BCI, on adaptive EEG classification based on Riemannian Geometry (see section publications)
Our internship offers for Master thesis with us in 2019 are available (sorry, only for French speakers this year)
10/2018
In Belgium - Leuven, at KU Leuven, where I was part of the PhD defense committee of Benjamin Wittevrongel. He did interesting work on spatio-temporal beamforming for reactive BCI. Congrats Benjamin!
An abstract (in French) accepted about our NF system to improve daytime alterness in collaboration with SANPSY (see section publications)
In Miyazaki, Japan, for IEEE SMC where we organized the 3rd International OpenViBE workshop, and where I also participated to a panel on building real-life BCIs.
09/2018
Satyam Kumar joined us for a 2-month visit, to work on adaptive Riemannian classification for BCI. Welcome Satyam!
Camille Benaroch started her PhD with us (co-supervised with Camille Jeunet) on computational models of mental-imagery BCI user training. She is the second PhD student to start working on my ERC Starting Grant project "Brain Conquest". Welcome Camille!
Thibaut Monseigne joined us as an engineer to work on OpenViBE and the ANR project REBEL. Welcome Thibaut!
In Paris at ISIR, for the PhD defense of Hajlaoui Ayoub - I was in his PhD evaluation committee - who did interesting work on EEG-based emotion recognition and hyperscanning.
Join us at IEEE SMC 2018 for our OpenViBE workshop and tutorial there!
08/2018
A paper accepted in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, about SEREEGA, a Matlab toolbox for generating simulated EEG signals, in collaboration with TU Berlin, in particular Laurens Krol, Thorsten Zander and Klaus Gramann. The code is also available (see section publications)
A paper accepted in the journal Neuroinformatics, about regularized spatial filters for EEG regression problems, in collaboration with Univ. Freiburg and in particular Andreas Meinel and Michael Tangermann. The code is also available (see section publications)
07/2018
Anais Grimal joined us for a summer internship about modeling feedback-learning in BCI, welcome!
Mehdi Bugallo, joined us as a visiting PhD student to work on operant conditioning in BCI/Neurofeedback, welcome!
A paper on EEG hyperscanning and emotions accepted at the Cyberworlds conference, in collaboration with Zhu Li and Andrzej Cichocki (see section publications)
A book chapter on BCI for neuroergonomics, written in collaboration with Raphaëlle Roy, was accepted in the Neuroergonomics book! (see also section publications)
06/2018
The presentations of our BCI meeting workshop on negative results for BCI are available!
At the "Inria scientific days" where I presented my work on BCI user training
We had our Potioc team retreat in Hourtin!
In WACAI in Porquerolles, where Léa Pillette presented our work on learning companions for BCI
I was "Grand Témoin" at the seminar on "Humans and Technologie" organised by the Institute for advanced studies of Univ. Bordeaux. Following that seminar I also gave a popularization talk on Brain-Computer Interfaces, whose video can be seen on youtube
05/2018
In Brussels, Belgium, for the NEM steering board meeting and general assembly. I got re-elected as Inria representative in the steering board.
In California, USA for the International BCI meeting, were we presented 4 papers, co-organized 2 workshops and joined the Brain Hackathon (see also section publications)
An abstract accepted at the 2nd International Neuroergonomics conference, in collaboration with Frédéric Dehais from ISAE Tolouse, about ERP classification with dry electrodes in a plane (see section publications)
I was a guest speaker at the "Neurocampus annual day meeting" in Bordeaux, presenting BCI research
Giving a popularization talk on BCI at the "Centre Culturel du Hâ" in Bordeaux
3 positions available to work with us on BCI: one PhD, one Post-doc and one engineer position!
In Lyon for the 3rd Neurofeedback day that we co-organized, and where I gave a lecture on feedback and performance assessment for neurofeedback.
04/2018
In Lyon to visit the EMC laboratory and give a talk on BCI user training there!
A paper accepted in Journal of Neural Engineering, about a definition and quantification (with appropriate metrics) of mental imagery-based BCI users' skills! The Matlab code is also available (see section Publications)
In Toulouse for the CORTICO (French BCI association) conference, where we presented 5 abstracts and one special session!
Thibaut Monseigne joigned us for his Master Thesis, on the Neuroperf Project dedicated to neurofeedback
03/2018
A book chapter accepted in the Book "Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Brain-Machine Interfaces", about Machine Learning methods that consider the human in the loop (see section Publications)
In Japan, in Wakoshi, RIKEN BSI, for the "Frontier of Multidisciplinary Research: Brain Signal Processing and Multiway Data Mining" workshop, where I was an invited speaker
A paper accepted in the Neuroscience journal, about a framework to study clinical neurofeedback based on recent BCI results (see section Publications)
In Israël, in Tel aviv, to give a talk in IDC for the Brain-Computer Interface Symposium.
4 abstracts accepted at the international BCI meeting, about motor task transfer, attention decoding in EEG, adaptive flashing for P300 speller and a Python based BCI platform! (see section Publications)
02/2018
2 new master students are joining us for their master thesis: Camille Benaroch and Aline Roc. Welcome!
A paper accepted in Journal of Neural Engineering, about an updated review of classification algorithms for EEG-based BCI!
A paper accepted in the WACAI workshop about learning companions for BCI! (see section Publications)
A paper accepted as a Late Breaking Work at ACM CHI, on modern machine learning methods for workload classification in EEG signals (see section Publications)
01/2018
Our Handbook of Brain Computer Interfaces has been published!
12/2017
Visiting and giving a talk at the RIKEN Cetner for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Tokyo, Japan
11/2017
For master students: we propose 3 internships around BCI and Neurofeedback for 2018. See more infos there: BCI Internships 2018
In Nara, Japan for the RTFIN'2017 Neurofeedback conference, where I gave a tutorial on EEG signal processing methods from BCI for Neurofeedback, and where I presented a poster on motor task for SMR-BCI/NF, from my work with Andrzej Cichocki at RIKEN BSI.
A paper accepted in Journal of Neural Engineering, about a review of Rapid Serial Visualization Paradigms (RSVP) for BCI!
10/2017
Visiting and giving a talk atTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Gentiane Venture's lab, Japan
Visiting and giving a talk at the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI), Tokyo University, Japan
Camille Jeunet, my former PhD student, received a 3rd PhD thesis award, this time the PhD thesis Award from the SMC Grant Initiative 2017 for the “Best PhD Thesis in Human-Machine Systems”, 2017. Congrats Camille, you rock!
Aurélien Appriou joined us for his PhD! He is the first PhD student on the ERC Starting Grant BrainConquest project! Welcome Aurélien!
09/2017
In Graz, for the International BCI conference, where I was honored to be the opening keynote speaker, and where we also presented 5 papers (on a model of MI-BCI task, a Learning companion for BCI, the impact of Flow on BCI performances, new metrics of performances and on robust spatial fitlers for regression)!
An abstract and a workshop accepted at RTFIN'2017!
I received two publons awards, for the top 1% most peer reviews in both engineering and neuroscience
07/2017
A letter to the Editor accepted in Brain, about double-blind and neurofeedback
Camille Jeunet received a second PhD award for the PhD she did with us: the PhD thesis award from the international PhD award committee from Bordeaux University in 2017. Awesome!
06/2017
In Bordeaux for the "Journées Jeunes Chercheurs en Interfaces Cerveau-Ordinateur et Neurofeedback (JJC-ICON)"
Camille Jeunet, my former PhD student, received the PhD thesis award from IFRATH/KAELIS in 2017. Congrats Camille!!!
05/2017
At CHI, giving a tutorial on BCI for HCI with my awesome colleagues, who also demonstrated our mascot Teegi!
04/2017
Back to Japan as a JSPS visiting fellow at RIKEN BSI!
A paper accepted at NAT'2017, about active inference for P300-BCI
A paper accepted in Frontiers, about joint EEG-fMRI neurofeedback of motor imagery tasks
03/2017
Visiting Frédéric Dehais and Raphaëlle Roy in the Neuroergonomics and Human Factors lab of ISAE, Toulouse
Presenting my ERC Starting Grant project "BrainConqest" for one of the Inria 50 years anniversary event: "50 years and almost 50 ERC". The video (in French) is here!
02/2017
Our demonstration about the new Teegi has been accepted at CHI 2017!
Visiting again the RIKEN BSI, Cichocki's Advanced Brain Signal Processing Laboratory, in Japan
01/2017
We are co-organising the kick-off meeting of the French association for BCI, named Cortico! It will be on January 24 in Paris!
We are co-organising the 2nd national neurofeedback meeting in Paris, on January 25!
In Nancy for the PhD defence of Cecilia Lindig-Leon, who proposed interesting contributions for 8-class motor imagery-BCI!
12/2016
Camille Jeunet successfully and brillantly defended her PhD, that she did with us, on human learning for BCI, congrats!! See the manuscript here.
In Paris for a BCI-LIFT plenary meeting!
In Tuebingen, Germany, to enjoy the visit of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent system, and the BCI group of Moritz Grosse-Wentrup there, where I also gave a talk.
In the Tulles High School in France, to talk about my research on BCI and my background.
11/2016
Our course on BCI was accepted at CHI 2017!
A paper accepted in the journal l'Encephale, about Neurofeedback, following the 1st national neurofeedback congress!
A paper accepted in the journal Brain-Computer Interfaces, about pitfalls of BCI research, following our workshop at the international BCI meeting!
Giving a popularization presentation about my work at the Science Agora in Tokyo, Japan
Enjoying the visit of Pr. Tanaka laboratory at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and giving a talk there!
10/2016
Léa Pillette started her PhD with us on Brain-Computer Interfaces!
Giving a popularization talk in Bordeaux on BCI, for the CogTalks
In Paris for the 1st International Conference on NeuroErgonomics where I presented our work
In Budapest, for the BMI Workshop at IEEE SMC 2016, where we organized and special session and where Camille Jeunet presented our work
Starting a 6 weeks scientific visit at RIKEN BSI, Cichocki's advanced brain signal processing laboratory, wakoshi, Japan!
09/2016
My project "BrainConquest" was selected for an ERC Starting Grant!!!! Hourra!
Giving a lecture and a lab on BCI at the IBRO/APRC School on Cognitive Neurosciences
I defended and obtained by Habilitation Thesis (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches - HDR)! You can read the manuscript here.
08/2016
I am very happy to join the Editorial Board of the Brain-Computer Interface journal, the flagship journal of the BCI society!
A paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, on Riemannian approaches for BCI! (see section Publications)
I joined the Editorial Board of the prestigious Journal of Neural Engineering! It is great to be part of this adventure!
Our Book "Brain-Computer Interfaces / Les Interfaces Cerveau-Ordinateur", that we edited with Maureen Clerc and Laurent Bougrain, and wrote with the French BCI community is now published, both in French and in English! (see section Publications)
07/2016
A paper accepted in the Journal "Travail Humain" on EEG-based Neuroergonomics for 3D User Interaction (see section Publications)
Giving a talk "When Brain-Computer Interaction meets Educational Sciences" at the general assembly of the LaBRI, Bordeaux France
Giving a talk "From Neurofeedback to BCI", at the Bordeaux Workshop on Neurofeedback
Giving a talk "Towards Usable Mental Imagery-based BCIs" at the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris, and visiting the great ARAMIS team and Fabrizio De Vico-Fallani there!
06/2016
Visiting the very impressive Technoculture Art and Games (TAG) research center from Concordia University in Montreal, and giving a talk there on our research at Potioc
Visiting and enjoying the SAT - "Société des Arts Technologiques" in Montréal, Canada
In Montreal, Canada, for the UQAM Summer School of Cognitive Sciences, to learn about Reasonning and learning!
Together with Camille Jeunet, we were interviewed on the radio program "L'oeuf ou la poule", on CHOQ, a Montréal Radio from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal).
Visiting the awesome Digital Art Biennal in Montreal, Canada
Visiting and meeting very interesting people at the Center for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada
I will be one of the speakers at the "Brain and Computers Digital Media Conference" in Vancouver, on June 16th, which promises to be an exciting event!
A radio interview on Radio Canada, in Vancouver, about BCI and virtual reality (posdcast here).
Talking about new applications of BCI technologies at the SCRIME workshop on "music and physiological signals"
A radio interview about BCI and the Brain and Computers Digital Media Conference on the Vancouver-based Round House Radio (podcast here)
I was nominated a leader in BCI research for the lunch with leader at the International BCI meeting 2016!
A paper accepted in the IEEE SMC 2016 conference on spatial abilities training for mental imagery based BCI (see section publications)!
In Pacific Grove, California, USA for the International BCI meeting 2016, where we presented several posters, a demo, and co-organized a workshop! A very enjoyable (and intense) conference.
05/2016
In Paris for meeting of the BCI-LIFT project!
We organized the 2nd international OpenViBE workshop as a satellite event of the International BCI meeting 2016, in California. It was great to meet so many cool OpenViBE users!
04/2016
A journal paper accepted in Journal of Neural Engineering on the study of standard training protocols for BCI (see section publications)
In Lyon to visit Jérémie Mattout and give a talk at Inserm, team Dycog, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Benjamin Muzart joined us for an internship on BCI!
03/2016
A journal article accepted in Progress in Brain Research on neurophysiological and cognitive predictors of BCI performances (see section publications)
In Geneva for the PhD defense of Sareh Saeedi who proposed interesting contributions for adaptive BCI design. Congrats!
In Bruxelles for the NEM (New European Media) General Assembly, where Inria was elected as Steering Board member with me as its representative.
An abstract accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2016, on Hybrid EEG-fMRI neurofeedback for motor imagery! (see section publications)
Léa Pillette joined us to do her Master thesis on BCI!
02/2016
In Paris to give a tutorial on "Brain signal processing and mental state classification" during the IFRATH scientific meeting on "Brain-Computer Interfaces"
2 abstracts accepted for the international BCI meeting (see section publications)
Suzy Teillet joined us to do her Master thesis on BCI with us!
01/2016
Jelena Mladenovic Joined us to do her PhD on BCI with Jérémie Mattout (Inserm Lyon) and I!
Together with R. Chavarriaga, S. Kleih, R. Scherer, and J.d.R. Millan, we are co-organizing a workshop at the International BCI meeting on "What’s wrong with us? Roadblocks and pitfalls in designing BCI applications"! If you want to participate you are most welcome!
Giving a talk in Paris on "Reciprocal learning between machines and humans for neurofeedback and BCI" at the first National Neurofeedback day.
In Brighton, UK to visit the Interact lab of Pr. Sriram Subramanian, as well as other very nice labs there!
12/2015
A paper accepted at CHI about EEG-based Neuroergonomics or how to use EEG to assess the ergonomics quality of a human-computer interface! (see section publications)
My First PhD student, Jérémy Frey, has brilliantly and successfully defended his PhD, he is now a Doctor! Congratulations!
an abstract accepted at the Motor Speech Conference on ECoG based speech production analysis (see section publications)
11/2015
A paper accepted in the journal PLOS One on predictors of mental-imagery based BCI performances (see also section publications)!
In Paris for a national meeting on invasive BCI.
In Lyon for a scientific outreach presentation "“Peut-on tout contrôler par la pensée”, with Jérémie Mattout and Emmanuel Maby
10/2015
In Hong-Kong for the IEEE SMC conference and associate BMI workshop. We organized there a special session on user training for BCI (see also section publications)
Giving a talk and visiting Pr. Li's Center for Brain Computer Interface and Brain Information Processing, in Guangzhou
In Toulouse, at ISAE, for the PhD defense committee of Gautier Durantin and his very nice work on EEG/fNIRS-based neuroergomics for pilots!
A paper accepted about TOBE: a Tangible Out of Body Experience, at TEI 2016!
09/2015
In Nice for EUSIPCO 2015, for the special session we organized on robust EEG signal processing for BCI (see also section publications)
In Bamberg, Germany, for INTERACT 2015, where we present 3 papers related to BCI! (see section publications)
08/2015
A journal paper accepted in Computational Intelligence and Neurosciences, about EEG-based estimation of visual comfort! (see also section publications)
07/2015
Visiting the Sugiyama laboratory in Tokyo University, Japan, for a month!
Giving a talk and visiting Cinet, Osaka, Japan
Giving a talk and visiting Pr. Cichocki laboratory for advanced brain signals processing in Wako Saitama, Japan
My BCI project proposal REBEL was accepted and funded by ANR!
06/2015
A paper accepted at IEEE SMC on explanatory feedback for BCI training! (see section publications)
In Grenoble for the PhD defense committee of Raphaëlle Roy, who did very interesting work on EEG-based neuroergonomics (workload, attention, fatigue)
05/2015
A short paper on the estimation in EEG signals of visual comfort for stereoscopic displays, accepted at INTERACT 2015, (see section publications)
A paper accepted at EUSIPCO 2015 on robust spatial filtering for EEG-based BCI! (see section publications)
In Toulouse for the half-PhD committee of Tracy Brandmeyer who his doing promising work on EEG, neurofeedback and meditation!
04/2015
The Inria Project Lab BCI-LIFT is officially accepted and created!
03/2015
2 long papers accepted at INTERACT 2015, on tactile feedback for BCI training, and mental workload estimation based on EEG during 3D manipulation tasks (see section publications)
02/2015
A journal paper accepted in Frontiers in Human Neurosciences about decoding articulatory features from ECoG signals! (see section publications)
A journal paper accepted in Proceedings of the IEEE on EEG signal processing approaches to reduce or suppress BCI calibration time (see section publications)
01/2015
Visiting Michael Tangermann Brain State Decoding Lab in Freiburg!
In Korea for the International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interfaces where I gave an invited talk on human learning principles for BCI
12/2014
In Berlin for giving a talk at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neurosciences and for the Master Thesis defense of Julia Schumacher!
A paper accepted at ACIIDS 2015 (see section publications)
10/2014
In Lille for the IHM 2014 conference where we also organized a workshop on interaction, cognition and 3D!
In the PhD committee of Jonathan Grizou, who made very interesting contributions on Learning from Unlabeled Interaction Frames, which includes calibration free BCI-based robot control!
09/2014
In Graz for the International BCI conference and for first International OpenViBE workshop we organized there as a satellite event
In Brussels for the NEM summit 2014 to present our team Potioc's work!
In Liege, Belgium, for the PhD defence of Damien Lesenfants who did very interesting work with BCI for disorders of consciousness
07/2014
A paper accepted at UIST 2014 about Teegi (Tangible EEG Interface), a new interact system to visualize your own brain activity (see section publications)
In Bristol University to visit and collaborate with Sriram Subramanian's HCI group
In Germany for the First passive BCI community meeting and to visit Stefan Debener lab in Oldenburg
06/2014
A paper and a poster accepted at the International Graz BCI conference (see section publications)
In Berlin for the PhD defence of Wojciech Samek who made very nice contributions on robust spatial filter design for EEG-based BCI
05/2014
Visiting Pr. Roger N'Kambou and the cognitive science department in UQAM, Montreal Canada
In Beligum, in Mons, for the PhD defence of Matthieu Duvinage, who made many interesting contributions to EEG-based neuroprosthesis design
In Florence for ICASSP, where I gave a tutorial on EEG signal processing and presented a paper
04/2014
Julia Schumacher joined us to do her Master Thesis!
03/2014
A paper accepted in the Frontiers in Neurosciences journal, about workload estimation from EEG signals (see section publications)
02/2014
Dennis Wobrock joined us to do his Master Thesis with us and the Immersion company.
I was in Berlin for the Winterschool on Neurotechnologies. Check out the different lectures from the school there: http://videolectures.net/bbci2014_berlin/.
A paper accepted at the International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014) about the optimization of spatial filters for phase synchronization-based classification of EEG signals (see section publications)
A paper accepted at the "Work-in-Progress" section of the CHI 2014 conference on the use of EEG to assess the zone of comfort in stereoscopic displays (see section publications)
01/2014
A paper accepted at the IEEE Virtual Reality (IEEE VR 2014) conference on a new Augmented Reality-based visualization system for real-time EEG: the Mind-Mirror! (see section publications)
We were at the Physiological Computing System (PhyCS 2014) conference to present our work on BCI (see section publications) and to show a demo of our OpenViBE open-source BCI software
12/2013
A paper accepted in the Brain-Computer Interface journal, about the workshops organized during the International BCI Meeting 2013 (see section publications)
11/2013
We succesfully organized the IHM 2013 French speaking conference on Human Computer Interaction in Bordeaux!
10/2013
Together with Prof. Amit Konar and Arijit Sinharay, we will give a tutorial on EEG Signal processing and classification for BCI at the ICASSP 2014 conference.
2 papers accepted at the Physiological Computing system conference (PhyCS 2014), about EEG-based HCI evaluation and stress induction and measurement (see section publications)
09/2013
A popularization article in Interstices explaining that BCI cannot read minds (in French)
A PhD position is opened to work with us at Inria Bordeaux in France and Damien Coyle at Ulster University, Northern Ireland (see section job offers)
A poster accepted at IHM 2013, about a protocol for stress induction and measurement (see section publications)
08/2013
A paper accepted in the Frontiers in Human Neurosciences journal about human training approaches (and their flaws!) for spontaneous BCI (see section publications)
07/2013
The special issue of IEEE T-CIAIG on "Brain/Neuronal Computer Games Interfaces and Interaction" that we edited is out!
06/2013
I was in Zaragoza, in Spain, for the PhD defence of Javier Mauricio Antelis, who worked on Motor information decoding from EEG signals. Congratulations!
I was in at EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the PhD defence of Mohit Kumar Goel, who worked on Inverse solutions for BCI. Congratulations!
A paper accepted at eCAADe, with architect Pierre Cutellic, on our first experimentations with Neurodesign (see section publications)
In California for the International BCI Meeting 2013, an Amazing venue for BCI researchers. We also organized a workshop there, and presented a poster (see section publications)
Camille Jeunet and Leonard Pommereau defended they Master thesis with success, both of them finishing top of their class! Congratulations!
05/2013
I gave a popularization talk on BCI in la cité des sciences, in Paris, in the context of a conference on "Thinking without body"
Together with François Nicaise (a BCI-based video game developper), we gave a demonstration and a popularization talk on BCI at Cap sciences, in Bordeaux, entitled "Le cerveau aux commandes".
Nicoletta Caramia, A PhD student for the university of Pavia, in Italy, joined us for a scientific visit, to work on EEG signal processing
04/2013
Leonard Pommereau joined us to do his Master Thesis (1st year) on the analysis of stereoscopic display with EEG signals.
We enjoyed the CHI conference in Paris!
I was in Grenoble, in CEA, for the mid-thesis defence of Raphaelle Roy, who works on Cognitive State estimation from EEG signals.
03/2013
A paper accepted at the 5th international BCI meeting (see section publication)
02/2013
Camille Jeunet joined us to do her Master Thesis (2nd year) on real-time estimation of stress from EEG signals.
Together with Reinhold Scherer (TU Graz) and Anatole Lécuyer (Inria Rennes), we are organizing a workshop on feedback and human training protocols for BCI at the international BCI meeting 2013. Hope you will join us to discuss this exciting but under-explored topic!
There is an open associate professor position at the university of Bordeaux, to teach in the computer science department and do research with us in the Potioc team!
01/2013
Christian Mühl joined us as a Post-doc to work on real-time estimation of stress and relaxation from EEG and physiological signals.
Together with g.tec, we are organizing a FREE workshop on BCI at Inria Bordeaux, on March 8th, with practical hand-ons, scientific lectures and tutorials! More info here.
I gave a popularization talk about BCI at the conference “Neurotechnologies: towards augmented humans?“, in Bordeaux
12/2012
A paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games (IEEE T-CIAIG) about multiplayer BCI-based gaming (see section publications)
Kick-off meeting of the OpenViBE-NT project which aims at building the next generation OpenViBE platform!
11/2012
Attended the ICPR 2012 conference in Tuskuba, Japan
Alison Cellard joined us as an Engineer to work on OpenViBE BCI platform
I was in Malaga University, Spain, for the PhD defence of Francisco Velasco Alvarez, who made interesting contributions in BCI-based navigation in real and virtual worlds.
10/2012
Jeremy Frey joined our group to do a PhD with me on passive BCI for the evaluation of 3D User Interfaces.
09/2012
A paper accepted at VRST 2012, on using BCI as a tool to study spatial knowledge transfer between virtual reality and the real world (see section publications)
Together with the architect Pierre Cutellic, we organized a workshop to explore Neurodesign at the AAG 2012 conference
Nearly 2 weeks of BCI presentations, lectures and events in Berlin at the BBCI workshop and BBCI Neurotechnology Summer School.
08/2012
The book "Towards Practical Brain-Computer Interfaces" is now available: a worthy read for anyone interested in BCI! We are also happy to discuss about BCI and Virtual Reality in one of its chapters (see section publications)
A poster accepted at the BBCI workshop (see section publications)
06/2012
3 open engineer positions to work with us at Inria on BCI and the OpenViBE platform! (see also section Job offers).
The deadline for the BCI grand challenge at ICMI 2012 has been extended to June 30th. Don't hesitate to submit your work or ideas there!
A paper accepted at ICPR 2012, about an alternative feature and associated optimal spatial filter for EEG classification (see section publications)
04/2012
The submission deadline for the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (IEEE T-CIAIG), about "Brain/Neuronal-Computer Games Interfaces and Interaction", has been extended to April 30th! Probably a good opportunity to submit your work in this domain.
03/2012
A paper accepted in IEEE Computer magazine about non-medical applications of BCI (See section publications).
02/2012
An open post-doc position to work with us on BCI and physiological computing at Inria (see also Section Job offers)
A paper accepted at the CHI workshop "The 3rd Dimension of CHI (3DCHI)", about digitally assisted stereo drawing (not related to BCI, but interesting HCI anyway!). See section publications.
01/2012
A paper accepted in the french-speaking journal Technique et Science Informatiques, in the special issue dedicated to the ASTI PhD awards. See section publications.
We are now Inria team Potioc!
12/2011
We are editing a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (IEEE T-CIAIG), about "Brain/Neuronal-Computer Games Interfaces and Interaction". See the call for papers!
11/2011
The Neurocomp (french-speaking) automn school on BCI in Nancy was a success, thanks to all the participants, organizers and speakers!
10/2011
Congratulations to Dr. Boris Reuderink for his freshly obtained PhD (whose PhD committee I had the chance to be part of) and innovative contributions!
A paper accepted in the journal Neurocomputing, about new features (predictive complexity, multifractal cumulants) for motor imagery-based BCI. See section publications.
09/2011
I was at the first PhD defense of Dieter Devlaminck, from Ghent University, who made interesting machine learning contributions to BCI research (see, e.g., here, but there are more papers to come!).
I attended the international BCI conference in Graz. As usual, it was a great conference!
07/2011
We are organizing a French-speaking autumn school about BCI, for Neurocomp 2011. It will be in Nancy, from November 14 to November 18, 2011. More details here (in French). Don't forget to mark your calendars!
06/2011
A paper accepted at the 5th International BCI workshop, about calibration time reduction for BCI based on artificial EEG data generation. See section publications.
A paper accepted at the 33rd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'11), about object control with concentration and relaxation tasks based on electrical biosignals. See section publications.
04/2011
I gave an introduction to BCI during a popular science conference at la cité des sciences, in Paris. The conference theme was "Can machine mimic the human brain?" (in French).
A paper accepted at the Foundations of Digital Games conference (FDG 2011). See section publications.
01/2011
I am now a Research Scientist (with tenure) at INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, in the Iparla team, in France
A paper accepted in SSCI 2011 CCMB - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, about band power feature extraction and motor-imagery based BCI (see section publications)
12/2010
Together with my colleagues Dr. Kai Keng Ang and Dr. Cuntai Guan, we gave a tutorial on BCI at the APSIPA ASC conference. Slides available upon request.
10/2010
I am a Program Commitee member for the International Symposium on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging, which will be held in Seoul, Korea in May 2011. We are looking forward to receiving your BCI submissions!
09/2010
A paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, about regularization and Common Spatial Patterns (see section publications)
I attended the future BNCI conference, a workshop dedicated to starting the creation of a roadmap for BCI and a stronger BCI community. Interested BCI researchers are welcome to contribute to this endeavour, which is still ongoing (more info there)
I am a Program Commitee member of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, which will be held in Paris, France in April 2011. BCI papers are most welcomed (see the call for paper).
30/08/2010
I attended the ICPR conference last week, where I notably participated in the very interesting Brain Decoding Workshop. You can check the poster I presented at the conference and the corresponding paper, dealing with spatial regularization for the CSP algorithm.
11/06/2010
Back from the 4th International BCI meeting, a truly exciting and interesting meeting!! See, for instance, the amazing posters there.
My own presentations are available on this page.
08/04/2010
A paper accepted at the ICPR conference, on Spatially Regularized CSP for BCI (see section Publications)
28/03/2010
An abstract accepted at the fourth international BCI meeting (see section Publications)
12/03/2010
I am now a Review Editor for the journal Frontiers in Neuroprosthethics, a first-tier electronic open access journal dedicated to BCI research
12/02/2010
BCI job offer section updated (see section BCI Job Offers)
11/01/2010
Two papers accepted in Presence about the OpenViBE plaform and BCI-based interaction in virtual reality (see section publications)
12/12/2009
A paper accepted at the ICASSP'2010 conference, about subject-to-subject transfer and calibration time reduction for motor imagery based BCI (see section publications)
11/12/2009
I received the PhD thesis award accessit (2nd prize) from the ASTI (french Association for Information Technologies and Sciences), in the "Fundamental and transversal research" category. Follow this link for details: ASTI PhD thesis award 2009 (website in French)
19/11/2009
I received the PhD thesis award 2009 from the AFRIF, the French branch of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
Follow this link for details: AFRIF PhD thesis award 2009 (website in French)
08/11/2009
A paper (extended abstract) accepted at the NIPS 2009 symposium "Assistive Machine Learning for People with Disabilities", about P300-based BCI (see section publications)
03/11/2009
The slides of my Seminar "An Introduction to (bio)Statistics" are available for download (See section Teaching)
02/06/2009
A paper accepted at the EMBC'2009 conference, about subject-independant BCI (see section publications)
14/01/2009
I have just joined the Brain-Computer Interface laboratory of the Institute for Infocomm Research, in Singapore, where I am now a Research Fellow.