UNIQUE Student Symposium 2026

Posters competition - USS 2026

The awards were presented during the closing session on May 13. They were made possible thanks to the support of the Millénium Québecor program, CerebrUM, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, and the UNIQUE Québec Neuro-AI Research Center.

Evaluation Criteria

• Scientific content (title, introduction, objective, hypothesis, methods, analyses and results, discussion) /30 points

• Technical aspects (text presentation, structure and organization) /10 points

• Presentation quality (clarity, flow, audience engagement, responses to questions, time management) /20 points

Awards

Millénium Québecor Awards

• Evaluating and Benchmarking Machine Learning Methods for EEG-Based Classification in Childhood Epilepsy - Syrine Matoussi, Université de Montréal

• Critical Dynamics in Spontaneous EEG Predict Perturbational Complexity in Disorders of Consciousness - Derek Newman, McGill University

• Psychotic Symptom Severity Modulates Visual Semantic Representations - Arina Ujevco, Université de Montréal
  
  

UNIQUE - CerebrUM Awards

• CanViT: Toward Active-Vision Foundation Models - Yohaï-Eliel Berreby, McGill University

• Fundamental Limit of Network Inference by Exact Structure-Function Mapping in Neural Oscillators - Arthur Légaré, Université Laval

• Shared Representational Space in Vision and Mental Imagery - Laurence Lessard, Université de Montréal