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IEEE SMC 2017 BMI Workshop

SMC 2017
WORKSHOP ON BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS
OCTOBER 5-8, 2017

2017 Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems

BMI WORKSHOP PROGRAM
COMMITTEE
Michael H. Smith, Chair, UC Berkeley,
USA
Ljiljana Trajković, Technical Program
Chair, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Ricardo Chavarriaga, Technical Program
Co-Chair, Tutorial Chair, and Webmaster,
EPFL, Switzerland

The IEEE SMC 2017 7th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems (BMI) will be held on October
5-8, 2017 at the Banff Center, Banff, Canada as part of the program of SMC 2017 - the flagship annual
conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. The goal of the workshop is to provide a
forum for researchers to present research results, facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between
all researchers, developers and consumers of BMI technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest
advances, innovations and applications in the field of BMI.
The workshop is organized by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Brain-Machine Interfaces Systems and
is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Brain Initiative, IEEE Consumer Electronic Society, IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Magnetics Society, and the IEEE Systems Council. Participation is
free to all registered SMC 2017 attendees. The theme of this year's workshop is:

From Lab to Life: BMI Systems in the Coming Decade

Vinod Prasad, Technical Program CoChair, NTU, Singapore
Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Special Sessions
Chair, University of Houston, USA
Jose M. Azorin, Special Sessions CoChair, Miguel Hernández University of
Elche, Spain
Reinhold Scherer, Special Sessions CoChair, Graz University of Technology,
Austria
Stuart Mason Dambrot, Publicity Chair and
Secretary, BMI Consortium, USA
Tim Mullen, Brain Hackathon Chair, Qusp,
USA
Tiago H. Falk, Brain Hackathon Co-Chair,
INRS-EMT, Canada
Christoph Guger, Brain Hackathon CoChair, g.tec, Switzerland
Margaret Thompson, Brain Hackathon
Student Competition Chair
INVITED SPEAKERS
Paul Sajda, Chair, IEEE Brain Initiative

In the future, the range and sophistication of BMI Systems will achieve what seems impossible today:
Intelligent neuromimetic prosthetics that function as a seamless extension of the brain; biocompatible
nanotechnology that reside within the brain to read and write neural states without requiring a power
supply; sensorimotor and cognitive BMI Systems that restore lost or compromised vision, hearing,
memory, and mobility; and artificially intelligent cloud-based systems that seamlessly augment our
cognitive capabilities. In the coming decade, we will see progress being made towards these goals.
The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present research results, facilitate the
interaction and intellectual exchange between researchers, developers, and consumers of BMI
technology. Contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of BMI
will be presented. Also of interest will be the report and evaluation of complete systems considering
aspects such as multidimensional performance metrics reflecting decoding accuracy, task performance,
human factors, decoding algorithms, and feedback. These and other topics represent both challenges to the
field and a tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multidisciplinary research, involving not only peers
with expertise in the field of BMI, but also those with expertise in systems engineering, human-machine
systems, cybernetics, and/or other disciplines. The four-day workshop will feature tutorials, panels, a brain
hackathon, a number of prominent invited speakers from industry and academia, and presentations of
contributed papers.

Christoph Guger, Co-founder, g.tec

Brain Computer Interface Hackathon

PANELS

Hackathons are two-day brainstorming and collaborative marathons that create an environment
supporting the rapid production of working prototypes. Anyone-SMC2017 attendees and nonSMC2017 attendees alike-who is interested in BCI/BMI and related technologies can register at
the 2017 IEEE SMC Brain Hackathon website to compete for cash prizes. (High school students and
undergraduates can participate through the student competition.)

Important Topics in Designing and Building
Real World BMI Systems: What is New?
How Research and Methodologies in
Systems, Human-Machine Systems, and
Cybernetics can be applied to BMI
What Have We Learned, Where Do We Go
From Here?
TUTORIALS
BMI Systems - State of the Art
New Applications in BMI Systems
BRAIN HACKATHON
CONTACTS

Important Dates
August 5, 2017 Deadline for early registration
October 5-8, 2017 Conference dates
October 7-8, 2017 Brain Hackathon
Note: Accepted papers that are not physically presented at SMC 2017 will be excluded from the IEEE
proceedings.

Regular Session Papers:
Ljiljana Trajković
ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
Special Session Papers:
Jose L. Contreras-Vidal
jlcontr2@central.uh.edu
http://go.epfl.ch/smc2017_bmi
http://www.smc2017.org

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