SUMMER SCHOOL – – Postponed
Next Generation Wireless Brain Machine Interface
WHAT TO EXPECT?
The summer school aims to provide an overview of the latest trends in wireless technology for brain-machine interfaces, covering topics such as wireless power transmission, signal processing and communication protocols, intra-body communication, robotics, electronic-skin (E-skin), medical standards and brain computer interface. Participants will gain knowledge and experience in design approaches for implementing wireless brain-machine interfaces, and will have the opportunity to interact with leading experts in the field, network and share their work through a poster session.
The lectures will be given by experts from B-CRATOS partners and invited guest speakers. We will welcome renowned Guest speakers professors John Donoghue and Paul Meaney and have a special focus on ethics with the Head of the B-CRATOS Ethics Board Nicola Di Stefano.
POSTER PRESENTATION GUIDELINES:
On the first day at the Summer School there will be a dedicated poster session where participants will present their research. There will also be opportunities to present during breaks on Days 2 and 3. On the final day, a prize will be awarded to the best poster as selected by the Summer School committee!
REGISTRATION:
The summer school is postponed to 2024.
MEET THE TEAM
Invited lecturers:
Prof. John Donoghue
Prof. John Donoghue is the H.M. Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering at Brown University. He is known for translational research in human brain computer interfaces to restore movement for people with paralysis (known as ‘BrainGate’, as well as for fundamental research to explain how networks of cortical neurons compute actions from plans. At Brown, he was the founding Chair of the Brown Department of Neuroscience, the founding director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science (now the Carney Institute) and the Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence in Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology.
Dr Paul Meaney
Dr Paul Meaney has extensive industrial experience from working with millimeter-wave technology at both Millitech Corporation, USA, and Alpha Industries, MA. He has been a Professor with Dartmouth College since 1997, with Chalmers University of Technology and is also the President and Co-Founder of Microwave Imaging System Technologies, Inc., Hanover. His current research interests include microwave tomography, which exploits the many facets of dielectric properties in tissue and other media, and in particular, for breast cancer imaging, where his group was the first to translate an actual system into the clinic.
Lecturers:
- Ilangko Balasingham (Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
- Robin Augustine (B-CRATOS coordinator, Professor, Uppsala University)
- Ali Khaleghi (B-CRATOS WP leader, Research Professor Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
- Hansjörg Scherberger (B-CRATOS WP leader, Professor, DPZ)
- Nicola Di Stefano, Chair of the B-CRATOS Ethics board)
- Paul Wanda (B-CRATOS WP leader, Blackrock Microsystem Europe GmbH)
- Marco Controzzi (B-CRATOS WP leader, Scuola Superiore Sant’anna)
- Zhibin Zhang (Associate professor, Uppsala University)
- Mauricio Perez (Senior Researcher, Uppsala University)
- Paolo Viviani (Senior Researcher, LINKS Fundation)
- Letizia Bergamasco (Researcher, LINKS Fundation)
- Robinson Guachi (Researcher, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
What is B-CRATOS?
B-CRATOS is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program that aims to create a revolutionary untethered brain-machine interface by merging wireless communication, neuroscience, bionics, artificial intelligence, and sensing technologies. The project brings together 25 specialists in neuroscience, electronics, biomedical engineering, and AI from one SME, three research institutes, and three universities. The goal is to create a proof-of-concept battery-free high-speed wireless in-body communication platform for Brain-Machine-Body connectivity.
B-CRATOS will codesign technological components such as wireless two-way microwave fat intra-body and RF backscatter communication, battery-free powering technology, bio-inspired sensing, and dexterous biomechatronic extremity.
The project will overcome technological barriers of wireless brain-machine-body communication, and represents the beginning of a paradigm shift in how signals can be sent to restore function and empower individuals. The technology developed by B-CRATOS will have profound effects in several fields such as neuroprosthetics, electroceuticals, brain-computer interfaces, and virtual reality transmission. The wireless brain-machine interfaces developed in this project will enable real-time monitoring and control of a robotic arm and somatosensory stimulation for real time sensation.
ORGANIZATION
The B-CRATOS summer school is organized by the expert teams from
- UPPSALA UNIVERSITY,
- SINANO INSTITUTE,
- SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT’ANNA,
- BLACKROCK MICROSYSTEMS EUROPE GMBH,
- LINKS FOUNDATION,
- DEUTSCHES PRIMATENZENTRUM GMBH,
- NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NTNU) .
It will offer a unique opportunity to learn from experts in various fields and explore the latest advancements in BMI technology.
SPONSOR
The event is sponsored by the company COMSOL which develops mathematical modeling software that drives new breakthroughs in physics and engineering.
To learn more: www.comsol.com
