We’re currently in Banff, Canada, attending the BCI Meeting 2025, where we organized one of the first workshops combining BCI and general anesthesia monitoring, titled « Exploring the Clinical Integration of BCI Technology in General Anesthesia Monitoring ».

The atmosphere here is incredibly productive, and we feel lucky to be working surrounded by such stunning landscapes. It’s been a real pleasure engaging with workshop participants and sharing our latest results.

All the details are available here: https://github.com/valeriemarissens/BCI2025-WorkshopAnesthesiaBCI

As part of the NEARBY project and a collaboration between DFKI and Inria, we organized a workshop in Graz entitled « Variabilities in Brain-Computer Interactions ». It brought together many participants and sparked rich interactions — a promising step forward in this exciting partnership with our German colleagues!

I was invited to a seminar at TUAT University in Tokyo, in Professor Tanaka’s team, where I gave a talk on a new type of BCI based on median nerve stimulation. Thank to the Professor Tanaka and his amazing team for the invitation !

Here is the link of the video: LINK

I was in Seoul to present our latest results on the use of median nerve stimulation to predict MI-BCI performance! Lots of feedback and great meetings there! South Korea is wonderful! Thank you to the organizers of this great conference! If you are interested, here is the link for this article : https://inria.hal.science/hal-04981146

As part of a project looking at the variability of BCIs, we visited the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz in Bremen! It was a very stimulating visit, and the equipment at DFKI is truly impressive (see photo of an exoskeletal prosthesis used to improve movement).

Ready for more work between Inria and DFKI!

At the end of February, I was at the Winter BCI Conference in South Korea to present our new results: Prediction of Motor-Imagery-BCI performance using Median Nerve Stimulation. We showed that it is possible to use median nerve stimulation to predict MI-BCI performance. A huge turnout at this conference! Lots of questions from the audience, a superbly well organised conference, some great encounters and the discovery of a beautiful country.

I hope to be back soon!

The Potioc team (Marc Welter, Maria Sayu Yamamoto and Fabien Lotte) attended to the RIKEN workshop at Nicolaus Copernicus University, which focused on Complex Systems Science, Health Neuroscience and Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning.Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning. 

 

I presented my work on the use of median nerve stimulation to improve the performance of motor BCIs. Some great discussions and collaborations in the pipeline…

 

Torun is a magnificent city, and Poland a beautiful country.

 

PS: Thank you, Marc, for agreeing to lose your soul by publishing this photo.

Finally, the post-doc series has been completed! I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been recruited as an ISFP researcher at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, as part of the Potioc team!

J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution d’un article de vulgarisation sur le site/journal The Conversation. L’article aborde mes travaux de thèse et la possibilité de détecter le réveil peropératoire au cours de l’anesthésie générale grâce à une interface cerveau-ordinateur. L’article est par ICI !

En Juillet j’étais à Glasgow à la conférence EMBC 2022, j’y ai présenté le travail que nous avions soumis avec F. Lotte : « ERD modulations during motor imageries relate to users’ traits and BCI performances » (article disponible ICI). Si cela vous intéresse, la vidéo du talk est également disponible sur ma chaîne youtube, merci Maria! (LIEN VIDEO).