The Winners of 2024

Congratulations to the winners of the BCI Award 2024! At this year's BCI Award ceremony, around 300 attendees listened to the presentations of the 12 nominees, from which 3 projects were selected as the final winners.

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1st PLACE WINNER

Giacomo Valle1, Ali H. Alamri2, John E. Downey1, Robin Lienkämper3, Patrick M. Jordan1, Lee E. Miller7,8,9,10, Robert A. Gaunt3,4,5, Charles M. Greenspon1,+, Sliman J. Bensmaia1,2

Synthetic touch for brain-controlled bionic hands: tactile edges and motion via
patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex

Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
3 Rehab Neural Engineering Labs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
5 Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
6 Neuroscience Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
7 Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
8 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
10 Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago, IL.

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2nd PLACE WINNER

Thibault Collin1,2,3, Icare Sakr1,2,3, Valeria Spagnolo1,2,3, Nadine Intering1,2,3, Julie Hervé1,2,3, Sergio Charpak1,2,3, Gaia Carparelli1,2,3, Ina Bianca Yu1,2,3, Alice Bruel1,2,3, Grégory Dumont1,2,3, Pierre Bessot4, Charlotte Jacquet4, Anne Watrin4, Léa Bole-Feysot1,2,3, Charles-David Sasportes1,2,3, Malo Simondin1,2,3, Felix Martel5, Serpil Karakas5, Pedro Abranches1,2,3, Nicolas Hankov1,2,3, Philippe Forero1,2,3, Andrea Galvez1,2,3, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux6, Carole Poulin1,2,3, Camille Haxaire1,2,3, Fabio Becce6, Stefano Carda3, Matthieu Bosquet5, Marina D'Ercole4, Julien Dedelley4, Erika Ross4, Léonie Asboth1,2,3, Robin Demesmeaker1,2,3, Fabien Sauter5, Olivier Faivre5, Tetiana Aksenova5, Guillaume Charvet5, Jocelyne Bloch1,2,3, Grégoire Courtine1,2,3, Henri Lorach1,2,3

A brain to spinal cord digital bridge to restore voluntary arm and hand movements after a spinal cord injury

Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies (.NeuroRestore), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), of clinical neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2 NeuroX Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, CHUV and UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland
4 ONWARD Medical, Lausanne, Switzerland
5 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, Clinatec, Grenoble, France
6 Department of Radiology, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

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3rd PLACE WINNER

Vishal Choudhari1,2, Cong Han1,2, Stephan Bickel3,4, Ashesh D. Mehta3,4, Catherine Schevon5, Guy M. McKhann5, Nima Mesgarani1,2

Brain-controlled augmented hearing for spatially moving conversations in multi-talker environments

Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
Mor:mer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Ins:tute, New York City, New York, USA
Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Uniondale, New York, USA
The Feinstein Ins:tutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA

#Nominees "Nominees"

The Nominees for 2024


This year, around 80 top-level research projects were submitted from 30 countries for the BCI Award 2024. Fabien Lotte, chair of the jury and 5 reviewers carefully selected 12 nominated projects: 


 

Giacomo Valle1, Ali H. Alamri2, John E. Downey1, Robin Lienkämper3, Patrick M. Jordan1, Lee E. Miller7,8,9,10, Robert A. Gaunt3,4,5, Charles M. Greenspon1,+, Sliman J. Bensmaia1,2

Synthetic touch for brain-controlled bionic hands: tactile edges and motion via
patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex

Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
3 Rehab Neural Engineering Labs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
5 Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
6 Neuroscience Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
7 Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
8 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
10 Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago, IL.


Thibault Collin1,2,3, Icare Sakr1,2,3, Valeria Spagnolo1,2,3, Nadine Intering1,2,3, Julie Hervé1,2,3, Sergio Charpak1,2,3, Gaia Carparelli1,2,3, Ina Bianca Yu1,2,3, Alice Bruel1,2,3, Grégory Dumont1,2,3, Pierre Bessot4, Charlotte Jacquet4, Anne Watrin4, Léa Bole-Feysot1,2,3, Charles-David Sasportes1,2,3, Malo Simondin1,2,3, Felix Martel5, Serpil Karakas5, Pedro Abranches1,2,3, Nicolas Hankov1,2,3, Philippe Forero1,2,3, Andrea Galvez1,2,3, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux6, Carole Poulin1,2,3, Camille Haxaire1,2,3, Fabio Becce6, Stefano Carda3, Matthieu Bosquet5, Marina D'Ercole4, Julien Dedelley4, Erika Ross4, Léonie Asboth1,2,3, Robin Demesmeaker1,2,3, Fabien Sauter5, Olivier Faivre5, Tetiana Aksenova5, Guillaume Charvet5, Jocelyne Bloch1,2,3, Grégoire Courtine1,2,3, Henri Lorach1,2,3

A brain to spinal cord digital bridge to restore voluntary arm and hand movements after a spinal cord injury

Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies (.NeuroRestore), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), of clinical neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2 NeuroX Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, CHUV and UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland
4 ONWARD Medical, Lausanne, Switzerland
5 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, Clinatec, Grenoble, France
6 Department of Radiology, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland


Cheol Jun Cho1,2,3,*, Kaylo T. Littlejohn1,2,3,*, Jessie R. Liu2,3, Alexander B. Silva2,3,4, Bohan Yu1, Vanessa R. Anderson2, Cady M. Kurtz-Miott2, Samantha Brosler2,3,4, Anshul P. Kashyap1, Irina P. Hallinan2, Adit Shah1, Adelyn Tu-Chan6, Karunesh Ganguly3,6, David A. Moses2,3, Edward F. Chang+,2,3,4, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli,1,2,3

A streaming silent-speech neuroprosthesis for restoring naturalistic communication

1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, USA.,
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of
California, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA, USA.,
Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA, USA.,
University of California, Berkeley - University of California, San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering. Berkeley, CA, USA.,
Department of Rehabilitation Services, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA, USA.


 

Vishal Choudhari1,2, Cong Han1,2, Stephan Bickel3,4, Ashesh D. Mehta3,4, Catherine Schevon5, Guy M. McKhann5, Nima Mesgarani1,2

Brain-controlled augmented hearing for spatially moving conversations in multi-talker environments

Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
Mor:mer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Ins:tute, New York City, New York, USA
Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Uniondale, New York, USA
The Feinstein Ins:tutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA


Yihan Wu1, Tao Chang1, Siliang Chen1, Gerwin Schalk2,3, Ning Jiang1, Qing Mao1,
Yuan Yang1, and Jiayuan He1

Passive Intraoperative Tumor Mapping Using Electrocorticography

West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Fudan University, Shanghai, China


Yu Qi1,2,3,4, Xinyun Zhu4,5, Xinzhu Xiong4,5, Xiaomeng Yang4,5, Nai Ding6, Hemmings Wu7, Kedi Xu5, Junming Zhu7, Jianmin Zhang7, Yueming Wang2,5

Human Motor Cortex Encodes Complex Handwriting Through a Sequence of Primitive Neural States

Affiliated Mental Health Center and Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, MOE Frontier Science Center for
Brain Science and Brain-machine Integration, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
NANHU Brain-Computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou, China.
3 State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Biomedical Engineering and
Instrument Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.


Joon-Ho Shin

Efficacy of brain-computer interface training with motor imagery-contingent feedback in improving upper limb function and neuroplasticity among persons with chronic stroke: a double-blinded, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, National Rehabilitation Center


 

Camille Gontier, Nicolas Kunigk, William Hockeimer, Edgar Canario, Brian Dekleva, Jeff Weiss, Jennifer L. Collinger

Endogenous modifications in M1 activity allows online error
detection and correction in human BCI

Rehab Neural Engineering Labs of the University of Pittsburgh


Andrej M. Savić1*, Marija Novičić1, Vera Miler Jerković2, Olivera Đorđević3,4, Ljubica Konstantinović3,4

Project HYBIS: Electrotactile BCI for Top-Down Somatosensory Training

1 University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering, Serbia
2 Innovation Center of the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Medicine, Serbia
Clinic for Rehabilitation “Dr Miroslav Zotović”, Belgrade, Serbia


Taiga Seri1, Seitaro Iwama2, Kurumi Adachi1, Junichi Ushiba2

Intuitive avatar control through a non-invasive multimodal Brain-Computer Interface

Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan


Motoshige Sato1, Kenichi Tomeoka1, Ilya Horiguchi1, Kai Arulkumaran1, Ryota Kanai1, and Shuntaro Sasai1

Large-scale data practicalizes EEG-based speech decoding

Araya Inc.


Niklas Kueper1,2, Dr. Su Kyoung Kim1, Mathias Trampler1, Marc Tabie1, Kartik Chari1,2, Dr. Elsa Kirchner1,2

Robust online movement prediction from EEG data for post-stroke rehabilitation

Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), 28359, Bremen, Germany.
Institute of Medical Technology Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.


#Jury "Jury"

Jury of The BCI Award 2024
 

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Fabien Lotte

Chair 2024
Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest and LaBRI, France

 

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Nicholas Scott Card

Winner 2023
University of California, Davis, USA

 

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Maitreyee Wairagkar

Winner 2023
University of California, Davis, USA

 

 

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Maryam Alimardani

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

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Kaylo Littlejohn

University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

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Charles Greenspon

University of Chicago, USA

 

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#Ceremony "Ceremony"

BCI Award 2024 Ceremony

Presentation & Winner Announcements


Date: Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
Time: 14:00 - 17:00 (Vienna time)
Location: IEEE SMC 2024 Conference 

 

 

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