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Sep 24, 2026 A busy autumn: Ferdinand Louâpre starts a PhD on estimating neural network expressivity on October 1, co-supervised with Guillaume Charpiat. Sébastien Velut (November 2) and Thibault de Surrel (November 6) will defend their PhDs.
Sep 24, 2026 Our open source tools keep growing: pyRiemann passed 9 million downloads, Braindecode 1 million and MOABB 433k. Thanks to all contributors!
Sep 22, 2026 I am happy to be one of the organizers of the EEG/EMG Foundation Challenge 2026, now open! Can models trained on neurophysiological signals generalize to new people, sessions, tasks and conditions? Four tracks (EEG-to-image, BCI decoding, sleep onset, EMG-to-pose), a $20,000 prize pool, and results at the NeurIPS 2026 Brain & Body Workshop in Sydney. Organized by Yneuro, Inria and UC San Diego, with Meta and many partners; hosted on Codabench.
May 18, 2026 I gave an invited lecture at the Journées CORTICO 2026 in Lille, which celebrated 20 years of brain-computer interface research in France: “Du Bad Karma au Walk of Fame…”, on reproducibility in deep learning for EEG, from network architectures to training methodology and ablation studies.
Mar 24, 2026 Bruno Aristimunha successfully defended a PhD thesis on learning EEG representations with deep learning, in cotutelle with UFABC (Brazil) and co-supervised with Marie-Constance Corsi and Raphael Camargo. Congratulations Dr. Aristimunha!
Dec 07, 2025 What a success for the 2025 EEG Foundation Challenge at NeurIPS 2025: 119,000 visits worldwide, 1,200 teams and more than 8,000 submitted jobs. It was the second biggest competition of NeurIPS 2025, behind Google Code Golf. Thanks to all participants and co-organizers!
Oct 30, 2025 I gave a keynote lecture at PracticalMEEG 2025 in Aix-en-Provence: “AI use in M/EEG analyses: How to be a (good) practitioner in the LLM era?”, on how AI is transforming M/EEG analysis and how to use it responsibly and effectively.
Oct 02, 2025 Apolline Mellot received the 2024 Prix Doctorants du Plateau de Saclay, awarded in 2025! This selective prize is open to PhD candidates from both Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Université Paris-Saclay. Congratulations!
Jul 13, 2025 Thibault de Surrel work on Wrapped Gaussians on the manifold of SPD matrices, with Fabien Lotte, Florian Yger and me, is presented at ICML 2025 in Vancouver.
Jul 01, 2025 The 2025 EEG Foundation Challenge: From Cross-Task to Cross-Subject EEG Decoding is accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 Competition Track! I co-organize it with Bruno Aristimunha, Pierre Guetschel, Arnaud Delorme and Yahya Shirazi and many colleagues. See our proposal paper.
Mar 28, 2025 Manon Verbockhaven successfully defended a PhD thesis on the expressivity of neural networks and how to fix it optimally by growing the architecture, co-supervised with Guillaume Charpiat. The core results are in Growing Tiny Networks (TMLR).
Dec 10, 2024 Our paper Geodesic optimization for predictive shift adaptation on EEG data, with Apolline Mellot, Antoine Collas, Alexandre Gramfort and Denis Engemann, is presented as spotlight at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver.
Dec 02, 2024 Maria Sayu Yamamoto successfully defended a PhD thesis on similarity learning with Riemannian methods for high-dimensional EEG, co-supervised with Florian Yger and Fabien Lotte.
Nov 08, 2024 Apolline Mellot successfully defended a PhD thesis on statistical learning and domain adaptation for measuring brain health from MEG and EEG signals, co-supervised with Alexandre Gramfort and Denis Engemann.
Jul 02, 2024 The COFUND DeMythif.AI project, selected by the European Commission and led by the DATAIA Institute for the Paris-Saclay University, successfully completed the 2023 call. This funding will enable 14 new PhD to be co-financed for the start of the 2024 academic year, within 9 laboratories in 5 doctoral schools.
Apr 08, 2024 The largest EEG-based Brain-Computer interfaces benchmark is now available with MOABB! You can find the preprint that provides all the details and the results page on the MOABB website.
Mar 20, 2024 Codabench is the first ML framework for organizing scientific data competitions – more popular than Kaggle or Tianchi! – as reported by an independent organism.
Jan 09, 2024 Following the emeritus of Michele Sebag, I serve as the co-leader of AO/TAU team.
Oct 25, 2023 The MOABB 1.0 version is available! The project is now tightly integrated in BrainDecode to use deep neural net models on open EEG datasets.
Oct 23, 2023 Our MANOLO project is accepted! This is a Horizon project involving 17 partners on Trustworthy Efficient AI. We are leading a task on frugal learning with growing deep neural networks.
Sep 15, 2023 It is possible to submit AI-related PhD subject for the COFUND DeMythif.AI, led by DATAIA, for hiring an international PhD student. Apply here!
Jul 03, 2023 The DATAIA DeMythif.AI Cofund project from Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions is accepted! I am the leader of this MSCA European project: we aim to hire 30 PhD students in AI-related domains (uncertainty, frugality, explainability) for the whole University Paris-Saclay in 2024 and 2025.
May 23, 2023 I am thrilled to announce the release of MOABB library version 0.5! Designed specifically for evaluating brain decoding models, this latest release is packed with new features and improvements, making benchmarking machine learning models easier and more effective than ever before.
Nov 09, 2022 Our approach on functionnal connectivity for BCI out in IEEE Trans. BioMedEng! Called Fucone, as the old Corsican word, the code is available on GitHub, relying mostly on MOABB and Pyriemann.
Nov 09, 2022 Our paper on Bayesian accumulation for Riemannian probabilities applied to P300 speller is out! The live demo is available with Timeflux and the paper’s code is on GitHub
Oct 20, 2022 I co-organized the IFRATH/Cortico miniconference on brain-computer interface and handicap in Paris.
Oct 11, 2022 I gave an interview in the French Podcast “Dans la handitech”, by Julie Preciat and Paris&Co.
Jul 17, 2022 New PyRiemann version out! There are nice addition in this new version, see the release notes
May 31, 2022 Isabelle Hoxha is finalist of the national contest “Ma Thèse en 180 secondes”, the replay of her talk is available here
Apr 09, 2022 Isabelle Hoxha is a national finalist of MT180 (Ma Thèse en 180s), the last part will be held the 31st of May in Lyon.
Feb 22, 2022 A new version of MOABB is available in PyPi! With new datasets, visualisation and bug fixing, check the documentation here.
Feb 14, 2022 Paper describing winning solution of Beetl NeurIPS competition and take home message is out on arXiv. It will be published in JMLR.
Nov 24, 2021 I organized the Brain Age Prediction Challenge from EEG, with Sebastien Treguer, to estimate age of infants from brain signals. All details are available on the competition website.
Oct 29, 2021 With Pierre Clisson, Raphaelle Betrand-Lalo and CogLab team, we are organizing the NTX Hackathon 2022 in Paris, together with 6 other locations around the world.
Sep 13, 2021 Our team named Rigoletto, with Marie-Constance Corsi, Florian Yger, Isabelle Hoxha and Quentin Barthélemy, finished 3rd in the Grand Challenge: Passive BCI Hackathon during Neuroergonomics 2021.
Sep 09, 2021 I’ll be animating a workshop at DevBreak.io on how to build brain-computer interfaces with Timeflux.
Jun 09, 2021 I co-organize a workshop on Riemannian geometry methods and tools for EEG processing during 8th International BCI Meeting, slides and material available here.
Jun 07, 2021 Kudos! Maria Sayu Yamamoto obtained the best poster presentation award during the 8th International BCI Meeting.
May 31, 2021 Beetl competition starts! https://beetl.ai/schedule
May 06, 2021 Two papers accepted at ICASSP!
May 04, 2021 Presenting paper on transfer learning at IEEE EMBS conference on neural engineering (NER)
Apr 22, 2021 Presenting Open-source Python tools for BCIs during BCI Thursday with Pierre Clisson, Marco Congedo and Raphaelle Betrand Lalo. Slides and demos are available on GitHub.
Apr 01, 2021 Maria Sayu Yamamoto starts her PhD, with a competitive UDOPIA grant.
Feb 12, 2021 Maria Sayu Yamamoto obtained the BCI Society Student Award. This award was given for her work as MSc student.
Oct 28, 2020 Together with M.C. Corsi, F. Yger and C. Noûs, we will present our work on extending Riemannian BCI for functional connectivity estimator at IROS workshop: videos and live sessions are on the website.
Oct 21, 2020 I’ll be a chair of the Cortico Days online on the 21st of October. Videos will be accessible online. The discussions on the association future will be held at 6:00 PM, don’t forget to vote!
Oct 01, 2020 New PhD starting: Isabelle Hoxha!
Sep 17, 2020 Our paper on averaging partially observed covariance matrices is accepted at ACML! This is a joint work with F. Yger, Q. Barthelemy and S. Sra.
Apr 15, 2020 Amina Alaoui-Belghiti will present her work in ICASSP virtual conference and registration is free!
Apr 03, 2020 The annual Cortico meeting is reported due to Covid pandemic
Feb 01, 2020 L’université de Lille recrute un MCF sur les interfaces cerveau-machine
Dec 15, 2019 Deux postes de MCF sont ouverts au LISV! Les informations sont disponibles sur Galaxie.