SPECIAL EVENT
NxGenBCI 2025: Next generation Brain-Computer Interfaces
Non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to translate brain activity into commands. Despite their promising results for counteracting neurological symptoms, current systems fail to detect the users' intent in 15-30% of subjects (referred to as "BCI inefficiency"), limiting the diffusion of BCIs beyond laboratory settings. Efforts have been made to improve BCI usability by providing guidelines and predictors of performance. Yet, BCIs remain barely used in clinical settings and by patients in their daily life.
The NxGenBCI event will address current challenges in clinical BCI research by identifying and discussing key methodological and technological aspects to enhance its efficacy. The workshop will comprise oral and poster presentations on advanced approaches to address "BCI inefficiency" across various disciplines, specifically: i) neurophysiology (through characterization of neural processes underlying BCI performance), ii) engineering (through development of novel approaches to improve capture and detection of users' intent), and iii) clinical (through proposing recommendations for designing and conducting clinical protocols). Then the workshop will provide an opportunity for industry representatives to showcase their products through oral presentations and demonstrations. Finally, panel discussions comprising industry representatives, researchers, and clinicians will be held.
This event aims to gather individuals interested in clinical applications of BCI, including clinicians, researchers from diverse fields, and industry professionals. The objective is to establish a lively dialogue among these disciplines.
ORGANIZED BY
Pasquale Arpaia
Pasquale Arpaia
University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Marie-Constance Corsi
Marie-Constance Corsi
Paris Brain Institute, Inria, France
Luigi Lavorgna
Luigi Lavorgna
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", NeuroDigits.r.l., Italy
Calogero Maria Oddo
Calogero Maria Oddo
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Mauro Ursino
Mauro Ursino
University of Bologna, Italy
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Pasquale Arpaia received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, where he is a full professor of Measurement. He is director of the Interdepartmental Center for Research on Health Management and Innovation (CIRMIS), Head of the Augmented Reality Laboratory for Health Monitoring (ARHeMLab. He is a Team Leader at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In recent years, he has been scientific manager of more than 30 competitive research projects in collaboration with industry, with related international patents and licenses, and has founded 4 academic spin-off companies. He has served as a scientific evaluator in several international research committees. He is general chair of XR Salento, IEEE IWIS and IEEE MetroXRAINE. He is an annual plenary speaker at several international scientific conferences.
Marie-Constance Corsi is an Inria research scientist at the Paris Brain Institute in the NERV Lab since 2022. She previously completed a PhD at the University of Grenoble Alpes (France) on the development of Helium 4 optically-pumped magnetometers for magnetocardiography and magnetoencephalography. Her research focuses on the development of tools to improve Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), reflected by a non-negligible portion of users who cannot control the device even after several training sessions. She essentially considers three main approaches: the search for neurophysiological markers of BCI training, the integration of multimodal data to enrich the information provided to the classifier, and the development of portable systems.
Luigi Lavorgna is an Italian neurologist specializing in digital neurology and telemedicine. Based at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli," he leads the "Digital neurology & artificial intelligence”" group for the Italian Neurological Society (SIN). His research focuses on using telemedicine and wearable devices to monitor neurological conditions like multiple sclerosis and dementia. Lavorgna also directs the NeuroDigit Spin-off, promoting innovation in neurology.
Calogero Maria Oddo graduated as honours college student of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, where he had been admitted in 2002 after a public selection with 10 positions and more than 300 applicants. During his studies, he also attended courses at the London School of Economics and Political Science and he joined experimental campaigns promoted by the European Space Agency, such as the parabolic flight in microgravity and the ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge. He is the Principal Investigator of the Neuro-Robotic Touch Laboratory at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, a group with 25+ researchers recruited as postdoctoral fellows (4), PhD students (20) or research fellows and assistants (2), plus several MSc students involved for theses or lab training activities.
Mauro Ursino is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. He has been an associate editor and member of the editorial board of several international journals and been responsible for several research grants on physiological modeling. His research activity is mainly focused on mathematical modeling of complex physiological systems. He has been working on cardiovascular regulatory mechanisms and cerebral autoregulation for many years. At present, his research interests are mainly focused on computational neuroscience via biologically inspired neural networks. In this field, he is working on the modeling of multisensory integration in the brain, on the neural substrate of semantic memory, on alterations of basal ganglia and levodopa pharmacokinetics in Parkinson's disease, and the role of brain oscillations in cognition. Recently, he has also been working on the estimation of brain connectivity from EEG data in healthy and pathological conditions (autism spectrum disorders, Schizophrenia, fear conditioning).
