IEEE SMC 15th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems

** News** 

April 27, 2025: Extended paper submission deadlines posted

Full papers: New deadline May 4, 2025

Short papers: New deadline May 23, 2025

March 17, 2025: Two BMI Workshop Special Sessions Approved:

• Special Session 1 (code: ns37m) - Recent Advances of Brain-Computer Interfaces (Chair: Ivan Volosyak)

• Special Session 2 (code: 7xw2y) - BMIs in Telepresence and Immersive Reality Applications (Chairs: Tiago Falk, Marc-Antoine Moinnereau, Giacinto Barresi, and Yaoping Hu)

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The IEEE SMC 15th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems will be held from October 5-8, 2025 as part of SMC 2025 flagship annual conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. The Workshop provides a forum for scientists to present research results and facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between researchers, developers, and consumers of BMI technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in BMIs. The BMI Workshop is organized by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Brain-Machine Interface Systems. Participation is free to all registered SMC 2025 attendees.

We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in all fields related to BMI, including new neuroimaging modalities and sensor technologies, interfaces, protocols, signal enhancement and multimodal fusion, integration of BMIs with virtual/augmented reality, affective BMI, hybrid BMI, deep learning for BMI, neurorehabilitation, serious gaming, and emerging applications. These topics offer tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multi-disciplinary research, involving not only peers with expertise in the field of BMI and other neurotechnologies and those with expertise in systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The four-day Workshop will feature a series of events, including panels, the BR41N.IO brain-computer interface hackathon, prominent invited industry/academia speakers, and presented contributed papers and posters.

This is also the 10th year that the IEEE SMC BMI Workshop will host a BR41N.IO Brain-Computer Interface Hackathon with several cash prizes. The BCI Hackathon is a brainstorming and collaborative marathon designed to rapidly produce fully functional BCI prototypes with team members spread worldwide. The Hackathon will be held on October 5-6, 2025. Participation is free for SMC 2025 attendees. Learn more about the IEEE SMC 2025 BCI Hackathon projects and teams, how to form/join one, and how to register at br41n.io/IEEE-SMC-2025.