The scientific program for the 2022 joint meeting of Neuroergonomics and NYC Neuromodulation Conferences spans 3 days with 20+ curated sessions.Your registration includes access to the scientific program, posters, exhibits, and social events intended to encourage new connections and collaborations. For 1 day before and after the scientific program, hands-on practicals are available. See Pre- & Post-Conference Workshops >>
This program is in development with additional sessions and talks posted shortly.
The conference is thematically organized around the themes of Emotion and HRV, Communication and Language, Closed-Loop Technology BCI, Pain, Addiction and Binge Eating, Recovery, Performance, and Skill, Eye-tracking, Social Medical, Neuromarketing, and Remote/mobile sensing in the wild. These themes are intended to encourage discussion that fuse traditional sub-domains of brain and health technologies.
9 AM - 4 PM | Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): Advanced Theory and Hands-on Workshop Directors: Adam J Woods, PhD, Helena Knotkova, PhD, Marom Bikson, PhD |
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9 AM - 4 PM | Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Workshop: Data collection, preprocessing, analysis Directors: Adrian Curtin, PhD, Frederic Dehais, PhD, Hasan Ayaz, PhD |
12 - 4 PM | Real-time and close-loop EEG processing with the open-source OpenViBE platform: hands-on workshop Directors: Fabien Lotte, PhD, Sébastien Rimbert, PhD, Thomas Prampart, PhD, Laurent Bougrain, PhD |
1 - 4 PM | A primer on machine learning for physiological signals Directors: Jacek Dmochowski, PhD |
4 - 6 PM | Post-Workshop / Pre-Conference Al Fresco Social @ SKINNY’S CANTINA – ON THE HUDSON |
7 AM | Conference Venue / Registration Opens |
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7:00 - 7:30 AM | Baron Short, MD & Bashar Badran, PhD - Daily Morning Guided Meditation with Optional E-Meditation (free to all conference attendees) |
7:30 - 8:25 AM | Sponsors Morning Workshop 1 with Breakfast - Soterix Medical: Advances in Image Guided tES, TMS, and ultrasound modulation ![]() |
7:30 - 8:25 AM | Sponsors Morning Workshop 2 with Breakfast - Yingchi Technology ![]() |
8:25 - 8:30 AM | Day 1 - Opening Remarks: Giussepina Pilloni, Marom Bikson, Hasan Ayaz |
8:30 - 10:18 AM | Session 1: Neurotechnology and Brain Aging (Great Hall) Moderator: Hyein Cho, PhD |
8:30 AM | Benjamin Hampstead, PhD - How higher dose and home-based HD-tDCS may change treatment of dementia |
8:48 AM | Meltem Izzetoglu, PhD - Prefrontal hemodynamics during single and dual task walking in older adults |
9:06 AM | Adam Woods, PhD - Neuromodulation to counteract cognitive aging |
9:24 AM | Bingmei Fu, PhD - tDCS flushes the brain |
9:42 AM | Helena Knotkova, PhD - Neurostimulation for cognitive enhancement (Alzheimer's disease) and pain (Pailative care) in older adults |
10 AM | Petra Ritter, PhD - EEG Rhythms, Dynamic primitives of brain networks, Brain Stimulation, and Alzheimer’s Disease |
10:18 - 10:40 AM | Coffee Break Sponsored by ![]() |
10:40 - 12:15 PM | Session 2: Addicted brain and Neurotechnology (Great Hall) Moderator: Marom Bikson, PhD |
10:40 AM | Colleen Hanlon, PhD - Pain, smoking and drinking: From bain imaging to brain stimulation |
10:58 AM | Ali Rezai, MD - Neuromodulation for addiction |
11:16 AM | Rita Z Goldstein, PhD - Brain Imaging and Modulaiton of craving, sleepiness, and contemplation to change |
11:34 AM | Andrew Stephen Huhn, PhD - Wearable neuroimaging for opioid use disorder treatment |
11:52 AM | Laura Berner, PhD - Binge eating and identifying neurobiological mechanisms that underlie cognitive control |
12:15 - 1:30 PM | Networking/Exhibits/Posters & Lunch - Food Truck Lunch on the Lawn (on your own) |
1:30 - 2:42 PM | Session 3: Creative Brain / Wired Brain (Great Hall, Parallel) Moderator: Roy Hamilton, MD |
1:30 PM | Barbara Colombo, PhD - Cognitive reserve, aging, emotion, creativity and brain stimulation |
1:48 PM | John Kounious, PhD - The Neuroscience of novice and expert creative performance: Insights from jazz improvisation |
2:06 PM | Anjan Chatterjee, PhD - Neuroaesthetics |
2:24 PM | Evangelia G. Chrysikou, PhD - Augmenting creativity with non-invasive brain stimulation |
1:30 - 2:42 PM | Session 4: Eye-movement & Cognition: What the Eyes Reveal (Parallel, Shepard 250) Moderator: Lucas Parra, PhD |
1:30 PM | JohnRoss Rizzo,PhD - Eye tracking in illness- new devices/ assistive technology & advanced wearables in vision disability |
1:48 PM | Andrew Duchowski, PhD - Latest in eye- tracking methods |
2:06 PM | Carryl Baldwin, PhD - Pupil dilation as an index of learning |
2:24 PM | Kevin Chan, PhD - NIBS in glaucoma and vision loss/ Visual Plasticity in Adulthood: From Hebbian and Homestatic Plasticity |
2:42 PM | Jens Madsen, PhD - Cognitive processing of a common stimulus synchronizes brains, hearts, and eyes |
2:42 - 3:00 PM | Session O1: Oral Highlights (Parallel, Great Hall) |
Pankaj Sah - Role for the amygdala in treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder using deep brain stimulation | |
Oshin Tyagi - Brain dynamics with motor performance under stress in older adults | |
Joyce Bore-Norton, PhD - Cortical activation by directional STN-DBS in Parkinson’s disease revealed using subject-specific MEG source localization | |
Erin McCulloch - Electrical vestibular nerve stimulation (VeNS): A follow-up safety assessment of long-term usage | |
3 - 3:20 PM | Coffee Break |
3:20 - 5:44 PM | Session 5: Boosting Performance (1): The Mind (Parallel - Great Hall) |
3:20 PM | Daniel Callan, PhD - Measuring and stimulating the brain at the extremes of perfomance |
3:38 PM | Vince Clark, PhD - Using electric, acoustic and radiant energies to improve learning |
3:56 PM | Greg Appelbaum, PhD - Controlling unwanted thoughts in addiction, depression, surgeons, and athletes with brain stimulaiton |
4:14 PM | John Medaglia, PhD - Personalizing neuromodulation to enhance cognition |
4:32 PM | Xavier Intes, PhD - Surgeon cognitive workload and deep learning applications for optical brain imaging |
4:50 PM | Faranak Farzan, PhD - EEG microstates, fluid intelligence, cognitive training, and brain stimulaiton |
5:08 PM | Ines Violante, PhD - Cognitive enhancement with salience network electrical stimulation |
5:26 PM | Stephane Perrey, PhD - Stimulating the brain for improving mental performance in sport: does it work? |
3:20 - 4:32 PM | Session 6: Virtual Agents (Parallel - Shepard 250) |
3:20 PM | Maria Schultheis, PhD - The application of virtual reality technology in rehabilitation |
3:38 PM | Faranak Farzan, PhD - Digital therapeutics, virtual reality, TMS: early diagnostic and effective therapeutic solutions for youth mental health |
3:56 PM | Erin Solovey, PhD - Investigating trust in interaction with inconsistent embodied virtual agents |
4:14 PM | Leanne Hirshfield, PhD - Understanding the Effects of Cyber Warfare on Human Operators using fNIRS |
4:32 - 5:44 PM | Session 7: When the Computer Types Back: Latest Developments in Bidirectional BCI (Parallel, Shepard 250) Moderator: Hasan Ayaz, PhD |
4:32 PM | Pulkit Grover, PhD - Leveraging neural nonlinearity for focused transcranial electrical stimulation: synthesizing machine-learning and biophysical models |
4:50 PM | Riki Banerjee, PhD - Endovascular brain computer interface |
5:08 PM | TBD - Brain-computer interface devices: What's holding us back? |
5:26 PM | Flavia Vitale, PhD - MXene-infused bioelectronic interfaces for multiscale electrophysiology and stimulation |
6 PM | Cocktail and Jazz Reception at The City College of New York (free to all conference attendees) |
7 PM | Exhibit Hall Closes |
7 AM | Conference Venue / Registration Opens |
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7 - 7:30 AM | Baron Short, MD & Bashar Badran, PhD - Daily Morning Guided Meditation with Optional E-Meditation (free to all conference attendees) |
7:30 - 8:25 AM | Sponsors Morning Workshop 3 with Breakfast - Nirx ![]() |
7:30 - 8:25 AM | Sponsors Morning Workshop 4 with Breakfast |
8:25 - 8:30 AM | Day 2 - Opening Remarks: Giussepina Pilloni, Leigh Charvet, Frederic Dehais |
8:30 - 10 AM | Session 8: Wearable Mobile Neurotechnologies |
8:30 AM | Belen Lafon, PhD - Wearables, algorithms, and feeling good |
8:48 AM | Mary Lou Jepsen, PhD - Next-gen portable neuroimaging for medical diagnostics |
9:06 AM | Tim Mullen, PhD - Realtime tDCS & EEG or closed-loop brain-machine-body interfaces for noninvasive rehabilitation of movement disorders |
9:24 AM | Ryan Field, PhD - Next-gen mobile neuroimaging for everyday use |
9:42 AM | Tiago H. Falk, PhD - Wearable BCIs for xR |
10 AM | David Boas, PhD - Toward neuroscience of the everyday world using functional near-infrared spectroscopy |
10:18 - 10:40 AM | Coffee Break |
10:40 - 12:10 PM | Session 9: Consumer Neuroergonomics Moderator: Hasan Ayaz, PhD |
10:40 AM | Michael Platt, PhD - Unlock the potential of human in the workplace: the brain power approach |
10:58 AM | Flavia Vitale, PhD - Electronic clothing: Nanotechnology-enabled approaches against the COVID-19 pandemic |
11:16 AM | Brett Wingeier, PhD - The difference and similarities between consumer and medical neuromodulation |
11:34 AM | Ippeita Dan - A Willingness-to-pay associated right prefrontal activation during a single, real use of lipsticks as assessed using functional near-infrared spectroscopy |
11:52 PM | Lucas Parra, PhD - Neuromarketing: Crowd wisdom enhanced by costly signaling in a virtual rating system |
12:10 - 12:30 PM | Session O2: Oral Highlights |
Mahima Sharma, PhD - New insights on eCAPs for spinal cord stimulation (SCS) | |
Aprinda Indahlastari, PhD - High fidelity tdcs finite element models to predict changes in functional connectivity of the working memory networks in older adults | |
Yun-Sung Lee - Effect of an individualized stimulation frequency for transcranial alternating current stimulation on cognitive function | |
Keum-Shik Hong, PhD - Comparison of tAC- and tDC-stimulation techniques using fNIRS | |
Lindsey McIntire - Cervical Transcutaneous Vagal Nerve Stimulation Sustains Cognitive Performance during 34-Hours of Sustained Wakefulness | |
12:30 - 1:30 PM PM | Networking/Exhibits/Posters & Lunch - Food Truck Lunch on the Lawn (on your own) |
1:30 - 3 PM | Session 10: AI Solves The Brain (Parallel - Great Hall) Moderator: Lucas Parra, PhD |
1:30 PM | TBD - Brain Computer Interfaces for Human Augmentation |
1:48 PM | Fabien Lotte, PhD - New and emerging advanced machine learning approaches for BCI |
2:06 PM | Arnaud Delorme, PhD - Assessing learned features of Deep Learning applied to EEG |
2:24 PM | TBD - Deep Learning for EEG, cognition in older age, and stress |
2:42 PM | Ranjana Mehta, PhD - Prediction of viral symptoms using wearable technology and artificial intelligence: A pilot study in healthcare workers |
1:30 - 3 PM | Session 11: Boosting Perfomance (2): The Body (Parallel, Shepard 205) Moderator: Cristin Grace Welle, PhD |
1:30 PM | Dylan J. Edwards, PhD - Robotically enhanced motor practice in neurorehabilitation |
1:48 PM | Cristin Grace Welle, PhD - VNS enhances motor learning and myelin plasticity |
2:06 PM | John Martin, PhD - Cortical and spinal cord stimulation enhance recovery from brain injury |
2:24 PM | Greg Appelbaum, PhD - From virtual reality to imaging to brain stimulation: Accelerating learning of surgeons, athletes and shooting |
2:42 - 3:00 PM | Charlotte Stagg, PhD - Mechanisms underpinning human motor learning for developing new treatment approaches |
3:00 - 3:20 PM | Coffee Break |
3:20 - 4:30 PM | Session 12: When the Computer Types Back: Latest Developments in Bidirectional BCI (Part 2) (Parallel, Shepard 250) Moderator: Ranjana Mehta, PhD |
3:20 PM | Thorsten Zanders, PhD - Neuroadaptive BCI |
3:20 PM | Angelique C Paulk, PhD - Advancing large-scale single cell recording and neurostimulation precision in the human brain |
3:38 PM | Jacob Robinson, PhD - Read-write BCI development |
3:56 PM | Frederic Dehais, PhD - Dual passive-active BCI |
4:12 PM | TBD |
3:20 - 4:48 PM | Session 13: New Currents in Brain Stimulation (Parallel, Great Hall) Moderator: Giuseppina Pilloni |
3:20 PM | Sarah Lisanby, MD - Brain-Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) |
3:38 PM | Hayriye Cagnan, PhD - Stimulating at the right time: Brain stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation |
3:56 PM | Jacek Dmochowski, PhD - How focused ultrasound and near-infrared light change brain rhythms and connectivity |
4:12 PM | Elisa E. Konofagou, PhD - Ultrasound based therapeutics |
4:30 PM | Rosana Esteller, PhD - Revolutionizing neuromodulation therapy with dynamic stimulation |
4:48 - 6 PM | Session 14: Social Neuroergonomics (Parallel, Great Hall) |
4:48 PM | Uri Hasson, PhD - Brain-to-brain coupling: A mechanism for creating and sharing a social world/Narratives: fMRI data for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension |
5:06 PM | Suzanne Dikker, PhD - Brain-to-brain synchrony tracks real-world dynamic group interactions in the classroom |
5:24 PM | Hasan Ayaz, PhD - Interpersonal Brain Synchrony for Cooperative Team Dynamics During Competitive E-Gaming of Adults and Natural Social Interaction of Children |
5:42 - 6 PM | Ranjana Mehta, PhD - The eyes are windows into the brain: Sex parity for effective Human-Autonomy Teaming |
4:48 - 5:48 PM | Session 15: Panel Discussion - What academics need to know about engineering useful neuromodulation devices (Parallel, Shepard 250) |
Kate Rosenbluth (Cala Health), Erika K. Ross (Abbott), Rosana Esteller (Boston Scientific), Jennifer Ernst (Tivic Health) | |
6:30 PM | Exhibit Hall Closes |
7 PM | Conference Gala Dinner (Seperate registration required) |
7 AM | Conference Venue / Registration Opens |
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7 - 7:30 AM | Baron Short, MD & Bashar Badran, PhD - Daily Morning Guided Meditation with Optional E-Meditation (free to all conference attendees) |
7:30 - 8:25 AM | Sponsors Morning Workshop 5 with Breakfast - fNIR Devices ![]() |
7:30 - 8:25 AM | Sponsors Morning Workshop 6 with Breakfast |
8:25 - 8:30 AM | Day 3 - Opening Remarks: Giussepina Pilloni, Roy Hamilton, Ranjana K Mehta |
8:30 - 10 AM | Session 16: What The Heart Tells The Brain, and Vice Versa (Great Hall) Moderator: Giuseppina Pilloni, PhD |
8:30 AM | Lucas Parra, PhD - Storytelling makes hearts (and brains) beat as one |
8:48 AM | Bashar Badran, PhD - What the heart tells us about brain stimulation: From Babies, to COVID, to zero-gravity |
9:06 AM | Camila Cosmo, PhD - What brain and heart activity tell us about when to apply tDCS and TMS (for PTSD, ADHD, and inhibtory control) |
9:42 AM | Esra Al, PhD - Heartbeats modulates conscious perception |
10 - 10:20 AM | Coffee Break |
10:20 - 12:06 PM | Session 17: Why So Sad? Neurotechnology for Attention and Mood Moderator: Marom Bikson, PhD |
10:20 AM | Harold A. Sackeim, PhD - Treatment of treatment-resistant depression with brain stimulation |
10:38 AM | Mark S. George, MD - Electromagnetic neuromodulation therapy for depression: The road from invention to FDA approval to therapy enhancement |
10:56 AM | Andre Brunoni, MD, PhD - Digitizing Neuromodulation: Transcranial Electric Stimulation as a mobile mental Health device |
11:12 AM | Eleanor J. Cole, PhD - Accelerated intelligent neuromodulation therapy for treatment-resistant depression |
11:30 AM | Tracy Dennis, PhD - Mobile therapy games and ABMT |
11:48 PM | Helen Mayberg, MD - Deep brain stimulation for depression |
12:06 - 12:30 PM | Session O3 - Oral Highlights |
William J. Huffman, MS - In vivo and computational studies of the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on heart rate | |
Nigel Gebodh - Deep learning framework for non-invasive closed-loop neuromodulation for attention | |
Ji-Yoon Lee - Gender Effect on brain responses during voice-user interaction | |
Heloise de Baun - Network-level mechanisms underlying effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on visuomotor learning in schizophrenia | |
Caroline Hamery - Transcranial random noise stimulation enhances retention performance after training of a complex cognitive task | |
Nishant Verma, MS - Alzheimer’s Therapy: Cranial nerve stimulation to promote glymphatic function | |
12:30 - 1:30 PM | Networking/Exhibits/Posters & Lunch - Food Truck Lunch on the Lawn (on your own) | 1:30 - 3 PM | Session 18: Mental Workload Passive BCI (Great Hall, Parallel) |
1:30 PM | Ryan McKendrick, PhD - Passive measurement of cognitive load: Lessons learned and recommendations from applied application |
1:48 PM | Matthias Ziegler, PhD - Computational models for near-real-time performance predictions based on physiological measures of workload |
2:06 PM | Kurtulus Izzetoglu, PhD - fNIRS Measures of Cognitive Workload During a UAS Mission and Training |
2:24 PM | TBD |
2:42 PM | Denny Yu, PhD - Real-time non-intrusive workload monitoring-Integration in surgery training and assessment |
1:30 - 3 PM | Session 19: Electrophysiological Markers of Brain Health in Neuromodulation (Parallel, Shepard 250) |
1:30 PM | Faranak Farzan, PhD - EEG markers of brain health in understanding the mechanisms of action of TMS and ECT in MDD |
1:48 PM | Ilknur Telkes, PhD - EEG patterns of spinal cord stimulation for pain and deep brain stimulation for PTSD and parkinson's |
2:06 PM | Inês Violante, PhD - Closed-loop (fMRI, EEG, MEG) neuromodulation with Bayesian optimization |
2:24 PM | Gesa Hartwigsen, PhD - Combining non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation with neuroimaging and electrophysiology: targeted therapies and inferring causality in cognitive neuroscience |
2:42 PM | Joshua Jacobs, PhD - Understanding neuronal codes and oscillations to optimize direct cortical stimulation |
3 - 3:20 PM | Coffee Break Sponsored by ![]() |
3:20 - 3:56 PM | Session 20: The New (and Old) Ethics on Brain-Machine Interfaces (Parallel, Shepard 250) Moderator: Banu Onaral, PhD |
3:20 PM | Anna Wexler, PhD - Ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding emerging brain technology |
3:38 PM | Laura Cabrera, PhD - Ethical, social, and policy implications of neuroscience advances and neurotechnologies. |
3:56 PM | Helen Mayberg, MD - When the brain stimulator stops suicide, how can you turn it off? | 3:20 - 3:56 PM | Session 21: Government Panel: Priorities in Technology for Brain Interfaces |
Moderator: Marom Bikson, PhD Panelists: Sahana Kukke, PhD (NIH NINDS) - Sarah Lisanby, MD (NIH NIMH) | |
4 - 4:20 PM | Awards and closing remarks |
4:30 - 5:30 PM | Women in Neurotech - Great hall, The City College of New York |
9 AM - 12 PM | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Neuroscience and Clinical Practice: Hands-on Workshop Directors: Bashar Badran PhD, Eleanor Cole, PhD |
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11 AM - 4 PM | EEG Workshop: Data collection, preprocessing, analysis Directors: Simon Ladouce, PhD, Adrian Curtin, PhD, Hasan Ayaz, PhD, Frederic Dehais, PhD |