Pre-Conference Workshops - Thursday, July 28
| 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 |
Day 1 Program - Friday, July 29
| 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 |
Day 2 Program - Saturday, July 30
| 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) |
Day 3 Program - Sunday, July 31
| 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 |
Post-Conference Workshops - Monday, August 1
| 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 |