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The 14th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'21)
September 17-19, 2021
The conference will be held in Fully VIRTUAL mode
Call for Participation
* Conference Programme Available *
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/download/BI2021-Program_at_a_Glance.pdf">https://bi2021.org/download/BI2021-Program_at_a_Glance.pdf</a>
Homepage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bi2021.org/">https://www.bi2021.org/</a>
Innovative Computational Approaches for
Understanding Brain Functions and Treat its Disorders
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The Brain Informatics (BI) conference series has established itself as the world's premier research forum on Brain Informatics, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field with joint efforts from neuroscience, cognitive science, medicine and life sciences, data science, artificial intelligence, neuroimaging technologies, and information and communication technologies.
The 14th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI2021) provides a virtual international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences on Brain Informatics research, brain-inspired technologies and brain/mental health applications.
*** Watch or Live Streaming Events (Free) ***
Day 1 (17 September 2021):
- Opening Ceremony
Chair: Professor Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Link 1 (08:30-09:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0">https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0</a>
Link 2 (15:30-16:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ</a>
- Keynote Speech 1
Maurizio Corbetta
Professor and Chair of Neurology in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Padua,
Founding Director of the Padua Neuroscience Center, Italy
Title: Toward a Computational Model of Brains Affected by Stroke with an Eye to Their Repair
Link 1 (09:00-10:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0">https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0</a>
Link 2 (16:00-17:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ</a>
- Keynote Speech 2
Stafano Panzeri
Endowed Full Professor, Department of Neural Information Processing (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany
Title: Inferring Neural Circuit Interactions and Neuromodulation from Field Potentials and Electroencephalogram Measures
Link 1 (10:00-11:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0">https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0</a>
Link 2 (17:00-18:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ</a>
- Keynote Speech 3
Wulfram Gerstner
Professor, Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Title: Neo-Hebbian Three-Factor Rules of Synaptic Plasticity: From Reward to Surprise
Link 1 (11:30-12:30 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0">https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0</a>
Link 2 (18:30-19:30 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ</a>
- Keynote Speech 4
Tianzi Jiang
Professor and Director, Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Title: Tackle Grand Challenges in Brain Health with Artificial Intelligence
Link 1 (12:30-13:30 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0">https://youtu.be/MFS87Bea0s0</a>
Link 2 (19:30-20:30 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TyY6pRVXdPYJ</a>
Day 2 (18 September 2021):
- Keynote Speech 5
Nikola Kasabov
Professor of Knowledge Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand,
George Moore Chair/Professor, University of Ulster, UK
Title: Brain-Inspired Brain Informatics: Methods, Systems, Applications
Link 1 (09:00-10:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM">https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM</a>
Link 2 (16:00-17:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ</a>
- Keynote Speech 6
Xinguang Yu
Professor, Chinese PLA General Hospital and Nankai University School of Medicine,
Director of Institute of Neurosurgery in Chinese PLA General Hospital, China
Title: Quantitative Assessment Essential Tremor Based on Machine Learning Methods Using Wearable Device
Link 1 (10:00-11:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM">https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM</a>
Link 2 (17:00-18:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ</a>
- Keynote Speech 7
Simon B. Eickhoff
Director, Institute of Systems Neuroscience Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Title: From Areas and Networks to Individual Predictions
Link 1 (11:30-12:30 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM">https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM</a>
Link 2 (18:30-19:30 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ</a>
- Keynote Speech 8
Partha P. Mitra
Crick-Clay Professor, Biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA,
Prof. H.N. Mahabala Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research at IIT Madras, India
Title: Mapping and Analyzing the Circuit Architecture of Mammalian Brains at the Mesoscopic Scale
Link 1 (12:30-13:30 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM">https://youtu.be/emmqdepOHcM</a>
Link 2 (19:30-20:30 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/TqQccipWJlPJ</a>
Day 3 (19 September 2021):
- Closing Ceremony + Awards + Next BI 2022 Announcement
Chair: Professor Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Link 1 (11:30-12:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/6fno1NYlXas">https://youtu.be/6fno1NYlXas</a>
Link 2 (18:30-19:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.tencent.com/l/gnArvWZrAqlG">https://meeting.tencent.com/l/gnArvWZrAqlG</a>
*** Parallel Sessions and Workshops/Special-Sessions ***
Thanks to the conference sponsors, the conference organizers can offer some complimentary registrations to
the academic attendees who would need them.
The link for the application is: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/register/index.php">https://bi2021.org/register/index.php</a> and the deadline is 16 September 2021.
*** Workshops & Special Sessions ***
Day 1 (17 September 2021):
14:00-16:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00
21:00-23:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00
WS10: International Workshop on Application of AI Driven Tools Towards Inclusive and Personalised Education for Students with Learning Disabilities (AI-TOP)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS10-AI-TOP-Brown.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS10-AI-TOP-Brown.pdf</a>
Organizers:
David J Brown, Department of Computer Science, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Mufti Mahmud, Department of Computer Science, Nottingham Trent University, UK
M Shamim Kaiser, Institute of Information Technology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Karel Van Isacker, PhoenixKM BV, Kortemark, Belgium.
WS04: International Workshop on Cutting Edge Technologies for Human-Computer Interaction
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~csyxli/CET-HCI2021/">https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~csyxli/CET-HCI2021/</a>
Organizers:
Paolo Mengoni, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Kristen Li, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Sanghyuk Lee, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Haolan Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
WS05: The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Neuroaesthetics (IWCN 2021)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS05-WCN2021-Zhang.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS05-WCN2021-Zhang.pdf</a>
Organizer:
Junsong Zhang, Xiamen University, China
WS06: International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare (IWCIH 2021)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS06-CIH2021-Chen.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS06-CIH2021-Chen.pdf</a>
Organizers:
Tianhua Chen, University of Huddersfield, UK
Pan Su, North China Electric Power University, China
Archie Khuman, De Montfort University, UK
Lu Chen, Shanxi University, China
WS09: International Workshop on Internet Adaption and Mental Health (IAMH 2021)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS09-IAMH2021-Jin.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS09-IAMH2021-Jin.pdf</a>
Organizers:
Cacan Jin, Department of Psychology, Beijing Forestry University, China
Xiuya Lei, Department of Psychology, Beijing Forestry University, China
Yang Yang, Department of Psychology, Beijing Forestry University, China
Zelong Meng, Department of Psychology, Beijing Forestry University, China
SS02: Special Session on Imaging the Young Minds (IYM)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/SS02-IYM-Yang.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/SS02-IYM-Yang.pdf</a>
Organizers:
Zhi Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Shaozheng Qin, Beijing Normal University, China
SS03: Special Session on New Methods and Technology in the Brain Imaging (NMTBI)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/SS03-NMTBI-Hu.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/SS03-NMTBI-Hu.pdf</a>
Organizer:
Zhenghui Hu, College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Day 2 (18 September 2021):
14:00-16:00 UK Time, GMT+01:00
21:00-23:00 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00
WS11: The 2021 Workshop on Web Intelligence meets Brain Informatics (WImBI)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS11-WImBI21-Chen.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS11-WImBI21-Chen.pdf</a>
Organizers:
Jianhui Chen, International WIC Institute, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China
Jiajin Huang, International WIC Institute, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China
WS02: The 3rd International Workshop on Computationally Intelligent Methods in Processing and Analysis of Neuronal Big Data (CIMPANBD)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS02-CIMPANBD2021-Mahmud.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS02-CIMPANBD2021-Mahmud.pdf</a>
Organizers:
Mufti Mahmud, Nottingham Trent University, UK
M Shamim Kaiser, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
WS07: The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Brain Image Analysis and Genomics (CBIAG 2021)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS07-CBIAG2021-Zhao.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS07-CBIAG2021-Zhao.pdf</a>
Organizers:
Shijie Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Tuo Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Lei Du, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Xintao Hu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
WS08: The 5th International Workshop on Emotion Recognition (EMORE 2021)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/EMORE_CFP.htm">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/EMORE_CFP.htm</a>
Organizers:
Valentina Franzoni, Perugia University, Italy
Alfredo Milani, Perugia University, Italy
Giulio Biondi, Florence University, Italy
SS01: Special Session on Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Unveiling the Brain: From the Black-Box to the Glass-Box (XAIB)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/SS01-XAIB2021-Sarica.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/SS01-XAIB2021-Sarica.pdf</a>
Organizer:
Alessia Sarica, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
Day 3 (19 September 2021)
01:30-04:30 UK Time, GMT+01:00
08:30-11:30 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00
WS01: The 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience of Thinking and Reasoning (CNTR 2021)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS01-CNTR2021-Liang.pdf">https://bi2021.org/workshop-special-session/WS01-CNTR2021-Liang.pdf</a>
Organizers:
Peipeng Liang, Capital Normal University, China
Antao Chen, Southwest University, China
*** Parallel Sessions ***
09:00-11:30 UK Time, GMT+01:00
16:00-18:30 Beijing Time, GMT+08:00
Session 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science
Session 2: Human Information Processing Systems
Session 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management
Session 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research
Session 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing
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