<div dir="ltr"> *** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***<br>==========================================================<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>******************************************************************<br>IEEE SMC Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems<div>October 6-9, 2024<br>Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2024">https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2024 </a></div><div>Full and Special Session Papers Submission Deadline: <b>April 8, 2024</b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2024"><br></a>******************************************************************</div><div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">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. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Full papers (Regular or Special Session)</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> should describe advanced research and report original findings. Papers are typically between 4-6 pages. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Abstract submissions (1-page)</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> will also be allowed. Abstracts </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">describe works-in-progress and late breaking BMI research findings not yet in a mature state for a full paper. Note that abstracts </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">will not appear</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> in IEEE Xplore (but will be listed on the Workshop website) and will be presented as posters at the Workshop. Full registrations are needed to cover an abstract presentation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmai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</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Please refer to <b>deadlines </b></span><a class="gmail-XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2024/dates?authuser=0" style="color:inherit;font-family:Roboto;font-variant-ligatures:none;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc gmail-aw5Odc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><b>here</b></span></a><font color="#000000" face="Arial"> </font></p></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">Sincerely,</font><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Xiang Zhang, Ph.D. </span><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Assistant Professor | </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Computer Science</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">University of North Carolina at Charlotte</font><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="mailto:xiang.zhang@uncc.edu" target="_blank">xiang.zhang@uncc.edu</a> | <a href="mailto:xiang.alan.zhang@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiang.alan.zhang@gmail.com</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="http://www.xiangzhang.info/" target="_blank">http://www.xiangzhang.info</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>