<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***<br>==========================================================<div><br></div><div><span id="m_-937910990513647244gmail-docs-internal-guid-04f688c2-7fff-3057-ba83-428e509810b7"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The IEEE SMC</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">15th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">will be held from October 5-8, 2025 in Vienna, Austria as part of SMC 2025 – the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></div><div><span id="m_-937910990513647244gmail-docs-internal-guid-27ecd6c6-7fff-99d4-4b2e-8813da0cf05e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Full/Short Papers and Special Sessions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;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 </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(13,13,13);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">great opportunities for collaborative and multi-disciplinary research, involving peers with expertise in the field of BMI and neurotechnologies, systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">four-day Workshop will feature a series of panels, a <a href="http://BR41N.IO" target="_blank">BR41N.IO</a> brain-computer interface (BCI) hackathon, the ceremony of the BCI Award 2025, prominent invited industry/ academia speakers, a forum for PhD students, and presented contributed papers.</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New this year, we will have a</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b> full (4-6 pages) and a short paper (2-3 pages)</b></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> category that will be peer-reviewed. Papers in each category that are accepted and presented at SMC 2025 will appear on IEEEXplore.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This is the tenth year that the IEEE SMC BMI Workshop will host a </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://BR41N.IO" target="_blank">BR41N.IO</a> Brain-Computer Interface Hackathon </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">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. </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Participation is free to all registered SMC 2025 attendees. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Make sure to submit your BCI project to the BCI Award 2025. You just need a 2-page description of your work and a short video showing your BCI research/project. </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Submission deadline is September 1, 2025</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><u>Deadline for Special Session Proposals</u>: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">February 7, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Notification for Special Session Proposal Acceptance:</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> February 28, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><u>Deadline for Full and Special Session Paper Submission: </u> </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">April 4, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Notification of Full and Special Session Paper Acceptance: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">May 23, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><u>Deadline for Short Paper submissions:</u> </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">April 25, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Notification of Short Paper Acceptance: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">May 30, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper (All Types) Submission: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">June 20, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Early-bird Registration Deadline: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">July 18, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Conference Dates: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">October 5-8, 2025</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Useful Websites</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">BMI Workshop 2025: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2025" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/smc-bmi-workshop2025</a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">BCI Hackathon:</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.br41n.io/IEEE-SMC-2025" target="_blank">https://www.br41n.io/IEEE-SMC-2025</a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">BMI Award 2025: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.bci-award.com" target="_blank">www.bci-award.com</a></span></p></span><br></div></div>
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