Passionate of responsible development and social implications of technology, I have more than 12 years of experience in brain-machine interaction, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. My work is focused on the conception of neurotechnologies that allow symbiotic interaction between human and intelligent machines. This is based on better understanding of neural correlates of cognition, development of artificial intelligent devices capable to adapt to their user's goals, preferences and capabilities, and a user-centered design approach.

Highly interested on the translation of emerging technologies onto applications at service of society, I am the head of the Switzerland Office of the CLAIRE Initiative for excellence in AI. I am also chair of the IEEE group on standards for brain-machine interfacing and executive-in-residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. I am the editor of the IEEE Brain eNewsletter and I am actively involved in outreach activities for the general public on topics related to emerging emerging technologies and their societal impact.

I have a degree on Electronics Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) In Switzerland.

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News: The CLAIRE network has set up a website to compile existing initiatives (projects, funding calls, hackathons, open datasets or tools, etc) by which AI and emerging technologies are contributing to combat COVID19. You can find the website here

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Upcoming Talks and Events

• June 25th-26th 2020: Workshop Global Perspectives on Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Freiburg, Germany. Invited panelist
• July 15th 2020: IEEE COMPSAC , Digital Conference. Invited speaker
• Sep 4th, 2020: SIDO event, Lyon, France. Plenary speaker
• Sept 7h-9th 2020 1st IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, Rome, Italy. Invited speaker
• Nov 10th, 2020: DEFTECH DAYS - Human-machine interface & Interaction, Thun, Switzerland. Invited speaker

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Latest Publications

• Orset et al. User adaptation to closed-loop decoding of motor imagery termination. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, In press
• Aydarkhanov et al. A Spatial covariance improves BCI performance for late ERPs components with high temporal variability. J Neur Engineering, In Press
• Standards Roadmap: Neurotechnologies for Brain-Machine Interfacing, IEEE Standards Association. February 2020
• Lotte et al. Turning negative into positives! Exploiting "negative" results in Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) research. Brain-Computer Interfaces. 2019. [Public version at HAL repository]

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People I have worked with