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SUMMARY:A Window on the Brain: Computational Neuroimaging to Explore and S
 hape Human Brain Activity
DTSTART:20160707T171500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dimitri Van de Ville\, Institute of Bioengineering\, EPF
 L\nINAUGURAL LECTUREAbstract:\nObserving and analyzing human brain functio
 n is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor combining engineering\, neuroscien
 ces\, and medicine. State-of-the-art technologies such as functional magne
 tic resonance imaging (fMRI) allow to non-invasively  acquire a sequence 
 of whole-brain snapshots that indirectly measure neuronal activity. Howeve
 r\, these datasets are large and reflect the complex structure of human br
 ain activity.\nBy developing and applying  advanced  computational techn
 iques  that combine signal processing\, network modeling\, and dynamical 
 systems\, we are able to decipher the important role of spontaneous activi
 ty and how it characterizes human personality and cognition\, as well as h
 ow it can be used to extract powerful markers of neurological disease and 
 disorder\, contributing to the emerging field of precision medicine.\nIn a
 ddition\, better understanding of brain networks opens new avenues for  i
 mproved neurostimulation using invasive and non-invasive methods. For inst
 ance\, in "soft neuroprosthetics" based on real-time fMRI neurofeedback\, 
 subjects are put at the center of the experiment as they learn to self-reg
 ulate and therefore shape their brain activity in specific regions or netw
 orks.Program:\n- Introduction by Prof. Michael Unser\, Director of the Bio
 medical Imaging Group\n- Inaugural lecture of Prof. Dimitri Van De Ville\,
  "A Window on the Brain: Computational Neuroimaging to Explore and Shape H
 uman Brain Activity"\nPlease register here : http://go.epfl.ch/vandevilleB
 io:\nProf. Van De Ville received his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering
  from University of Ghent\, Belgium\, in 2002. He then continued his scien
 tific career at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in t
 he laboratory of Prof. Michael Unser. In 2005\, he became junior group lea
 der of the Signal Processing Core of the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CI
 BM) at the University of Geneva (UniGE). In 2009\, his activities led to a
  tenuretrack assistant professorship at the EPFL and UniGE financed by the
  Swiss National Science Foundation.\nHis laboratory specializes in data sc
 ience for understanding human brain function and dysfunction based on neur
 oimaging.  He was the recipient of the Pfizer Award (2012)\, NeuroImage E
 ditors¹ Choice Award (2013)\, NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (2014
 )\, and Leenaards Award (2016). In 2015\, Dr. Van De Ville was promoted to
  Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the EPFL\, jointly affiliated wi
 th the UniGE. His laboratory is located at the Campus Biotech in Geneva an
 d is part of the Institute for Bioengineering and the Center for Neuropros
 thetics.
LOCATION:SG 1138 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201138
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