NSF AI Institute for
Artificial and Natural Intelligence
NeurIPS 2025
Foundation Models for the Brain and Body Workshop
December 2nd to December 7th
San Deigo, California
ARNI, in collaboration with Columbia University, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, MILA, the Donders Institute, and Meta, is organizing the "Foundation Models for the Brain and Body" workshop at NeurIPS 2025. The workshop was selected as one of 55 chosen from a pool of 287 submissions.
The workshop brings together researchers at the interface of biosignals and machine learning. We invite submissions of short papers on novel research in neuroscience, biosignal analysis, and machine learning, with a focus on foundation models and representation learning for neural, physiological and behavioral data. We also invite interactive demo proposals that showcase novel methods, devices, or applications.
Important Dates
Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025 (AoE) on OpenReview
Author Notification: September 22, 2025 (AoE)
Workshop Date: 12/2 to 12/7 2025
We also have a great lineup of keynote speakers:
- Hubert Banville, Meta
- Juan Helen Zhou, National University of Singapore
- Cuntai Guan, Nanyang Technological University
- Guillermo Sapiro, Apple, Princeton University
- Eva Dyer, University of Pennsylvania
For more details, check out our website: https://brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io/
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The NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI) connects a decade of progress in AI to the revolution in our understanding of the brain. ARNI meets the urgent need for new paradigms of interdisciplinary research between neuroscience and AI. We pursue both theoretical and use-inspired work that will accelerate progress in both fields, and broaden their transformative impact on society in the next decade.
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