Workshops
NeurIPS 2025
ARNI's Participation at NeurIPS 2025
Foundation Models for the Brain and Body Workshop
ARNI co-organized the Foundation Models for the Brain and Body workshop at NeurIPS, which attracted over 300 attendees and demonstrated a clear unmet need in the community. The workshop successfully convened researchers and practitioners who are typically siloed by data modality (e.g., EEG, spikes, fMRI, wearables), despite sharing common technical challenges in representation learning, scalability, and deployment.
Throughout the day, and across the talks, poster and demo sessions, the workshop observed cross-disciplinary discussions among groups that otherwise rarely interact, fostering new connections across AI, neuroscience, and industry. A major highlight was the demo session, which featured 15 well-attended demonstrations from leading academic and industry teams, including the Meta EMG wristband, the Kernel Flow neuroimaging headset, an immersive wearable-sensing–driven VR experiment, and ARNI’s own torch_brain ecosystem.
The demos attracted substantial engagement from industry researchers and practitioners and showcased real-world, translational applications of AI and neurotech, reinforcing the practical relevance of this emerging field. With high-profile speakers from academia and industry and strong participation from both sectors, the workshop functioned as a catalyst moment for the field and significantly expanded ARNI’s visibility and reach as a unifying force for the foundation models for brain and body research community.
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