Photo: Leen Jabban, Scott Wellington and Ben Metcalfe, at the Kennedy Space Center
Scott Wellington, from cohort 2, has recently returned from Orlando, Florida where he was presenting some research at the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). He writes about his experience:
“It was a fairly intensive, week-long conference, but I’m very pleased that I generated quite a lot of interest in my work, and made a few new exciting connections to follow-up with. I was presenting my new work for the hybridisation of EEG-fMRI data, in collaboration with the Machine Learning group at the Luleå University of Technology.
The conference was quite a broad church: I attended seminars about silent speech interfaces, Siamese networks for brain signal decoding, modelling realistic distortion of synthetic speech, solutions for improved MRI scanning of cadavers, and many others. Lots of photos and memos taken of various research presented to go away and review! I’m also glad to have had some engaging conversations with companies for brain-computer interfaces, so I have a lot to follow up with in the near future.
Thankfully we were able to take some time to make the most of the venue (which was at Disney’s Coronado Springs, a stunningly beautiful location, but a price tag to match; an unfortunately common theme in conversations with other attendees was that of colleague absenteeism due to the expense) and see some of the neighbouring sights around the area, one of which was the Kennedy Space Center!”
