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Fabrice Guibert presents at MEG-UK 2025
Fabrice Guibert presented his latest work on “Multi-scale Brain Dynamics in M/EEG with Time-Delay Embedded Hidden Markov Models” in collaboration with Prof. Daphné Bavelier (UNIGE), Prof. Jeroen Van Schependom and Dr. Chiara Rossi (VUB, Belgium), at the latest edition of MEG-UK 2025.

Florian David presents at IEEE EMBC 2025
Florian David has presented his innovative work that started with a semester project in 2024, supervised by Michael Chan, at the 47th IEEE EMBC 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark, on using deep neural networks for encoding/decoding of fMRI brain activity related to video. The full paper is already available as a preprint. Congrats Florian!

Ekansh Sareen presents at Nestle Research Centre
As part of the EPFL PhD Excellence Program, a group of 21 PhD students among which Ekansh Sareen visited the Nestle Research Centre in Lausanne. Ekansh is part of the 2023 cohort of this program. Ilaria Ricchi, another PhD student in the lab, is part of the 2022 cohort!

Ekansh and Francesca visit NeuroRecovery Research Hub and NeuRa Imaging
On July 4, Ekansh Sareen gave an invited presentation “Corticospinal Interactions: Insights from Neuromodulation, VR-driven Multisensory Integration, and Improved fMRI Mapping” at NeuroRecovery Research Hub led by Professor Sylvia Gustin at the University of New South Wales in Australia.At the same day, Francesca Saviola gave an invited presentation “Hidden highways of the Central Nervous System: (…)

Welcome to Dr. Ayberk Ozkirli!
Dr. Ayberk Ozkirli has joined MIP:Lab on July 1, 2025 and will work on vision neuroscience in collaboration with Dandelion Science Incorporated.

MIP:Lab at OHBM 2025
A large delegation of the MIP:Lab has attended OHBM 2025 at Brisbane, Australia, and presented their latest work! Also, lab members who recently joined, Francesca Saviola and Karolis Degustis presented their previous work:

Maria Giulia Preti at Brain Connectivity Workshop
Maria Giulia presents her latest work, “Bridging Structure and Function in the Brain: Progress and Puzzles,” at the Brain Connectivity Workshop Synergetics on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), June 20-22, 2025.

Luigi Saccaro wins Alex F. Müller Prize for Clinical Pathophysiology
Luigi Saccaro has received the Alex F. Müller Prize for Clinical Pathophysiology for his research on neuroimaging markers of vulnerability to bipolar disorder. Congrats! L. Saccaro, F. Delavari, D. Van De Ville. C. Piguet, “Hippocampal temporal dynamics and spatial heterogeneity unveil vulnerability markers in the offspring of bipolar patients,” Bipolar Disorders, vol. 27, issue 1, (…)

MRI Research Day features spinal cord fMRI combined with TMS
On the MRI Research Day (June 3, 2025), Ekansh Sareen and Rebecca Jones (Hummel Lab) presented their work on “Enhancing NIBS-induced corticospinal excitability and mapping spinal cord fMRI activation“.

Let there be phase
In a recent paper entitled “Hilbert Transform on Graphs: Let There Be Phase” published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Michael Chan proposes a new twist to enable the Hilbert transform for graphs. The scheme provides a promising way to analyze signals on domains that can be characterized by directed graphs. The graph analytical signal reveals (…)

MIP:Lab at ICASSP 2025
Big congrats to the organizers of the ICASSP at Hyderabad, April 6-11, for a successful 50th edition of the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Dimitri Van De Ville gave the invited talk entitled “Brain Networks & Graph Signal Processing: A Perfect Fit” at the Neuro Data Analytics Workshop. See you next year (…)

Welcome to Dr. J. Karolis Degutis!
Dr. J. Karolis Degutis has joined MIP:Lab on March 1, 2025 and will work on ultra-high field MRI (7T) with a focus on exploiting laminar resolution, in particular.

MIP:Lab releases official choreography
Under the motto mens sana in corpore sano, MIP:Lab has released its official choreography 2025! Motor control at its best!

Welcome to Dr. Debajyoti Sengupta!
Dr. Deb(ajyoti) Sengupta has joined MIP:Lab on January 1, 2025 and will work on machine learning applications for vision neuroscience in collaboration with Dandelion Science Incorporated.

Aïda Fall successfully defended her PhD
On January 21, Aïda Fall, PhD student at the UNIGE supervised by Paul Unschuld, Maria Giulia Preti, and Dimitri Van De Ville, successfully defended her PhD on genetic risk and brain functional connectivity in Alzheimer’s disease. The public PhD defense is planned on Monday February 10, 16h, at Campus Biotech. Also see her LinkedIn post.

MIPLAB wishes you a joyful holiday season

Spatiotemporal mosaic of brain states
In a new commentary piece published in Imaging Neuroscience, Dimitri and Raphaël discuss the relevance, challenges, and most promising avenues of dynamic functional connectivity approaches.

Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting 2025 Deadline Approaching!
Registration and abstract deadline for ABIM 2025 is December 1, 2024. Don’t miss this fantastic edition that will take place January 12-16, 2025 in Champéry, Switzerland! Keynote speakers include Charan Ranganath, Federico De Martino, Martin Hebart, Carmen Morawetz, Philip Kragel, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Alex Clarke, Gregor Thut, Michelle Hampson.

Maria Giulia Preti at Statistical Physics of Cognition Workshop
Maria Giulia is presenting her latest work on graph signal processing for quantifying function-structure relationships at the Statistical Physics of Cognition Workshop held on November 25-26, 2024, at the Institute of Physics, London.

CIBM celebrates 20th anniversary!
On November 7, 2024, the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging had its Annual Symposium 2024 that marked its 20th Anniversary. The symposium offered a full day of dynamic discussions, groundbreaking presentations, and interactive sessions, celebrating two decades of excellence and innovation in biomedical imaging. Keynote speakers included Peter Bandettini and Denis Le Bihan.