Dr. Milham, is the founding director of the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute. His research interests include investigating how functional and structural connectivity in the brain may underlie differing forms of mental illness, and seeking to chart the course of brain development in healthy and affected children. He has significantly advanced a Big Data research agenda in the neuroimaging community including the Healthy Brain Network – an initiative aiming to create a large-scale (10,000 participants) resource for the scientific community to study child and adolescent mental health including EEG and other modalities of data.

Professor Valdes-Sosa is Co-PI of the Global Brain Consortium, Director of the Joint China-Cuba Laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China, co-founder of the Cuban Neuroscience Center in 1990, Senior Professor of Medicine in Havana, Member Emeritus of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the OHBM. Pioneering software for the first Cuban microcomputer (1970), he co-authored the Neurometrics paper (Science 1977), developed MEG/EEG Tomography, and its introduction into the Cuban health system. He has published large open normative datasets in neuroimaging including a platform for EEG-ECoG comparisons and the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project.

Dr. Makeig is a pioneer in the analysis and modeling of human cognitive event-related dynamics captured by high-dimensional EEG, MEG and ECoG. He has developed numerous analytical approaches and is the co-originator of the widely used EEGLAB signal processing environment for MATLAB. Combining EEG with eye tracking and body motion capture he has also pioneered the field of mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI).

Dr. Christoph Guger is co-founder of g.tec medical engineering in Austria, which has been developing high-performance brain-computer interfaces and neurotechnologies for invasive and non-invasive recordings since 1999. Dr. Guger oversees the global distribution and utilization of g.tec’s products in clinical environments for research purposes such as brain assessments of severe brain injuries and disorders of consciousness, motor rehabilitation after stroke, neuromarketing, deep brain stimulation, brain mapping, neuroprosthesis control, communication, painting and closed-loop invasive and non-invasive BCI experiments.

Dr. Shestyuk is the Head of Science and Research for BASES-Neuro, NielsenIQ. She joined the Nielsen Company in 2011 after completing her Ph.D in Psychology at Harvard University and post-doctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Shestyuk has received numerous research and teaching awards from Harvard University and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct her research at UC Berkeley. In her academic work, Dr. Shestyuk has used EEG, skin conductance, heart rate, fMRI, and intracranial brain recordings to examine how the brain processes salient (i.e., task-relevant, emotional, or stressful) information. This research has resulted in a number of high-profile publications.

Arno Klein is the Director of the MATTER Lab at the Child Mind Institute, which builds sensor-based wearable devices and software tools for mobile, remote data collection and mental health interventions. He is a passionate proponent of open science and has developed numerous technologies, including the Mindboggle open source software for automated brain feature extraction, labeling, and shape analysis, and the MindLogger platform for creating, sharing, and administering mobile and web applications for mental health assessments, cognitive tasks, and therapies.

Dr. Ed Lalor heads the Computational Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab at the University of Rochester. Research in his lab explores quantitative modelling approaches to the analysis of sensory electrophysiology in humans focused on examination of the neural processing of natural stimuli such as speech, music and video. In addition, he is interested in how the brain integrates visual and auditory information when processing natural speech and sensory processing in patients with schizophrenia and in children with developmental disorder.

Dr. Guillaume Dumas is the IVADO Assistant Professor in Computational Psychiatry of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montreal and the Director of the Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology laboratory in the CHU Sainte-Justine research center. His research explores inter-brain synchronization and social cognition. He is also one of the seven FRQS J1 researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health, affiliated to the Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and an affiliate member of the Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory, in the Center for Complex Systems and Brains Sciences of Florida Atlantic University.

Dr. Julia Kam is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychology and full member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary. She studies the neurophysiological basis of internal attention commonly known as mind wandering, using both scalp EEG and intracranial EEG. Her work has revealed EEG markers of different types of mind wandering, which she hopes will ultimately drive the development of tools that optimize attentional control with applications in real-world contexts and clinical populations.