Oct 2023: Best Poster Award, IEEE BSN 2023. [Info] [Certificate]
Apr 2022: Study UK Alumni Award - Business Innovation Finalist, British Council. [Info] [Press release]
Jun 2021: Best Poster Award, Virtual BCI Meeting 2021. [Certificate]
Feb 2021: Student Award, 8th International BCI Meeting (Virtual BCI Meeting 2021). [Info]
Oct 2020: Abstract Award, 2nd Annual Computational Data Neuroscience Symposium. [Info]
Sep 2020: NetSci 2020 Fellowship, free registration to NetSci 2020 virtual conference.
Jan 2020: Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar Award ($18,000), together with Dr. Kristina Simonyan, from Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to organize a seminar to explore the use of Brain-Computer Interfaces for transforming dystonia treatment, held virtually on 10-11 September 2020. [Info]
Aug 2019: HBI Host-a-Scholar Award ($4,000) from Harvard Brain Science Initiative to host Prof. Richard Reilly (TCD) in Boston and work together on the development of novel BCIs. [Info]
Jun 2019: OHBM People's Choice Abstract Award, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting. [Info]
Jun 2017: University of Essex convertible loan (£15,000) awarded to EyeWink to sponsor the development of the wearable device.
Oct 2016: Bronze medal in the BCI race of the Cybathlon 2016 with the team The Brainstormers. [Info]
May 2016: Winner of the IET Present Around The World (PATW) local network competition. [Info]
Dec 2015: EyeWink Crowdfunding campaign (£4,605) for supporting the development of EyeWink, a wearable device that allows users to control their smartphones with eye winks and blinks. [Campaign]
Dec 2015: BrainStormers Crowdfunding campaign (£3,016) for supporting the participation of the whole Essex team to the Cybathlon, an international championship for athletes with disabilities assisted by technology (including BCI). [Campaign]
Apr 2015: Best Paper Award, 7th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference. [Picture]
Mar 2015: London Science Museum Award, HackTheBrain UK. [Article] [i++] [UoE Blog]
Oct 2013: Best Paper Award, 4th International Conference on Robotics in Education.
Sep 2012: Member of the Winning Team, Sick Robot Day 2012. [Video]
25 April 2022: Real Life Cyborg - Robot Hand & Optimized Brainwaves (episode of Suppressed Science, Curiosity Stream)
23 October 2020: Fast and Accurate Diagnosis of Dystonia with Deep Learning (Harvard Brain Science Initiative)
28 September 2020: Focal Dystonia Accurately Identified by AI-Based Deep Learning Platform (Neurology Live) - Interview: Part 1, Part 2, Video
28 September 2020: New Artificial Intelligence Platform Uses Deep Learning to Diagnose Dystonia with High Accuracy in Less Than One Second (Massachusetts Eye and Ear News)
22 April 2020: Covid-19 is showing us how to respect our beautiful planet (Nature Behavioural and Social Sciences)
12 March 2020: Why computers won't be reading your mind any time soon (Wired)
10 October 2019: Tailoring our CAPES for a successful career in science (Nature Behavioural and Social Sciences) - with Dr. Elena Torlai Triglia and Dr. Eleonora Adami
1 October 2019: Should you upgrade your brain? (BBC Science Focus) - PDF
11 March 2019: Humans and machines can improve accuracy when they work together (The Conversation)
8 March 2019: 'Cyborg working' can improve decision making (University of Essex News)
4 December 2018: Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man (Vision Films) - Video
27 November 2018: Automatic Diagnosis of Speech Disorders with Machine Learning Algorithms (interview at Amazon Web Services re:invent)
5 February 2018: 'Mind-reading' computers could enhance human brain and help police, surgeons and City traders (Sky News) - Video
1 January 2018: Neurotechnology, Elon Musk and the goal of human enhancement (The Guardian)
6 October 2017: Sometimes one head is better than two when it comes to decisions - here's the science (The Conversation)
27 September 2017: BBC Essex interview on our recent findings published in Scientific Reports
26 September 2017: Why two minds might not be better than one after all (University of Essex News)
24 August 2017: Seven businesses awarded grants through the Knowledge Gateway Innovation Fund (University of Essex News)
31 March 2017: Elon Musk wants to merge man and machine - here's what he'll need to work out (The Conversation) - republished by the Daily Mail and the Independent
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021: Innovation Discovery Grant funded by Mass General Brigham ($100,000) to Kristina Simonyan (PI) and Davide Valeriani (Co-I) for a project entitled A Clinically Applicable AI Toolbox for Dystonia Diagnosis. More info on the MGB press release.
Sep 2018 - Aug 2021: Research Grant from the Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI), funded jointly by the US Department of Defense (DoD, $3 millions) and the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD, £1.5 millions), for a project entitled Adaptive joint cognitive systems for complex and strategic decision making: building trust in human-machine teams through brain-computer-interface augmentation, social interaction and mutual learning. The bilateral team is composed by Maryam Shanechi (PI), Michael Jordan, Farid Hamzei-Sichani, Kristina Simonyan, Davide Valeriani, Riccardo Poli (PI), Luca Citi, Caterina Cinel, and Nicholas Yeung. More info on the DoD press release.
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019: Research Grant from DSTL through DHCSTC (approx. £390,000) to Riccardo Poli (PI), Caterina Cinel (Co-I), Davide Valeriani (Co-I) and Luca Citi (Co-I) for a project entitled Brain-computer-interface-assisted confidence estimation for group decision making, group selection and personnel training.
May 2015 - Jul 2015: Research Innovation Fund (RIF) Grant (£4,990 - code DC10758) for supporting the participation of the Essex team to the Cybathlon.