BMI Workshop
The IEEE SMC 16th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems will be held October 4-7, 2026 in Bellevue, WA, USA as part of SMC 2026, the flagship international annual conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, which holds a CORE RANK B status. The IEEE SMC conference is a well-respected, rigorously peer-reviewed fully indexed publishing venue (via IEEE Xplore and submission to Scopus/Ei Compendex). The BMI workshop adds value through the review process organized by field experts from both academia and industry, and all accepted papers are published as regular SMC papers with identical indexing, visibility, and regular IEEE SMC registration conditions. This workshop serves as a valuable forum for scientists to present their research findings and foster interaction and intellectual exchange among researchers and users of BMI technology. Participation is free to all registered SMC 2026 attendees.
CALL FOR PAPERS and SPECIAL SESSIONS
We are planning for IEEE SMC BMI 2026 to be a fully in-person event. Having this said, we are aware that some individuals will have difficulty obtaining visas to attend the conference in person. Please do not let this deter you from submitting your work. Depending on the number of accepted papers from certain countries, we will consider organizing satellite BMI Workshop events in different parts of the world to ensure you can still have a nice local in-person experience.
We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in all fields related to BMI, including new neuroimaging modalities and sensor technologies, interfaces, protocols, signal enhancement and multimodal fusion, integration of BMIs with virtual/augmented reality, affective BMI, hybrid BMI, deep learning for BMI, neurorehabilitation, serious gaming, and emerging applications. These topics offer tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multi-disciplinary research, involving not only peers with expertise in the field of BMI and other neurotechnologies and those with expertise in systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
Full papers (Regular or Special Session) should describe advanced research and report original findings. Papers are typically between 4-6 pages. Short papers (with a slightly later submission deadline) should describe preliminary research outcomes and report original findings. Short papers are typically between 2-3 pages. Both paper categories, with a maximum of 2 overlength pages (including the paper title, authors and affiliations, figures, and references), for an extra fee, should be concise but contain sufficient details and references to allow for a critical review. Papers will be reviewed (single-blinded) by at least two referees for technical merit and content. Accepted and presented papers will appear in IEEE Xplore as part of SMC 2026.
The four-day BMI Workshop will feature a series of panels, a BR41N.IO BCI designers’ hackathon, the ceremony of the BCI Award 2025, prominent invited industry/academia speakers, and presented contributed papers.