José del R. Millán is the Defitech Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he explores the use of brain signals for multimodal interaction and, in particular, the development of non-invasive brain-controlled robots and neuroprostheses. In this multidisciplinary research effort, Dr. Millán is bringing together his pioneering work on the two fields of brain-computer interfaces and adaptive intelligent robotics.
He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) in 1992, where he was an assistant professor for three years. He was also a research scientist at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra (Italy), a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny (Switzerland), and a visiting scholar at the Universities of Stanford and Berkeley as well as at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
His research on brain-computer interfaces was nominated finalist of the European Descartes Prize 2001 and he has been named Research Leader 2004 by the journal Scientific American for his work on brain-controlled robots. The journal Science has reviewed his work as one of the world’s key researchers in the field of brain-computer interfaces. Dr. Millán is the coordinator of a number of European projects on brain-computer interfaces and also is a frequent keynote speaker at international events. His work on brain-computer interfaces has received wide media coverage around the world.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Journals Millán, J. del R., Ferrez, P.W., and Seidl, T. (2009). Validation of Brain-Machine Interfaces during Parabolic Flight. International Review of Neurobiology, 86: to appear. Special issue on “Brain Machine Interfaces for Space Applications: Enhancing Astronaut Capabilities”.
Garipelli, G., Chavarriaga, R., and Millán, J. del R. (2009). Fast Recognition of Anticipation Related Potentials. IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 56:1257–1260.
Menon, C., de Negueruela, C., Millán, J. del R., et al. (2009). Prospects of Brain–Machine Interfaces for Space System Control. Acta Astronautica, 64:448–456.
Millán, J. del R. (2008). Brain-Controlled Robots. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23:74–76.
Galán, F., Nuttin, M., Lew, E., Ferrez, P.W., Vanacker, G., Philips, J., and Millán, J. del R. (2008). A Brain-Actuated Wheelchair: Asynchronous and Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces for Continuous Control of Robots. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119:2159–2169.
Bourdaud, N., Chavarriaga, R., Galán, F., and Millán, J. del R. (2008). Characterizing the EEG Correlates of Exploratory Behavior. IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 16:549–556.
Millán, J. del R., Ferrez, P.W., Galán, F., Lew, E., and Chavarriaga, R. (2008). Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interaction. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 22:959–972.
Ferrez, P.W. and Millán, J. del R. (2008). Error-Related EEG Potentials Generated during Simulated Brain-Computer Interaction. IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 55:923–929.
Marcel, S. and Millán, J. del R. (2007). Person Authentication using Brainwaves (EEG) and Maximum A Posteriori Model Adaptation. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29:743–748.
Cincotti, F., Kauhanen, L., Aloise, F., Palomäki, T., Caporusso, N., Jylänki, P., Mattia, D., Babiloni, F., Vanacker, G., Nuttin, M., Marciani, M.G., and Millán, J. del R. (2007). Vibrotactile Feedback for Brain-Computer Interface Operation. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2007, Article ID 48937, 12 pages.
Buttfield, A., Ferrez, P.W., and Millán, J. del R. (2006). Towards a Robust BCI: Error Recognition and Online Learning. IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 14:164–168.
Millán, J. del R., Renkens, F., Mouriño, J., and Gerstner, W. (2004). Brain-Actuated Interaction. Artificial Intelligence, 159:241–259.
Millán, J. del R., Renkens, F., Mouriño, J., and Gerstner, W. (2004). Non-Invasive Brain-Actuated Control of a Mobile Robot by Human EEG. IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 51:1026–1033.
Millán, J. del R. (2003). Adaptive Brain Interfaces. Communications of the ACM, 46:74–80.
Millán, J. del R., Franzé, M., Mouriño, J., Cincotti, F., and Babiloni, F. (2002). Relevant EEG Features for the Classification of Spontaneous Motor-Related Tasks. Biological Cybernetics, 86:89–95.
Millán, J. del R., Mouriño, J., Franzé, M., Cincotti, F., Varsta, M., Heikkonen, J., and Babiloni, F. (2002). A Local Neural Classifier for the Recognition of EEG Patterns Associated to Mental Tasks. IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 13:678–686.
Conferences Millán, J. del R., Galán, F., Vanhooydonck, D., Lew, E., Philips, J., and Nuttin, M., (2009). Asynchronous Non-Invasive Brain-Actuated Control of an Intelligent Wheelchair. 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Garipelli, G., Chavarriaga, R., Cincotti, F., Babiloni, F., and Millán, J. del R. (2009). Discriminative Channel Selection Method for the Recognition of Anticipation Related Potentials from CCD Estimated Cortical Activity. 2009 IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Workshop. Outstanding contribution.
Garipelli, G., Chavarriaga, R., and Millán, J. del R. (2009). Anticipation based Brain-Computer Interfacing (aBCI). 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering.
Demeester, E., Millán, J. del R., and Van Brussel, H. (2009). Bayesian Plan Recognition for Brain-Computer Interfaces. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Ferrez, P.W. and Millán, J. del R. (2008). Simultaneous Real-Time Detection of Motor Imagery and Error-Related Potentials for Improved BCI Accuracy. 4th International Brain-Computer Interface Workshop.
Galán, F., Nuttin, M., Vanhooydonck, D., Lew, E., Ferrez, P.W., Philips, J., and Millán, J. del R. (2008). Continuous Brain-Actuated Control of an Intelligent Wheelchair by Human EEG. 4th International Brain-Computer Interface Workshop.
Chavarriaga, R., Galán, F., and Millán, J. del R. (2008). Asynchronous Detection and Classification of Oscillatory Brain Activity. 16th European Signal Processing Conference.
Perrin, X., Chavarriaga, R., Ray, C., Siegwart, R., and Millán, J.del R. (2008). A Comparative Psychophysical and EEG Study of Different Feedback Modalities for HRI. 3rd ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction.
Ferrez, P.W. and Millán, J.del R. (2007). EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interaction: Improved Accuracy by Automatic Single-Trial Error Detection. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 20.
Chavarriaga, R., Ferrez, P.W., and Millán, J.del R. (2007). To Err is Human: Learning from Error Potentials in Brain-Computer Interfaces. 1st Int. Conf. on Cognitive Neurodynamics.
Galán, F., Palix, J., Chavarriaga, R., Ferrez, P.W., Lew, E., Hauert, C.A., and Millán, J.del R. (2007). Visuo-Spatial Attention Frame Recognition for Brain-Computer Interfaces. 1st Int. Conf. on Cognitive Neurodynamics.
Galán, F., Ferrez, P.W., Oliva, F, Guàrdia, J., and Millán, J.del R. (2007). Feature Extraction for Multi-class BCI using Canonical Variates Analysis. IEEE Int. Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing.
Philips, J., Millán, J. del R., Vanacker, G., Lew, E., Galán, F., Ferrez, P.W., Van Brussel, H., and Nuttin, M. (2007). Adaptive Shared Control of a Brain-Actuated Simulated Wheelchair. 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics.
Broschart, M., de Negueruela, C., Millán, J. del R., and Menon, C. (2007). Augmenting Astronaut’s Capabilities through Brain-Machine Interfaces. 20th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications”.
Millán, J. del R. (2004). On the Need for On-line Learning in Brain-Computer Interfaces. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
Millán, J. del R., Mouriño, J., Babiloni, F., Cincotti, F., Varsta, M., and Heikkonen, J. (2000). Local Neural Classifier for EEG-based Recognition of Mental Tasks. IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Outstanding contribution.
Books Dornhege, G., Millán, J. del R., Hinterberger, T., McFarland, D.J., and Müller, K.-R. (eds.) (2007). Towards Brain-Computing Interfacing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-04244-4.
Millán, J. del R. (2002). Brain-Computer Interfaces. In M.A. Arbib (ed.), The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd edition, pp. 178–181. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-01197-2.
Millán, J. del R. (2002). Robot Navigation. In M.A. Arbib (ed.), The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd edition, pp. 987–990. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-01197-2.
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