Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) enhances the capability of a human brain in communicating and interacting with the environment directly. BCI plays an important role in natural cognition, which is to study the brain and behavior at work. Human cognitive functions such as action planning, intention, preference, perception, attention, situational awareness, and decision-making are omnipresent in our daily life activities. BCI has been considered as the disruptive technology for the next-generation natural interface in human-machine teaming. There are many potential real-life impacts of BCI technology in daily life applications for augmenting human performance and accelerate learning. In addition to introducing advanced BCI technology, this presentation will also demonstrate real-life BCI application cases including brain-robot interface and human-robot teaming.

Learning outcomes 

• The fundamental BCI technology from sensors, signal processing, to system design.
• The general applications of BCI technology.
• The real-life BCI applications based on some case studies about augmenting human capability and accelerated learning.

About the presenter

Professor Chin-Teng Lin
Distinguish Professor

Chin-Teng (CT) Lin received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from US Purdue University, in 1992. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Director of Human centric AI (HAI) Centre of UTS. Prof. Lin’s research focuses on AI and brain computer interface, including algorithm development and system design. He has published over 400 journal papers (H-Index 88 based on Google Scholar) and is the co-author of Neural Fuzzy Systems (Prentice-Hall). He has been granted over 100 patents, including 8 US patents on AI and BCI. Dr. Lin served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems from 2011 to 2016. He is the Chair of the 2022 CIS Awards Committee. Dr. Lin is an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Fuzzy Pioneer Award in 2017. Since joined UTS in 2016 from Taiwan, Dr. Lin had been granted 5 ARC Discovery projects, 2 NHRMC projects, 1 CRC-P project, and 2 Defence innovation Hub projects. He has also attracted quite a lot of industry funding, including a large-scale funding for establishing an industry supported research centre, HAI Centre, in UTS.