List of hackathons in Goleta, United States in 2020

Abstract The IEEE Brain Initiative has sponsored hackathons, challenges and competitions in a manner of quick exploration about brain computer interface and brain data bank, also employing neural network modeling and deep learning in the realm of artificial intelligence, multi-modal physiological signal interactions, games to improve multi-tasking performance, epilepsy detection in mobile devices, all contributing to consumer usage of neuroscience/technology. This presentation will summarize the results since 2016. Brain data bank analytics and tools simplification were at its infancy when the Brain Initiative (BI) group was established within IEEE in the late 2015. It was challenging to decode the brain, therefore the IEEE initiated brain hackathons and challenges to educate, with hands-on experiments, to test the state-of-the-art, and to encourage quick innovations to reach the market. Numerous possibilities surfaced with the advent of affordable EEG headsets, virtual reality manifestation, open-source EEG datasets, and controlled experiments observing multi-mode physiological signal interactions. A series of competition events under the auspices of IEEE Brain Initiative have been held at universities and IEEE technical conferences around the world, as listed below: •       2016              Brain Computer Interface Hackathons in San Diego, Philadelphia, and Budapest. •       2017-2019    Brain Data Bank Challenges and Competitions globally including Los Angeles. Students, faculty and entrepreneurs from multiple disciplines other than neuroscience participated in these events. These activities have been catalogued with event photos in the Brain Initiative website and other websites including the IEEE Dataport which posted source brain datasets for the competition’s use. Several technical papers were published as extension of projects out of the competition in Journals and Proceedings of Consumer Electronics Society, Engineering in Medicine & Biology (EMB) Society, Sensors Council, and Machine Learning EEG Signal Processing Workshop. Some future directions for brain research/technology evolution are reflected in terms of fast prototyping. Speaker’s Bio:             Dr. N. Nan Chu (朱 南 玉) worked in AT&T Bell Labs, Rockwell International, Tellabs International, Comcast/Motorola/Verizon and Thomson Multimedia before 2019. She retired from the industry as an Executive Program Manager responsible for a $500M product line of Digital Set Top Box manufacturing and deployment. Her technical contributions have grown along the transformation from digital voice and Internet data to digital video distribution and processing where she engineered the first digital STB standard, encryption, conditional access, digital rights management schemes, Intellectual Property protection, as well as content processing and user interface. While primarily engaged with the telecom and consumer electronics industry, Dr. Chu has forged collaboration with the academia by corporate grant management and adjunct teaching in University of Illinois-Chicago, Widener University, California Lutheran University, DeVry University Keller School of Management, and National Central University. She was the Director of Research & Services at California State University – Northridge. She has started two companies and currently running the outfit of CWLab International among other entrepreneurial activities in Chicago, Southern California, Taiwan, and Russia. She has published more than 60 papers in areas related to digital communication/networking technologies and edited two books. She has been credited as the co-author of Digital Set-top Box Standards in the national SCTE and international CCITT Study Group 9, receiving Corporate awards for the early digital cable conversion standardization. Her interests in research and product development continue to evolve along social networking, cloud computing, data security, Internet connectivity to eHealthcare, with the latest global involvement in brain communication. Dr. Chu has volunteered in IEEE professional services since the 1980’s and she is a Life Senior Member, having served on Board of Governors in Consumer Electronics Society, RFID, and Sensors Council. She executed General and/or Industry Chair duties for AAEA, BICS, GLOBECOM, IGIC, SPCN, and many hi-tech international conferences and symposiums. For the last 4 years, she has been the Founding Chair of the IEEE Brain Initiative Brain Data Bank Competitions and a pioneer in Brain Computer Interface Hackathons. Her humble education background includes a B.S. from National Tsing Hua University, M.S. from Iowa State University, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University majored in Nuclear Engineering, in 1972, 1973, and 1977, respectively. Her career in the nuclear industry was short-lived by 1978.  Her R&D career in Communications, Networking Systems and eHealth Consumer Electronics has continued for more than 40 years to explore multi-disciplinary knowledge and contribution in technology till today. Dinner is served at 6:00pm and the presentation at 7:00.  Dinner is $12/person, drinks are free. Questions:  Contact Bob Rumer, bobrumer@verizon.net, 805-377-8369 PLEASE JOIN US!!!