Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Informal International Partners

• We hosted Takeshi Nishida (Kuytech, Japan) for five months and Sozo Inoue (Kuytech, Japan) for one week to prepare a collaboration on neurosciences and robotics. Laurent Bougrain visited Takeshi Nishida, Kiyohisa Natsume and Toshimasa Yamazaki in Kyutech. Asako Watanabe, a master student from Kuytech, will come for 3 weeks in the team in January 2019 to work on EEG markers of a motor task.

• We collaborate with Anton Popov (Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine) on feature extraction of brain signal and deep learning (L. Bougrain). Oleksii Avilov is a Ph.D student under a joint supervision arrangement between Kiev Polytechnic Institute and university of Lorraine.

• We also collaborate with Emel Demircan (Univ South California) to use EMG-informed Computed Muscle Control for dynamic simulations of movement available in OpenSim (https://opensim.stanford.edu/). She stayed 3 weeks in Neurosys this year.

• We also collaborate with LieJune Shiau (university of Houston, Texas, USA) on more theoretical approaches concerning the role of intrinsic neuronal dynamics in network synchronization and brain oscillations (L. Buhry).