At Connected Minds, we celebrate Dr. Judy Illes, Chair of our External Advisory Board, promoted to Officer of the Order of Canada. This honour recognizes her leadership in biomedical ethics, neuroscience, and centering Indigenous perspectives in medicine. We're incredibly proud!

www-nature-com.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/s41... Dr. Greg van Anders Nature Communication paper on "Sufficient is better than optimal for training neural networks."

Presented at ISB 2025 with Dr. Qingguo Li’s team: research on spinal loading in healthcare staff during fluoroscopic procedures, and new findings on wearable vibrotactile feedback to reduce WMSDs in fine motor tasks. www.bmrlab.ca

So excited to share that our PI Dr. Pereira @queensuresearch.bsky.social was just at the Science Meets Parliament 2025! @connectedminds.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sonja Bonar on presenting her work at the Innovations in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Future Trends Conference. More information on this work can be found at davies-bdat.weebly.com Sonja also successfully completed her internship with at vibraint.ai

A Meeting of the Minds! Some of our incredible Queen's Connected Minds trainees gather for some information sharing. We are so fortunate to have such talent amongst us. 🧠

New work by Emily Oby et al. in Nature Neuroscience demonstrates that neural population activity in motor cortex follows fixed dynamical constraints: monkeys could not volitionally reorder or reverse latent trajectories during BCI control. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Ethical Considerations Microcredential Course has launched! Learners will apply a bioethics lens to evaluate neurotechnologies across various sectors. neurotechmicrocreds.com/courses/neur...

Connected Minds Trainee, Eric Godden with a paper and presentation on "Characterization of Markerless Hand-Tracking on Meta Quest Pro and Quest 3 Virtual Reality Headsets" www.computer.org/csdl/journal...

A G1 Humanoid has arrived! Ingenuity Labs at Queen's University welcomes a new robot to their fleet. This new member will help facilitate collaborative high impact research initiatives and will help secure significant sources of funding! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr6G...

Congratulations to Sebastian D'Amario, Connected Minds PhD Award recipient on his recent publication in the Journal of Sport Science on "Impact Biomechanics Reveal Positional and Session Type Differences in Canadian Collegiate Football." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

AI promises progress, but who gets left behind? Dr. Christo El Morr has co-authored a timely new book that takes on this urgent question. AI and Disability Justice challenges the idea of AI as a neutral tool of progress. 📘 Learn more about the book: lnkd.in/gnq9Z7_S

drive.google.com/file/d/1Il0_... Connected Minds Masters Award recipient, Tiana Wertelecky presented her work from the Neuromechanics Lab at Queen's University at the Ontario Biomechanics Conference at Ontario Tech. Keep up the great work!

Hats off to Kate Moses, Masters Award Recipient from the Sensorimotor Exploration Lab neuromech.notion.site/Sensorimotor... Kate has been busy presenting her work on "The Influence of Experience on the Sensory Contributions Needed for Piano Learning" at numerous scientific conferences.

We’re proud to welcome Inès Arous to Connected Minds. With a focus on human-centered natural language processing and explainable AI, Ines is helping shape the future of trustworthy, socially responsible technologies.

Grateful for last week’s unforgettable Neuroscience Leadership Training—insightful discussions on team management, AI tools, and advancing science. Huge thanks to Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Kording, the mentors, and the inspiring Neuro4Pro cohort!

We’re excited to welcome Danica Pawlick-Potts to Connected Minds as one of our newest Research-Enhanced Hires. www.yorku.ca/research/con...

Connected Minds 2025 Conference - Spotlight Session: Technologies for Remote Health and Embodiment 📅 October 6–8 | 📍York University, Toronto Early bird registration is open until August 24th: lnkd.in/gmefWbTU Abstract submissions is open until September 5th: lnkd.in/gFDXggs5

Connected Minds 2025 Conference - Spotlight Session: Mobility and Accessibility. 📅 October 6–8 | 📍York University, Toronto Early bird registration is open until August 10th: lnkd.in/gmefWbTU Abstract submissions now being accepted: lnkd.in/gFDXggs5

Connected Minds 2025 Conference - Spotlight Session: Brain-Computer Interface and Society 📅 October 6–8 | 📍York University, Toronto Early bird registration is open until August 10th: lnkd.in/gmefWbTU Abstract submissions now being accepted: lnkd.in/gFDXggs5

Connected Minds 2025 Conference - Spotlight Session: Social Robots in Health 📅 October 6–8 | 📍York University, Toronto Early bird registration is open until August 24th: lnkd.in/gmefWbTU Abstract submissions is open until September 5th: lnkd.in/gFDXggs5

Connected Minds 2025 Conference - Spotlight Session: Mobility and Accessibility 📅 October 6–8 | 📍York University, Toronto Early bird registration is open until August 10th: lnkd.in/gmefWbTU Abstract submissions now being accepted: lnkd.in/gFDXggs5

Congratulations to Dr. Alvine Boaye Belle, Ph.D. and Dr. Adeyemi Olusola, PhD on receiving York’s Black Research Seed Fund. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

Congratulations to Connected Minds members Dr. Jagdeep Walia, Dr. Karen Yeates, and Dr. Catherine Donnelly on earning major funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)supporting advances in patient care, health equity, and therapeutic innovation. www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

At Canada AI Day 2025, Connected Minds joined leaders in academia, industry, and policy to explore how we can make AI more transparent, equitable, and human-centered. To read more check the link: www.yorku.ca/research/con...

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Marshall, professor at Queen's University, for being named one of CIM Magazine’s 2025 Names to Know! To read full article check the link: magazine.cim.org/en/voices/nt...

Congratulations to Amir Eskandari on his newly published paper at IEEE COMPSAC 2025! Read the paper here: ameskandari.github.io/sda-grin/

(1/6) Early Bird Registration is Now Open! Join us in Toronto for the Connected Minds Conference 2025 from October 6–8, 2025! www.yorku.ca/research/con... #ConnectedMinds2025 #BrainsMachinesSociety #InterdisciplinaryResearch #AI #Neuroscience #DigitalHealth #HumanTechnologyInteraction

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Amanada Bongers -Who has a voice? Listening to Students' Overlooked Experiences in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Michele Morningstar- Parents vs. Peers: Probing the Influence of Context on Social Information Processing in Adolescence www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Kate Harkness -Theory of Mind-linked Behaviors’: Predicting Success in Social Interaction Catherine Stinson- Eliza's Ghosts: Can Chatbots be Psychotherapists? www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Randy Flanagan -Coordination and Control of Gaze and Hand Movements in Goal-directed Action Tasks Samual Dahan -Exploring Human-AI Methods for Access to Justice www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Jianbing Ni -Security, Privacy, and Robustness in Machine Learning at the Network Edge Xiaodan Zhu -Exploring Robust Natural Language and Reasoning Models with Deployment in High-stakes Applications www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Farhana Zulkernine -Advancing Machine Perception for Situation-Aware Goal-Oriented Human Machine Interaction Pouya Amiri -Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Human Balance Control www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad Fundamental Solutions for High-Fidelity Human Haptic Interaction Effie Pereira -Uncovering the Basic Mechanisms that Drive the Temporal Dynamics of Selective Attention www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Gunnar Blohm- Distributed Motor Planning and Control Il-Min Kim -Advancing Federated Edge Learning: A Secure and Adaptive Framework of Artificial Intelligence www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to CM Members for their recent funding awards! Qingguo Li- Next Generation Smart Personal Protective Equipment to Combat Heat, Load And Radiation Exposure in Clinical Environments Amy Wu -Breast Pump Designed with Ecological Breastfeeding in Mind www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Congratulations to Connected Minds trainee, Rupsha Mutsuddi, on receiving the prestigious SSHRC-CRSH – Doctoral (CGS-D) Award!