<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><h1 id="ijcai-ecai-2026-call-for-papers-main-track" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FRONTIER SERIES 2026 / </h1><h2 id="important-dates" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TRANSLATIONAL NEUROCOGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES</h2><h2 id="important-dates" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4">/ Cognitive Neuroscience. Responsible AI. Clinical Application. /</font></h2><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Örebro University and Lund University (Sweden) present the Frontier 2026 Talk Series centralising the themes of next-generation responsible neurocognitive technologies and translational clinical neuroscience. The series brings together researchers from neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, engineering, and data science to explore the mechanisms of brain function in health and disease. The series emphasises interdisciplinary methodologies linking neuroimaging, molecular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, computational cognitive modelling, computer science, and cognitive science to drive innovation and societal impact with ecologically valid diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention in real-world clinical contexts.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Participation is free, and all interested are welcome. <u>Special opportunities exist for student participants </u></span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><u>(refer below)</u></span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#444444" face="HelveticaNeue"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Details / </b></span></font><a href="https://codesign-lab.org/frontier26/">https://codesign-lab.org/frontier26/</a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;"><br></span></p></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><h2 id="important-dates" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPEAKER PANEL > </h2><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue;">/</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;"> </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">Germany</b><font color="#444444" face="HelveticaNeue"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;"> (Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience. Heinrich-Heine-University. Hertie Institute - University of Tübingen. Research Center Jülich. </span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">Freie Universität Berlin</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue;">) \ <b>Netherlands</b> (Universiteit Leiden) \ <b>Poland</b> (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) \ <b>Singapore</b> (National University of Singapore) \ <b>Sweden</b> (University of Gothenburg. Karolinska Institute. Lund University) \ <b>Taiwan</b> (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) \ <b>United States</b> (Columbia University Medical Center. Georgia Institute of Technology)</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>In order of planned schedule during 2026</b>:</span></font></font></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;">Prof. Simon Eickhoff (Heinrich-Heine-University & Research Center Jülich, Germany)</font></font></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;"><i>Clinical Brain Medicine 2.0 – The ABCD-J Platform for Digital Biomarker Research and mHealth</i>”</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dr. Sankaraleengam Alagapan (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Interpretability in Neurotechnology: Using Explainable AI to Identify Biomarkers in Deep Brain Stimulation</i>”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="HelveticaNeue"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— Prof</span><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">. Juan (Helen) Zhou (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Multimodal Neuroimaging in Neuropsychiatric Disorders</i>”</span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Esther Kuehn (Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Germany)</span></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Translational Applications of Layer-Specific Multimodal MRI for Aging and Neurodegeneration</i>”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Michael Schöll (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)</span></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Molecular Medicine, Neuroimaging and Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Disease</i>”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Joana Braga Pereira (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)</span></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><i><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mapping Brain Connectivity in Aging and Neurodegeneration: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Molecular Markers to Brain Networks</span></i><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Ching-Po Lin (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)</span></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;"><i>MRI, Brain Connectomics, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders</i></span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">”</span></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Mikael Johansson (Lund University, Sweden)</span></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><i>Decoding Episodic Memory: Neural Reinstatement and Eye Movement Dynamics in the Reconstruction of Past Events</i><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Marcin Leszczyński (Columbia University Medical Center, US & Jagiellonian University, Poland)</span></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Neural Oscillations, Memory, and Neural (Dys)Function</i>”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Ineke van der Ham (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)</span></div><div><font color="#444444"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>The Potential of Virtual Reality for Clinical Neuropsychology</i>”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 15px;">— </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof. Radoslaw Martin Cichy (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)</span></div><div><font color="#444444" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">“</span></font></font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Empirical Vision Neuroscience for Next-Generation AI</i></span><font face="HelveticaNeue"><span style="font-size: 15px;">”</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Talk details, schedule, joining instructions, and other relevant details are available at</b>: </span></font><a href="https://codesign-lab.org/frontier26/">https://codesign-lab.org/frontier26/</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><h2 id="important-dates" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">STUDENTS > OBTAIN EDUCATIONAL CREDITS</h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The Frontier 2026 series will also in parallel run in a seminar mode for those participants desirous of securing educational credits (e.g., as part of an accredited educational programme). Please contact the series co-ordinators<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(details below) for further information concerning this form of participation, including deadlines, participation process, and expected requirements towards obtaining course credit.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></p><h2 id="important-dates" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">COORDINATION — CONTACT</h2><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mehul Bhatt -and- Vasiliki Kondyli</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;">Örebro University -and- Lund University / Sweden</span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;">CoDesign Lab EU / Artificial and Human Intelligence</span></font></span></div><div><a href="https://codesign-lab.org/">https://codesign-lab.org/</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px;"><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>(Apologies for redundant distribution; kindly please forward as you see fit)</i></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>