NSF ARNI, Meta, and Sophont’s “Foundation Models for the Brain and Body” NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
December 2025 | San Diego, CA
NSF ARNI, alongside Meta and Sophont, is co-organizing and sponsoring the “Foundation Models for the Brain and Body” NeurIPS 2025 Workshop.
Papers, demos, and requests for travel awards are invited by August 22, 2025.
About the Workshop
As large-scale datasets become available, AI models are increasingly capable of deciphering the rich and complex biological language of neural and physiological signals that our brains and bodies speak. Explore the emerging intersection of large-scale AI models and biosignals collected through brain-computer interfaces and wearable technologies!
With recent advances in brain interfacing and wearable technologies — EEG, intracortical electrophysiology, EMG, MEG, and ECG, for example — the broad collection of these signals across real-world contexts and diverse populations has been enabled. This growing wealth of data is driving a shift toward foundation models: large-scale, pretrained AI systems designed to learn from biosignals and generalize across diverse downstream applications, from brain-computer interfacing to health monitoring.
However, realizing this potential requires addressing the unique challenges that come with biosignal timeseries, as they’re noisy, heterogeneous, and collected under variable conditions across subjects, devices, and environments.
This event brings neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, wearable tech researchers, and machine learning experts advancing foundation model approaches together to meet these challenges.
The event goal is to catalyze the next generation of AI models that can capture the complexity of the brain, body, and behavior at scale, through interdisciplinary dialogue. Learn more about the Workshop, including a schedule, list of speakers, and more.
Learn more about the calls, including relevant topics, submission guidelines, and more.
