Building next generation HCI and BCI with open-source technologies

Speaker: Deepak Khatri

Abstract

The spectacular development of BCI & HCI technology over the last few decades is the work of several scientists who have helped to build the tools and methods for brain signal acquisition and processing. Their efforts pushed the whole domain to a level where interfacing your brain with a number-crunching bit manipulator is not science fiction now. Our aim of fully understanding the whole brain is a very ambitious goal and it will take several million brain hours to accomplish. If the number of hours is in millions we need to think if are going to get this done as a team of hundreds putting a million hours to solve this a couple of years down the line or if we want some hundred of us working for their lifetime. If you are sane and choose the former we need the students today to think about taking neuroscience as a career and it's our responsibility to provide them with the machines and tools as affordable as possible so that they grow up and build the next generation HCI and BCI disguised as a consumer electronics product. Open science is the right path forward and coupled with OpenSource neural interface equipment can make our dream a reality. We at Upside Down Labs are doing just that. We are the first company in India to design, manufacture, and introduce open-source DIY neuroscience kits for students, researchers, and companies. Our hardware has reached 35+ countries bringing us closer to our aim to impact all young minds in a way that they all can contribute and be a part of this neuro-revolution.

Bio

Deepak Khatri is the Founder of Upside Down labs. He is a Bio-technologist with a passion for Electronics and Computer Science who started Upside Down Labs in 2018 with an aim to make neuroscience affordable and accessible to all. He loves working on technologies that connect the biological world to the digital world.