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As we move into Fall, we are proud to reflect on the remarkable progress being made at the intersection of AI and neuroscience. From groundbreaking research in fneuroscience, to global conversations on how AI can support mental health, the Chen Institute continues to push the frontiers of knowledge and bring people together. Our recent Chen Institute and Science Joint Conference on AI and Mental Health highlighted both the challenges we face and the extraordinary promise of AI to improve lives. |
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Looking ahead, we are filled with excitement for the inaugural Chen Institute Symposium for AI Accelerated Science, organized in partnership by the Chen Institute and UC Berkeley College of Computing Data, Science, and Society (AIAS2025) in San Francisco on October 27-28th. This gathering will feature keynote talks from John Hennessy (President Emeritus of Stanford University), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), and Anima Anankumar (Caltech), along with other leaders in industry and academia for keynote talks, poster sessions, and the presentation of the Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research. We look forward to celebrating the winners and hearing firsthand how their groundbreaking work is transforming the scientific enterprise. |
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Thank you for being part of our growing community. Together, we are building the future of AI and neuroscience — and we look forward to sharing it with you. |
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With gratitude and anticipation, |
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We’ve just added the detailed agenda and new speakers to our exciting roster of industry and academic thought leaders for AIAS 2025. Free registration is still open for the inaugural Chen Institute Symposium for AI Accelerated Science, organized in partnership by the Chen Institute and UC Berkeley College of Computing Data, Science, and Society (AIAS2025), October 27–28, 2025, in San Francisco, CA. Join John Hennessy (President Emeritus of Stanford University), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), and Anima Anankumar (Caltech), along with other leaders in industry and academia for keynote talks, poster sessions, and the presentation of the Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research. |
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| Apply with an essay describing how you are using AI to accelerate or expand your research in life or physical sciences and you could have your work published in Science Magazine and receive a cash award. |
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Chen Institute in the News |
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The Chen Couple and the Geopolitical Philanthropy of the 21st Century |
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French national newspaper, Le Monde, recently wrote about Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo’s approach to philanthropy, describing their entrepreneurial thinking and complimenting them on how they’ve carefully navigated the current geopolitical landscape. |
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Tianqiao Chen's AI Company MiroMind Creates World-Class Predictive Large Model |
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Tianqiao Chen, founder of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, recently launched the MiroMind Open Deep Research (Miro ODR) project, a high-performance, fully open-source AI research platform that aims to challenge global leaders in the field. It recently ranked #1 on the FutureX ranking. |
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Tianqiao Chen and NeuroXess Founder Weigh in on BCI Industry's New Peak and the Need for 'Patient Capital' |
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In an exclusive interview published by 21st Century Business Herald, a well-known Chinese business and finance media outlet, Tao Hu, founder and chief scientist of NeuroXess, TCCI researcher, stated that the domestic brain-computer interface (BCI) industry has undergone significant internal and external changes in the past two years, leading to a new peak in its development. He noted that from a technological evolution perspective, the BCI industry's progression is similar to the upgrade of autonomous driving from L1 to L5, representing a comprehensive competition of capabilities.Tianqiao Chen told the 21st Century Business Herald that nurturing great, world-class companies requires "patient capital." He called on today's Chinese tech investors not to view BCI as merely an "investment craze" for quick returns. |
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Grand Mirror Studio Wins Global Recognition |
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From winning top honors in Beijing to earning nominations at international film festivals—including an Oscar-qualifying event—Grand Mirror Studio is redefining how science is communicated through art and AI. With over 2 million followers and 200 million views, its creative projects are inspiring global audiences. |
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2025 Chen Institute and Science Joint Conference on AI & Mental Health |
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September 08, 2025 - September 09, 2025 |
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With mental health a vast and growing global problem, we were pleased to partner with Science and ETH Zurich, this joint conference on AI and mental health. This year’s two-day conference highlighted how AI can be used to benefit individuals and society. Presenters discussed why we have recently seen such astonishing progress in AI and they reviewed promising applications of AI for the diagnosis and treatment of mental health. |
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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
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July 27, 2025 - August 01, 2025 |
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ACL 2025 has a goal of a diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. |
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2025 Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference |
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July 28, 2025 - July 29, 2025 |
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This year marked the 3rd edition of the Neuroscience of the Everyday World (N.E.W.) Conference, organized together with Boston University drawing in 191 in-person and 27 virtual attendees from across the United States and all over the world with registrants hailing from 12 different countries; including South Korea, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, India, and more. |
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The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval |
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July 13, 2025 - July 17, 2025 |
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The premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval. The conference is five days of short and long papers, resource & reproducibility papers, perspectives papers, system demonstrations, doctoral consortium, tutorials, and workshops focused on research and development in information retrieval. |
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AzureFLow Focused Ultrasound BCI and Neuromodulation Symposium |
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The symposium is organized together with Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. Experts and scholars from the fields of biophysics, biomedical engineering, basic medicine, and clinical medicine shared their latest research progress and clinical translation achievements. The seminar centered on three major applications of focused ultrasound technology for treating brain diseases: high-intensity thermal ablation, blood-brain barrier opening and drug delivery, and low-intensity neuromodulation. |
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24th Annual International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound |
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June 21, 2025 - June 24, 2025 |
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The Annual Symposium exploring promising applications and developments in therapeutic ultrasound was held in the heart of Banff. |
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Stem Cell–Based Embryo Models Reveal Pathway to Understanding Fertility |
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Caltech’s Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Bren Professor and TCCI-affiliated faculty, has developed embryo-like stem cell models (iG4-blastoids) mimicking implantation—critical for understanding fertility and environmental impacts like caffeine, alcohol, and diet—potentially transforming reproductive science. The work was described in the journal Developmental Cell. |
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Parkinson’s Disease Drug Candidates Induce Unexpected Damaging Effects |
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Caltech’s Tsui-Fen Chou and David Chan, both TCCI-affiliated faculty, report in Science Advances that two proposed Parkinson’s drugs fail to activate mitophagy as intended—instead damaging cells—reshaping understanding of potential treatments for this widespread neurodegenerative disease. |
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How a Jawless Vertebrate Parasite Reveals Evolutionary Origins of the Thyroid |
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The team in the lab of Caltech’s Marianne Bronner, TCCI-affiliated faculty, reports in Science Advances that neural crest stem cells enabled the evolutionary shift from the primitive endostyle to the thyroid, offering new insight into the gland’s 500-million-year origins and critical role in metabolism. |
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New Flexible BCI Paving Way for Clinical Use |
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TCCI researchers Tao Hu, Mao Ying, and Chen Liang collaborated on the development of a universal implantable flexible brain-computer interface (BCI) system compatible with various applications.The system allows for the flexible mind control of a wide range of physical and digital devices, having achieved precise control over more than 20 types of devices. The system's information transfer rate (BPS), with a similar training duration, is comparable to the level achieved by subjects in Elon Musk's Neuralink trials.This work represents the first-ever clinical trial for the long-term human implantation of a MEMS high-throughput, high-resolution flexible BCI, laying a crucial foundation for the clinical translation of this technology. TCCI is the author's affiliated institution for this study. |
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