Dr. Ricardo Chavarriaga

Dr. Ricardo Chavarriaga
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Responsible AI Innovation Group
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur
Personal profile
Management role
Head, CLAIRE Office Zürich
Position at the ZHAW
Research Associate
Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)
www.zhaw.ch/en/engineering/institutes-centres/cai/
ricardo.chavarriaga.me
Expertise and research interests
Brain-machine interfacing, Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, Scientific diplomacy, Neurotechnologies, Responsible innovation
Educational background
2019 - Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Management of Biotech, Medtech, and Pharma Ventures. EPFL, Switzerland
2019 - Professional Project Management (PMP) Certification. Project Management Institution, PMI, USA
2005 - PhD in Computational Neuroscience. School of Computer Science, EPFL, Switzerland
Professional milestones
2019-present: Executive-in-Residence, Geneva Center for Security Policy, Switzerland
2017-present: Chair, Working group on Neurotechnologies for brain-machine interfacing, IEEE Standards Association
2011-present: Co-Chair, Technical committee on brain-machine interface systems, IEEE Society on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
2009-2019: Research Scientist, Lecturer, EPFL, Switzerland
2006-2008: Research Scientist, Idiap research Institute, Switzerland
Awards:
2021: ZHAW Digital-DIZH Fellowship on Good practices for responsible development of AI-based applications in healthcare
2019: IEEE Society on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Best Associate Editor - Human-Machine Systems
2019: Elevated to the grade of IEEE senior member
2016, 2017, 2018: IEEE Society on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Award to the most active technical committee in Human Machine Interaction
2017: Journal of Neural Engineering, IOP Publishing. Outstanding reviewer award
2015: Nominee International BCI award (top 10): Project: Easy riders: Brain-computer interfaces for enhancing driving experience
2013: Nominee International BCI award (top 10): Project: Cognitive signals for brain-machine interfaces: an alternative paradigm to neuroprosthetics control
Membership of networks
- CLAIRE - Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe (Head of Zürich office)
- Datalab, the ZHAW Data Science Laboratory
- IEEE Standards Association group on Neurotechnologies for brain-machine interfacing (Chair)
- IEEE Standards Association group P2863 Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of AI (Chair Subgroup on Principles)
- IEEE Brain Initiative (Core group member)
- IEEE Standards Association group P7700 Recommended Practice for the Responsible Design and Development of Neurotechnologies (Vice-chair)
- Brain Computer Interface Society
MIT Technology Review Global Panel- Databooster (co-lead Focus Topic: Responsible AI)
Projects
- Stability of self-organizing net fragments as inductive bias for next-generation deep learning / Team member / Project ongoing
- certAInty – A Certification Scheme for AI systems / Project leader / Project ongoing
- Mobile Inclusion Lab / Project co-leader / Project completed
- Good practices for responsible development of AI-based applications in healthcare / Project leader / Project completed
- FWA: Visual Food Waste Analysis for Sustainable Kitchens / Team member / Project completed
Publications
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Iwane, Fumiaki; Sobolewski, Aleksander; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millán, José del R.,
2023.
EEG error-related potentials encode magnitude of errors and individual perceptual thresholds.
iScience.
(107524).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107524
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Porssut, Thibault; Iwane, Fumiaki; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Blanke, Olaf; Millán, José Del R.; Boulic, Ronan; Herbelin, Bruno,
2023.
EEG signature of breaks in embodiment in VR.
PLOS ONE.
18(5), pp. e0282967.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282967
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Meng, Lubin; Jiang, Xue; Huang, Jian; Zeng, Zhigang; Yu, Shan; Jung, Tzyy-Ping; Lin, Chin-Teng; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Wu, Dongrui,
2023.
EEG-based brain-computer interfaces are vulnerable to backdoor attacks.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
31, pp. 2224-2234.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2023.3273214
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Ienca, Marcello; Fins, Joseph J.; Jox, Ralf J.; Jotterand, Fabrice; Voeneky, Silja; Andorno, Roberto; Ball, Tonio; Castelluccia, Claude; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Chneiweiss, Hervé; Ferretti, Agata; Friedrich, Orsolya; Hurst, Samia; Merkel, Grischa; Molnár-Gábor, Fruzsina; Rickli, Jean-Marc; Scheibner, James; Vayena, Effy; Yuste, Rafael; Kellmeyer, Philipp,
2022.
Towards a governance framework for brain data.
Neuroethics.
15(2), pp. 20.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-022-09498-8
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Huggins, Jane E.; Krusienski, Dean; Vansteensel, Mariska J.; Valeriani, Davide; Thelen, Antonia; Stavisky, Sergey; Norton, James J.S.; Nijholt, Anton; Müller-Putz, Gernot; Kosmyna, Nataliya; Korczowski, Louis; Kapeller, Christoph; Herff, Christian; Halder, Sebastian; Guger, Christoph; Grosse-Wentrup, Moritz; Gaunt, Robert; Dusang, Aliceson Nicole; Clisson, Pierre; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Anderson, Charles W.; Allison, Brendan; Aksenova, Tetiana; Aarnoutse, Erik,
2022.
Workshops of the eighth international brain-computer interface meeting : BCIs: the next frontier.
Brain-Computer Interfaces.
9(2), pp. 69-101.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/2326263X.2021.2009654
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Dell'Agnola, Fabio; Jao, Ping-Keng; Arza, Adriana; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millan, Jose Del R.; Floreano, Dario; Atienza, David,
2022.
Machine-learning based monitoring of cognitive workload in rescue missions with drones.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
26(9), pp. 4751-4762.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3186625
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Batzianoulis, Iason; Iwane, Fumiaki; Wei, Shupeng; Correia, Carolina Gaspar Pinto Ramos; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millán, José del R.; Billard, Aude,
2021.
Communications Biology.
4(1406).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02891-8
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Eke, Damian O; Bernard, Amy; Bjaalie, Jan G; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Hanakawa, Takashi; Hannan, Anthony J; Hill, Sean L; Martone, Maryann E; McMahon, Agnes; Ruebel, Oliver; Crook, Sharon; Thiels, Edda; Pestilli, Franco,
2021.
International data governance for neuroscience.
Neuron.
110(4), pp. 600-612.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.11.017
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Delaux, Alexandre; Saint Aubert, Jean‐Baptiste; Ramanoël, Stephen; Bécu, Marcia; Gehrke, Lukas; Klug, Marius; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Sahel, José‐Alain; Gramann, Klaus; Arleo, Angelo,
2021.
Mobile brain/body imaging of landmark‐based navigation with high‐density EEG.
European Journal of Neuroscience.
54(12), pp. 8256-8282.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15190
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Bontempi, Gianluca; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; De Canck, Hans; Girardi, Emanuela; Hoos, Holger; Kilbane-Dawe, Iarla; Ball, Tonio; Nowé, Ann; Sousa, Jose; Bacciu, Davide; Aldinucci, Marco; De Domenico, Manlio; Saffiotti, Alessandro; Maratea, Marco,
2021.
The CLAIRE COVID-19 initiative : approach, experiences and recommendations.
Ethics and Information Technology.
23(Suppl 1), pp. S127-S133.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09567-7
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Aydarkhanov, Ruslan; Ušćumlić, Marija; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Gheorghe, Lucian; Millán, José del R,
2021.
Closed-loop EEG study on visual recognition during driving.
Journal of Neural Engineering.
18(2), pp. 026010.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/abdfb2
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Jao, Ping-Keng; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Dell'Agnola, Fabio; Arza, Adriana; Atienza, David; Millan, Jose del R.,
2021.
EEG correlates of difficulty levels in dynamical transitions of simulated flying and mapping tasks.
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
51(2), pp. 99-108.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2020.3038339
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Jao, Ping-Keng; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millan, Jose del R.,
2021.
EEG-based online regulation of difficulty in simulated flying.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
14(1), pp. 394-405.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3059688
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Iwane, Fumiaki; Iturrate, Iñaki; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millán, José del R.,
2021.
Journal of Neural Engineering.
18(4), pp. 046044.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/abfa70
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Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Carey, Carole; Contreras-Vidal, Jose Luis; McKinney, Zach; Bianchi, Luigi,
2021.
IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology.
2, pp. 71-73.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OJEMB.2021.3061328
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Aydarkhanov, Ruslan; Ušćumlić, Marija; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Gheorghe, Lucian; del R Millán, José,
2020.
Spatial covariance improves BCI performance for late ERPs components with high temporal variability.
Journal of Neural Engineering.
17(3), pp. 036030.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ab95eb
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Orset, Bastien; Lee, Kyuhwa; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millan, Jose del R.,
2020.
User adaptation to closed-loop decoding of motor imagery termination.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
68(1), pp. 3-10.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2020.3001981
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Jeunet, Camille; Tonin, Luca; Albert, Louis; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Bideau, Benoît; Argelaguet, Ferran; Millán, José del R.; Lécuyer, Anatole; Kulpa, Richard,
2020.
Scientific Reports.
10(1705).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58533-2
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Zhang, Xiao; Wu, Dongrui; Ding, Lieyun; Luo, Hanbin; Lin, Chin-Teng; Jung, Tzyy-Ping; Chavarriaga, Ricardo,
2020.
National Science Review.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa233
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Iturrate, Iñaki; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millán, José del R.,
2020.
General principles of machine learning for brain-computer interfacing
.
In:
Millan, José del R; Ramsay, Nick F., eds.,
Handbook of Clinical Neurology ; 168.
Elsevier.
pp. 311-328.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63934-9.00023-8
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Simmler, Niclas; Sager, Pascal; Andermatt, Philipp; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Rosenthal, Matthias; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2021.
In:
Proceedings of the 8th SDS.
8th Swiss Conference on Data Science, Lucerne, Switzerland, 9 June 2021.
IEEE.
pp. 26-31.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS51136.2021.00012
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Amirian, Mohammadreza; Tuggener, Lukas; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Satyawan, Yvan Putra; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Schwenker, Friedhelm; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2021.
Two to trust : AutoML for safe modelling and interpretable deep learning for robustness [paper].
In:
Postproceedings of the 1st TAILOR Workshop on Trustworthy AI at ECAI 2020.
1st TAILOR Workshop on Trustworthy AI at ECAI 2020, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 29-30 August 2020.
Springer.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22061
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Weng, Joanna; Reif, Monika; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Schilling, Frank-Peter,
2023.
certAInty : a certification scheme for AI systems (Innosuisse project) [poster].
In:
Datalab Symposium, Winterthur, Schweiz, 11. Januar 2023.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27261
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Orset, Bastien; Lee, Kyuhwa; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millán, José del. R,
2021.
Stopping vs Resting state during motor imagery paradigm.
bioRxiv.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.15.448360
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Perdikis, Serafeim; Leeb, Robert; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Millán, José del R.,
2020.
Context-aware learning for generative models.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3011671
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Chavarriaga, Ricardo,
2020.
Standards for neurotechnologies and brain-machine interfacing.
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine.
6(3), pp. 50-51.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MSMC.2020.2995438
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
Full list in Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations
Chavarriaga R. et al. (2020) Standards Roadmap: Neurotechnologies for Brain-Machine Interfacing, IEEE Standards Association standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/neurotechnologies-for-brain-machine-interfacing.html
Lotte et al. (2019) Turning negative into positives! Exploiting "negative" results in Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) research. Brain-Computer Interfaces doi.org/10.1080/2326263X.2019.1697143
Chavarriaga R. et al. (2018) Decoding neural correlates of cognitive states to enhance driving experience. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence 2, 288–297. doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2018.2848289
Chavarriaga R., Fried-Oken M., Kleih S., Lotte F. & Scherer R. (2017) Heading for new shores! Overcoming pitfalls in BCI design. Brain-Computer Interfaces 4, 60–73. infoscience.epfl.ch/record/223730
Min B.-K., Chavarriaga R. & Millán J. d. R. (2017) Harnessing prefrontal cognitive signals for brain-machine interfaces. Trends in Biotechnology, 35, 7, 585-597. infoscience.epfl.ch/record/226817
Saeedi S., Chavarriaga R. & Millán J. d. R. (2017) Long-Term Stable Control of Motor-Imagery BCI by a Locked-In User Through Adaptive Assistance. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 25, 380–391. infoscience.epfl.ch/record/224012
Lee K., Liu D., Perroud L., Chavarriaga R., & Millán J. d. R. (2017) A brain-Controlled exoskeleton with cascaded event-related desynchronization classifiers. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. infoscience.epfl.ch/record/221052
Iturrate I., Chavarriaga R., Montesano L., Minguez J. & Millán J. d. R. (2015) Teaching brain-machine interfaces as an alternative paradigm to neuroprosthetics control. Scientific Reports 5. infoscience.epfl.ch/record/211086
Zhang H., Chavarriaga R. & Millán J. d. R. (2015) Discriminant brain connectivity patterns of performance monitoring at average and single-trial levels. NeuroImage 120, 64–74. linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053811915006217
Chavarriaga R., Sobolewski A. & Millán J. d. R. (2014) Errare machinale est: The use of error-related potentials in brain-machine interfaces. Frontiers in Neuroscience 8, 208. journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2014.00208/abstract
Roggen D, Tröster G, Lukowicz P, Ferscha A, Millán, J. d. R. & Chavarriaga (2013). Opportunistic human activity and context recognition. IEEE Computer, 46, 2, 36-45. infoscience.epfl.ch/record/182084
Perrin X., Chavarriaga R., Colas F., Siegwart R. & Millán J. d. R. (2010) Brain-coupled interaction for semi-autonomous navigation of an assistive robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 58, 12, 1246-1255. infoscience.epfl.ch/record/149091
Other publications
SELECTED COMMUNICATIONS
Sept 2021: Digital Futures Lab Blog post: How much do Swiss politicians know about AI blog.zhaw.ch/digital-futures-lab/2021/09/23/how-much-do-swiss-politicians-know-about-artificial-intelligence/
July 2021: Swissinfo: Will Switzerland distance itself from the EU on mass surveillance? www.swissinfo.ch/eng/will-switzerland-distance-itself-from-the-eu-on-mass-surveillance-/46766024
Oct 2020: Swiss Parliament - Press release : Le Future politique de Sécurité sous la Loupe www.parlament.ch/press-releases/Pages/mm-sik-n-2020-10-27.aspx
SELECTED TALKS (Full list: rchavarriaga.github.io/talks/):
Jun 2021: ZHAW digital series "Digital tools against Covid-19 - Addressing ethical challenges, public trust and acceptance". www.zhaw.ch/en/about-us/news/events/events/event-news/digital-tools-against-covid19-addressing-ethical-challenges-public-trust-and-acceptance/
May 2021: Claire Office Switzerland launch event: "AI4Good: Building a Nexus between Research, Innovation and Society". claire-ai.org/ch-office-launch/
May 2021: OECD Workshop: “Neurotechnology in and for society – deliberation, stewardship and trust”
Mar 2021: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO): Launch of the WIPO Technology Trends Report on Global Trends in Assistive Technology
Jan 2021: Workshop on Brain-Computer Interfaces. “Capturing Technology. Rethinking Arms Control”. German Federal Foreign Office
Nov 2020: Internet Governance Forum 2020 - Best Practice Forum on Data and New Technologies in an Internet Context www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2020-bpf-data-and-new-technologies-in-an-internet-context
Nov 2020: DEFTECH DAYS - Human-machine interface & Interaction, Thun, Switzerland. deftech.ch/human-machine-interface-and-interaction-november-10th-2020/
Nov 2020: Nationalrat Sicherheitspolitisches Seminar 2020 - Die militärischen Anwendungen der künstlichen Intelligenz www.parlament.ch/press-releases/Pages/mm-sik-n-2020-10-27.aspx
Sep 2020: Women in AI Global Summit 2020 www.womeninai.co/wai-summit
June 2020: Workshop Global Perspectives on Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Freiburg, Germany. www.jura.uni-freiburg.de/de/institute/ioeffr2/forschung-1/responsible-ai
June 2020: AI Governance Forum 2020 - From the governance of AI to the governance via AI, Digital Conference. Moderator panel: “Healthcare and AI”, Geneva . ai-gf.com
March 2020: Public discussion: Kann KI uns helfen, globale Herausforderungen zu meistern?, Winterthur, Switzerland. www.zhaw.ch/de/ueber-uns/aktuell/veranstaltungen/detailansicht-veranstaltung/event-news/12850/
November 2019: Symposium Closing the regulatory gap for consumer neurotechnology, Brocher Foundation, Geneva. www.brocher.ch/fr/events/392/closing-the-regulatory-gap-for-consumer-neurotechnology
November 2018: Samsung Developer's Conference, SDC18, San Francisco, USA. Invited talk: Accessibility beyond - Use your brain to control your TV
October 2018: Meeting of the International Global Brain Initiatives, IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Miyazaki Japan.
September 2018: OECD Workshop "Minding Neurotechnology: delivering responsible innovation for health and well-being", Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
March 2018: South by Southwest festival (SXSW), Austin USA. Panelist: Mental Works: Moving Beyond Our Carbon Based Minds