Prof. Javier Andreu-Perez gave an invited talk at fNIRS 2026, the IX Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, held at the University of Macau in Macao from 16 to 19 October 2026.
The talk, AI-Powered fNIRS: Emerging Techniques for Neural Decoding, was part of the special session Open fNIRS: Standards, Tools, and Culture for the Next Decade, on the morning of 19 October. The session was chaired by Alexander von Lühmann of TU Berlin and Meryem Yücel of Boston University. Other invited speakers included Judit Gervain of the University of Padova, Xi-Nian Zuo of Beijing Normal University, Christophe Grova of Concordia University, and Jiaming Cao of the University of Macau.
The session asked how the fNIRS community can make its methods, tools and data more open, shared and reproducible as the field grows.
