AI Epilepsy 2027 – Keynote: EEG-Based Foundation Models

Mon, 22 Feb 2027 09:00:00 -0700

I’m honoured to have been invited to give a keynote on EEG-based foundation models on February 22, 2027, the opening day of AI Epilepsy 2027 (February 22–25) in Breckenridge, Colorado — the mountain town where the conference series began in 2023.

What I’ll cover

Why foundation models for EEG: labeled clinical EEG is scarce and expensive, but unlabeled recordings are abundant. Self-supervised pre-training turns that archive into models that adapt to new clinical tasks with little annotation.
Any montage, any length: clinical and wearable EEG use very different electrode layouts and recording durations. LUNA (NeurIPS 2025) reads any electrode layout into a shared latent space, FEMBA and LuMamba scale linearly with recording length, and PanLUNA extends the idea to joint EEG, ECG, and PPG.
From the cloud to the patient: compressing these models until they run in real time on ultra-low-power wearables — the path towards continuous, long-term epilepsy monitoring outside the hospital.

Resources

Header banner: AI Epilepsy 2027 organizers.

Breckenridge in February

At 2,900 m in the Colorado Rockies, Breckenridge in late February means deep snow and groomed Nordic trails winding through the pines — a fitting setting for a meeting that started here.

Cross-country ski trail through snowy forest at the Breckenridge Nordic Center. Photo: christinejwarner, CC BY 2.0.

The Breckenridge Nordic Center lodge. Photo: christinejwarner, CC BY 2.0.

AI Epilepsy | Thorir Mar Ingolfsson

AI Epilepsy 2027 – Keynote: EEG-Based Foundation Models

What I’ll cover

Resources

Breckenridge in February