IEEE EMBC 2025 – Silent Disco Presentations

Code Slides Blood-pressure slides FEMBA slides Finetuning & Quantization paper FEMBA paper BioFoundation codebase
Silent-disco style oral at IEEE EMBC 2025

Abstract

EMBC 2025 experimented with “silent disco” technical sessions—headphones on, presentations streamed like a live podcast. I introduced our finetuning and quantisation pipeline for EEG foundation models on ECG/PPG blood-pressure estimation, while Anna Tegon showcased FEMBA. Together we highlighted how BioFoundation unifies multi-modality biosignal learning.

Date
17, Jul, 2025 711:00
Event
IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Conference (EMBC)
Location
Bella Center Copenhagen, Denmark
Center Blvd. 5, Copenhagen, Capital Region 2300

Presentation highlights

  • Silent disco format: Attendees tuned into talks through headsets—an unexpectedly intimate way to deliver technical content.
  • Finetuning & Quantization talk: Covered cross-modality transfer from EEG foundation models to ECG/PPG and INT8/INT4 deployment on edge devices.
  • FEMBA spotlight: Anna Tegon (ETH Zürich) presented our linear-time Mamba architecture for biosignals.
  • Takeaway: Foundation models for biosignals are converging—cross-modality pretraining, efficient finetuning, and open tooling via BioFoundation.
Headphones on for the silent-disco oral session.
Headphones on for the silent-disco oral session.
Catching up with Anna Tegon after the FEMBA presentation.
Catching up with Anna Tegon after the FEMBA presentation.

Slides & resources

EMBC Foundation Models Biosignals Quantization
Thorir Mar Ingolfsson
Thorir Mar Ingolfsson
Postdoctoral Researcher

I develop efficient machine learning systems for biomedical wearables that operate under extreme resource constraints. My work bridges foundation models, neural architecture design, and edge deployment to enable real-time biosignal analysis on microwatt-scale devices.

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