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Dr. Gary Garcia Molina has been active in BCI research for a decade. In 2004, he obtained his doctoral degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). His thesis entitled “Direct Brain-Computer Communication Through Scalp Recorded EEG Signals” was nominated for the Swiss best thesis award.
Since January 2005, Dr. Garcia is a Senior Researcher at Philips Research Europe Laboratories (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) where he leads a research activity aiming at developing practical Brain-Computer Interfaces for the consumer market. From 2007, Gary Garcia leads the Philips team that participates in the European consortium BRAIN (www.brain-project.org) which has as main objective the development of BCIs able to automatically adapt to the user and his/her environment, and do not require any expert assistance.
Gary Garcia serves as an adviser and project reviewer for the European-research program ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) on Inclusion and Independent Living.
Dr. Garcia published numerous research papers, and patent applications on BCIs. He has extensive experience with several types of BCIs and has been cooperating with numerous laboratories academic and industry to develop BCI technology into home appliances for the disabled and the healthy. He chaired conference sessions on signal processing for BCI technology, and led Philips seminars on EEG processing. In November 2008, he taught a tutorial on BCIs based on Motor Imagery at the IEEE/BiOCAS (Intelligent Biomedical systems) conference (http://www.biocas2008.org/tutorials.html). In September 2009 he gave a tutorial on Affective BCIs [10] at the “Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction” (ACII) 2009 conference.