Facebook: Engineering Approaches to Responsible Neural Interface Design

The topics of interest focus on the development of noninvasive neurotechnologies for human use — animal studies are not in scope. 

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Inclusive optical neurotechnologies: This topic aims to both identify and address barriers to achieving reliable fNIRS performance across diverse individuals.
2. Inclusive surface EMG wristband technology:This topic focuses on accounting for differences in forearm characteristics across the global population. While the proposals should focus on surface electromyography (EMG) systems, intramuscular recordings to provide ground truth signals are within scope as well.
3. Privacy-preserving methods for handling neural data: Successful proposals for this topic will surface the privacy considerations related to the chosen technology and demonstrate the feasibility of a method/methods to protect these data (e.g. differential privacy, federated learning, or other creative methodologies).

Funding: $150K. Overhead for research gifts is limited to 5%.

https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/request-for-proposals-on-engineering-approaches-to-responsible-neural-interface-design/