Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop - Tutorial Track

Concrete Applications of AI to Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
NeurIPS 2025 · San Diego, CA

Contact: data‑brain‑mind@googlegroups.com

Tutorial track technical support: mhs.bastankhah@princeton.edu

This page covers the Tutorial Track only.
For the main workshop information (organizers, speakers, schedule, key dates, etc.) please visit:
https://data-brain-mind.github.io/

Overview

The Tutorial Track complements our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop at NeurIPS 2025 by soliciting tutorial‑style, educational tutorials that help the community work with emerging, heterogeneous neuroscience and cognitive‑science datasets.

Large‑scale, open datasets now span:

  • Whole‑brain circuitry: FlyWire, IBL, WormID
  • Visual–motor cortical processing: MICrONS
  • Human development: BabyView
  • Natural speech processing: MEG‑MASC

These data are far from standard ML benchmarks; they include time series, images, videos, text, and complex graph structures, each with distinctive meta‑information (e.g., MEG electrode coordinates). Tutorials should demystify such datasets, share best practices, and highlight tailored AI solutions beyond one‑size‑fits‑all models.

Call for Contributions

We invite posts that, for example:

  • Provide step‑by‑step guides to accessing or preprocessing a dataset
  • Walk through ML methods tailored to neuro/cognitive data
  • Offer critical reflections on data quirks or lessons learned
  • Describe collaborative tooling across ML, neuroscience, and cognitive science

All tutorials must publicly share the dataset they use. Accepted posts will appear on the workshop blog and feature in a poster session at the workshop.

Key Dates (Tutorial Track)

Submission Deadline: September 4, 2025, 23:59 (AoE)

Submissions are handled via OpenReview. For information about the submission refer to Submission Instructions.

Contact

For Tutorial Track questions or technical issues, email mhs.bastankhah@princeton.edu. For general questions about the workshop email us at data‑brain‑mind@googlegroups.com.