We want to congratulate Jakub Frąc and Alexander Schmatz, our 2024-2025 cohort of Network Institute Academy Assistants, and their supervisors Qiang Li, Guido Van Wingen, and Shujian Yu, on the forthcoming presentation of their project “Adapting HFMCA to Graph Data: Self-Supervised Learning for Generalizable FMRI Representations”, at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in Barcelona, Spain!

Find their paper on the publications page, or click here.

 With the Network Institute Academy Assistant (NIAA) programme, the Network Institute aims to interest bright young master students for conducting scientific research and pursuing an academic career. Every year, the Network Institute funds 10-15 positions for excellent student assistants to work with staff in small interdisciplinary research groups on highly focused projects.
Interested in participating or reading on this year’s projects? Read more here.