Awards · per-track top-3 plus workshop presentation

Awards & prizes.

Four tracks award the top three teams $2,500 each, plus travel support to present at the NeurIPS workshop in Sydney.

StatePreview
SubmissionsSep 16 - Nov 16, 2026
HandoffNeurIPS 2026 · Sydney

$30,000

Total prize pool

$2,500 for first, second, and third place in each of four tracks.

Who can win is a rules question. Eligibility, team composition, authorship on the competition report and the audit that gates every prize are defined on the Rules & FAQ page.

$2,500 each to the top three teams per track.

Each task-specific track has its own sponsor and the same cash prize structure: USD $2,500 to first, second, and third place, plus travel support for one representative per top-3 team to present at the NeurIPS workshop in Sydney.

AnnouncedAfter the summer
AwardedBrainBodyFM workshop · Dec 11 or 12, 2026
Track 01 EEG-to-IMG

Visual retrieval winner.

Top-5 retrieval accuracy on held-out images. Sponsored by Alljoined, who also contribute the dataset.

Sponsor: Alljoined Metric: Top-5 acc
1st$2,500
2nd$2,500
3rd$2,500
Track 02 BCI

BCI generalization winner.

Balanced accuracy across motor imagery, mental math, and word association, without recalibration. Sponsored by Meta FAIR Brain & AI.

Sponsor: Meta FAIR Brain & AI Metric: Bal. Acc
1st$2,500
2nd$2,500
3rd$2,500
Track 03 SLEEP

Sleep-onset winner.

Lowest MAE in seconds to stable N2 onset on consumer-grade wearable EEG. Sponsored by Muse, who provide the headband recordings.

Sponsor: Muse Metric: MAE (s)
1st$2,500
2nd$2,500
3rd$2,500
Track 04 EMG

EMG-to-Pose winner.

Lowest mean absolute angular error when regressing 20 hand-joint trajectories from wristband surface EMG. Sponsored by Meta Reality Labs.

Sponsor: Meta Reality Labs Metric: angular MAE (°)
1st$2,500
2nd$2,500
3rd$2,500
Sponsor offer · variable INTERNSHIP

6-month research internship.

Some tracks may offer a 6-month research internship to the first-place team's chosen representative at the sponsor company, subject to the sponsor's standard hiring process. Sponsor agreements are not finalised; confirmed offers will be announced on this page.

All tracks · TBC
Duration6 months (if offered)
Recipient1st-place rep · sponsor's choice

This competition follows the NeurIPS Code of Ethics.

Consent, mental privacy, and dataset-controller chains are operational baselines, not afterthoughts. The ethics page carries the full statement, the empirical limits on non-invasive decoding, and the per-track consent posture.

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The people behind the prizes.

The prize pool is funded by the track sponsors and the host organisation; the host institutions cover top-3 travel for every track. Every sponsor is listed on the homepage with their contribution.

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Compute partner
Track sponsors
Host & diversity support

Per-track top-3 cash, workshop in Sydney.

Top-3 per track win $2,500 each plus travel support for one representative. Start with a baseline, beat it, pass the audit, present in Sydney.