Aicumene · Bernima Inc.

Ivan Menshikov

EEG signal processing · Brain dynamics · Medical robotics · AI agents

Reading the oscillations of the brain, building robots for its vessels, and testing what AI agents actually do.

I work at Aicumene on multichannel EEG, from filtering and classifying it in real time to counting the brain’s active oscillators. My work also includes LevshAI, a robotic ecosystem for endovascular neurosurgery. With Alexandra Bernadotte I co-author Aicumene’s research on brain dynamics, strong AI, AI agents in economic games and verifiable AI for law.

Portrait of Ivan Menshikov

Research

Oscillations, in brains and in machines.

Most of this work starts from one question: how many oscillatory sources does a multichannel signal hold, and what are they? The same measurements then apply to the brain in sleep and coma, to trained networks, and the same habit of checking applies to AI agents.

Signal processing

Oscillatory sources in multichannel signals

Multichannel singular spectrum analysis embeds all channels at once, estimates how many oscillatory sources the signal holds, and recovers their frequencies, damping and spatial patterns, including attenuating oscillations.

Preprint, 2026Code

Brain dynamics

The oscillator dimension of the brain

BOID counts the active oscillatory modes in multichannel EEG. In coma after cardiac arrest it marks consciousness, a recovery mode and failed downshifting.

Preprint, 2026CodeSleep–wake dataset

Learning systems

From brain dynamics to strong AI

The same measurements applied to a trained artificial network: learning creates functional switching between oscillatory regimes.

Preprint, 2026

EEG decoding

Speech in the EEG

Silent speech recognised from EEG by convolutional and recurrent networks, with 85 % accuracy on nine words; and how the EEG of a simple speech task changes after COVID-19.

Sensors, 2021Computer Research and Modeling, 2023

AI agents

When language models reach Nash

Agents from different model families play classic economic games against each other. The work asks when their play converges to the Nash equilibrium.

Preprint, 2026SSRN

Verifiable AI

AI for law that can be checked

A legal verifiability compiler with a firewall between rules and judgment, so that the conclusions of a legal AI system can be verified.

Research note, 2026

Engineering

Instruments, robots and open tools.

The systems behind the research: signal pipelines that run in real time, robotics and imaging for the brain’s vessels, and the data and code released with the papers.

Medical robotics

LevshAI, for endovascular neurosurgery

A robotic ecosystem for endovascular operations: a motion-copying robot with haptic feedback, and a personalised 3D simulator of the patient’s vessels for planning before the operation.

IEEE CBS, 2023ICARA, 2023

Imaging

Brain vessels from MR angiography

Semi-automatic annotation of brain vessels in magnetic resonance angiography images, published as a data paper.

Scientific Data, 2025

Real-time EEG

A lightweight EEG pipeline

Hankel embedding in a pipeline light enough to filter and classify EEG in real time.

ICARA, 2026

Open data and code

Released with the papers

The AiCumene EEG-BCI Sleep–Wake Dataset: 45 synthetic whole-night recordings that keep the oscillatory structure of their sources, public under CC BY-NC 4.0, and 40 real wearable-EEG recordings available on request. The MSSA and BOID libraries, and Aicumene’s open engineering tools.

DatasetMSSABOIDgithub.com/aicumene

Publications

Selected work.

Preprints, AICumene Research

  1. From Brain Dynamics to Strong Artificial Intelligence: Learning Creates Functional Regime SwitchingA. Bernadotte, I. Menshikov · AiCumene:2026.045v1doi · 2026
  2. Multichannel Singular Spectrum AnalysisA. Bernadotte, I. Menshikov · AiCumene:2026.044v1doi · 2026
  3. Brain Oscillator Intrinsic Dimension marks consciousness, recovery mode, and failed downshifting in comaA. Bernadotte, I. Menshikov · AiCumene:2026.042v1doi · 2026
  4. Verifiable AI for Law: a legal verifiability compiler with a rule/judgment firewallA. Bernadotte, I. Menshikov · AiCumene:2026.040v1doi · 2026
  5. When Do Language Models Reach Nash? Heterogeneous Cross-Family LLM Agents in Classic Economic GamesA. Bernadotte, I. Menshikov · AiCumene:2026.038v1 · SSRN Working Paper 7637178doi · 2026

Journals and conferences

  1. A Lightweight Hankel-Embedded Pipeline for Real-Time EEG Filtering and ClassificationI. Menshikov, N. Elfimov, A. Bernadotte · International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA)2026
  2. Semi-automatic annotation of brain vessels in magnetic resonance angiography imagesA. Bernadotte, N. Elfimov, I. Menshikov · Scientific Data2025
  3. Intelligent Robotic Motion Copying System LevshAi for Neurosurgical Endovascular Operations with Haptic Feedback and Preoperative Personalized SimulationI. Menshikov, A. Bernadotte · IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS)2023
  4. Preoperative Personalized Vascular 3D Simulator of the Intelligent Robotic Ecosystem LevshAI for Endovascular NeurosurgeryI. Menshikov, K. Orlov, V. Berestov, A. Bernadotte · International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA)2023
  5. Frequency, time, and spatial electroencephalogram changes after COVID-19 during a simple speech taskD. Vorontsova, M. V. Isaeva, I. Menshikov, K. Orlov, A. Bernadotte · Computer Research and Modeling 15 (3), 691–7012023
  6. Silent EEG-Speech Recognition Using Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network with 85% Accuracy of 9 Words ClassificationD. Vorontsova, I. Menshikov, A. Zubov et al., with A. Bernadotte · Sensors 21 (20), 67442021

Data

  1. AiCumene EEG-BCI Sleep–Wake DatasetA. Bernadotte, I. Menshikov · Zenodo, v1.0, CC BY-NC 4.02026

Contact

Brain signals, robots, agents: write to me.

Open to researchers, engineers and clinicians working on EEG and neurotechnology, medical robotics, and AI agents that can be checked.