Michael Bender’s paper, “Evaluating Thalamic Biomarkers for Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation in Essential Tremor,” has been named among the top 7% of submissions at EMBC 2025. This distinction makes the work eligible for inclusion in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME) special issue, “EMBC 2025 Top Papers,” to be published in 2026.