Tuesday, 11 April 2023 | |||
08:00 | NICE 2023 -- day 1 | ||
08:00‑08:30 | Registration, coffee | ||
08:30 | Session chair: Dhireesha Kudithipudi | ||
08:30‑08:35 | Welcome | ||
08:40‑08:45 | Opening by Dr. Taylor Eighmy, President, University of Texas at San Antonio | ||
08:50‑09:35 | Organisers round | ||
09:40‑10:25 | Keynote: Neuroevolution: Beyond human design of neural networks | Risto Mikkulainen (UT Austin) | |
10:30‑11:00 | Break | ||
11:00‑11:25 | How Unsupervised Learning During Sleep Could Contribute to Temporal Pattern Recognition and The Gain of Insight | Itamar Lerner (University of Texas at San Antonio) | |
11:30‑11:40 | AEStream: Accelerated event-based processing with coroutines | Jens Egholm Pedersen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) | |
11:45‑12:10 | Goemans-Williamson MAXCUT approximation algorithm on Loihi | Bradley Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
12:15‑12:25 | Work in Progress: A Network of Sigma–Pi Units producing Higher-order Interactions for Reservoir Computing | Denis Kleyko (RISE) | |
12:30‑13:30 | lunch | ||
13:30 | Session chair: Johannes Schemmel | ||
13:30‑13:55 | Full-stack Co-Design for Neuromorphic Systems show talk video | Rajit Manohar (Yale University) | |
14:00‑14:25 | Modeling Coordinate Transformations in the Dragonfly Nervous System | Claire Plunkett (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
14:30‑14:55 | Beyond Neuromorphics: Non-Cognitive Applications of SpiNNaker2 show talk video | Christian Mayr (TU Dresden) | |
15:00‑15:30 | break | ||
15:30‑15:40 | Online training of quantized weights on neuromorphic hardware with multiplexed gradient descent show talk video | Adam McCaughan (NIST) | |
15:45‑16:10 | NEO: Neuron State Dependent Mechanisms for Efficient Continual Learning show talk video | Anurag Daram (UTSA) | |
16:15‑16:25 | Impact of Noisy Input on Evolved Spiking Neural Networks for Neuromorphic Systems show talk video | Karan Patel (University of Tennessee Knoxville) | |
16:30‑16:35 | Spotlight: Intel Neuromorphic Deep Noise Suppression Challenge | ||
16:35‑17:30 | Open mic / discussions | ||
17:30 | End of the first day of NICE | ||
17:30‑18:00 | (break) | ||
18:00‑18:30 | Shuttle service to downtown area | ||
18:30‑20:00 | Welcome reception in San Antonio downtown, at UTSA, San Pedro 1, 1st floor lobby | ||
20:00‑21:00 | 1h to explore San Antonio downtown (self guided) | ||
21:00‑21:30 | Shuttle back to UTSA |
Wednesday, 12 April 2023 | |||
08:00 | NICE 2023 - day 2 | ||
08:00‑08:30 | Breakfast | ||
08:30 | Session chair: Suma George Cardwell | ||
08:30‑09:15 | Keynote: Versatility, Efficiency, and Resilience in Large-Scale Neuromorphic Intelligence at the Edge show talk video | Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego) | |
09:20‑09:45 | All Aboard the Open-Source Neuromorphic Hardware Hype Train show talk video | Jason Eshraghian (University of California, Santa Cruz) | |
09:50‑10:15 | Exploring Information-Theoretic Criteria to Accelerate the Tuning of Neuromorphic Level-Crossing ADCs video (restricted access) | Ali Safa (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | |
10:20‑10:50 | break | ||
10:50‑11:00 | Easy and efficient spike-based Machine Learning with mlGeNN | James Knight (University of Sussex) | |
11:05‑11:30 | Structure-function duality in memristive intelligent systems show talk video | Melika Payvand (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich) | |
11:35‑11:45 | Additive manufacture of polymeric organometallic ferroelectric diodes (POMFeDs) for structural neuromorphic hardware | Davin Browner (Robotics Royal College of Art (UK)) | |
11:50‑12:15 | Poster flash talks: 1 min appetizer for posters | ||
12:15‑12:20 | Group photo | ||
12:20‑13:45 | Poster-Lunch (posters + finger food) | ||
13:45 | Session chair: Catherine Schuman | ||
13:45‑14:10 | hxtorch.snn: Machine-learning-inspired Spiking Neural Network Modeling on BrainScaleS-2 show talk video | Philipp Spilger (Heidelberg University) | |
14:15‑14:40 | SupportHDC: Hyperdimensional Computing with Scalable Hypervector Sparsity show talk video | Ali Safa (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | |
14:45‑15:15 | break | ||
15:15‑15:40 | Accelerating AI with analog in-memory computing | Stefano Ambrogio (IBM) | |
15:45‑15:55 | Configurable Activation Functions based on DW-MTJ LIF Neurons | Wesley Brigner (University of Texas Dallas) | |
16:00‑16:25 | Shunting Inhibition as a Neural-Inspired Mechanism for Multiplication in Neuromorphic Architectures | Frances Chance (Sandia National Lab) | |
16:30‑17:30 | Open mic / discussions | ||
17:30‑19:00 | Break | ||
19:00‑21:00 | Conference dinner |
Thursday, 13 April 2023 | |||
08:00 | NICE 2023 - day 3 | ||
08:00‑08:30 | Breakfast | ||
08:30 | Session chair: Craig Michael Vineyard | ||
08:30‑09:15 | Exciting Opportunities at the Intersection of Spatial Neuroscience, Robot Navigation, and Neuromorphic Compute and Sensing show talk video | Michael Milford (QUT Robotics Centre) | |
09:20‑09:30 | Demonstration of neuromorphic sequence learning on a memristive array show talk video | Sebastian Siegel (Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich) | |
09:35‑10:35 | Funders panel - with the funders attending via video | ||
10:35‑11:05 | Break | ||
11:05‑11:30 | Speech2Spikes: Efficient Audio Encoding Pipeline for Real-time Neuromorphic Systems | Kenneth Stewart (University of California, Irvine) | |
11:35‑11:45 | Spiking LCA in a Neural Circuit with Dictionary Learning and Synaptic Normalization | Diego Chavez Arana (talk presented by Andrew Sornborger) (Los Alamos National Lab) | |
11:50‑12:15 | Neuromorphic Downsampling of Event-Based Camera Output | Charles Rizzo (University of Tennessee Knoxville) | |
12:20‑12:30 | A Neuromorphic System for Real-time Tactile Texture Classification | George Brayshaw (University of Bristol) | |
12:35‑14:05 | Poster-Lunch (posters + finger food) | ||
14:05 | Session chair: Felix Wang | ||
14:05‑14:15 | SIFT-ONN: SIFT Feature Detection Algorithm Employing ONNs for Edge Detection | Madeleine Abernot (University of Montpellier) | |
14:20‑14:45 | Translation and Scale Invariance for Event-Based Object tracking show talk video | Jens Pedersen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) | |
14:50‑15:15 | NeuroBench: Advancing Neuromorphic Computing through Collaborative and Rigorous Benchmarking | Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard University) | |
15:20‑15:50 | break | ||
15:50‑16:15 | Sigma-Delta networks for Robot Arm Control show talk video | Ed Lawson (U.S Naval Research Lab) | |
16:20‑16:45 | Towards Neuromorphic Edge Intelligence show talk video | Joseph Hays (U.S Naval research Lab) | |
16:50‑17:00 | Best paper award! (Sponsored by IOP neuroscience and APL machine learning) | ||
17:00‑17:30 | Open mic / discussions | ||
17:30 | End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2023 |