| Tuesday, 11 April 2023 |
08:00
| NICE 2023 -- day 1 |
08:00‑08:30
| | Registration, coffee |
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
| | full: invited (T) | 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 |
13:30‑13:55
| | Full-stack Co-Design for Neuromorphic Systems | 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 | 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 | Adam McCaughan (NIST) |
15:45‑16:10
| | NEO: Neuron State Dependent Mechanisms for Efficient Continual Learning | Anurag Daram (UTSA) |
16:15‑16:25
| | Impact of Noisy Input on Evolved Spiking Neural Networks for Neuromorphic Systems | 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
| | (self organised travel to San Antonio downtown) | |
18:00‑20:30
| | Welcome reception in San Antonio downtown |
| Wednesday, 12 April 2023 |
08:00
| NICE 2023 - day 2 |
08:00‑08:30
| | Breakfast |
08:30‑09:15
| | Keynote: Versatility, Efficiency, and Resilience in Large-Scale Neuromorphic Intelligence at the Edge | Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego) |
09:20‑09:45
| | full invited (H) | Jason K Eshraghian (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
09:50‑10:15
| | SupportHDC: Hyperdimensional Computing with Scalable Hypervector Sparsity | 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
| | Beyond MVM applications for RRAMs in Spiking Neural Network Hardware | Melika Payvand (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich) |
11:35‑11:45
| | Additive manufacture of polymeric organometallic ferroelectric diodes (POMFeDs) for structural neuromorphic hardware | Davin Browner |
11:50‑12:15
| | Poster flash talks: 1 min appetizer for posters | |
12:15‑13:45
| | Poster-Lunch (posters + finger food) |
13:45‑14:10
| | hxtorch.snn: Machine-learning-inspired Spiking Neural Network Modeling on BrainScaleS-2 | Philipp Spilger (Heidelberg University) |
14:15‑14:40
| | Exploring Information-Theoretic Criteria to Accelerate the Tuning of Neuromorphic Level-Crossing ADCs | 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 | |
19:00‑21:00
| | Conference dinner |
| Thursday, 13 April 2023 |
08:00
| NICE 2023 - day 3 |
08:00‑08:30
| | Breakfast |
08:30‑09:15
| | Keynote (A) | Michael Milford (QUT Robotics Centre) |
09:20‑09:30
| | Demonstration of neuromorphic sequence learning on a memristive array | Sebastian Siegel (Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich) |
09:35‑10:35
| | Funders panel (TBC) | |
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, (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) |
14:05‑14:15
| | 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 | Jens Egholm Pedersen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) |
14:50‑15:15
| | full invited (A) | invited speaker: Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard University) |
15:20‑15:50
| | break |
15:50‑16:15
| | Sigma-Delta networks for Robot Arm Control | Wallace Lawson (U.S Naval Research Lab) |
16:20‑16:45
| | full invited (A) | invited speaker: Joe Hays (U.S Naval research Lab) |
16:50‑17:30
| | Open mic / discussions | |
17:30
| End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2023 |