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