| Tuesday, 23 April 2024 | |||
| 08:00 | NICE 2024-- day 1 | ||
| 08:00 | |||
| 08:00‑08:30 | Registration and breakfast | ||
| 08:30‑08:45 | Welcome and opening | Gert Cauwenberghs, Duygu Kuzum, Tajana Rosing (Institute for Neural Computation and Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego) Miroslav Krstić (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UC San Diego) | |
| 08:50‑09:35 | Organisers round | Members of the organising committees | |
| 09:40‑10:25 | Keynote: Brains and AI show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) | |
| 10:30‑11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00‑11:25 | Biological Dynamics Enabling Training of Binary Recurrent Networks show talk video | William Chapman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 11:30‑11:40 | Towards Convergence Intelligence – neuromorphic engineering and engineered organoids for neurotechnology show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Dr. Grace Hwang (Program Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)/ U.S. BRAIN Initiative) | |
| 11:45‑12:10 | Invited talk: Learning algorithms for spiking and physical neural networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Friedemann Zenke (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research & University of Basel) | |
| 12:15‑12:30 | Poster teasers | ||
| 12:30‑14:00 | Poster-lunch (posters + finger food) | ||
| 14:00‑14:25 | SQUAT: Stateful Quantization-Aware Training in Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks | Sreyes Venkatesh (UC Santa Cruz) | |
| 14:30‑14:40 | Expressive Dendrites in Spiking Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Mark Plagge (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 14:45‑15:10 | Text-to-Events: Synthetic Event Camera Streams from Conditional Text Input show presentation.pdf (public accessible), video (restricted access) | Shih-Chii Liu (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
| 15:15‑15:45 | Break | ||
| 15:45‑16:10 | Embracing the Hairball: An Investigation of Recurrence in Spiking Neural Networks for Control show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Katie Schuman (University of Tennessee) | |
| 16:15‑17:00 | Open mic / discussion -- day I speakers | ||
| 17:00‑17:30 | Misha Mahowald Prizes show talk video | Tobi Delbruck (Inst. for Neuroinformatics, UZH-ETH Zurich) | |
| 17:30‑18:00 | Misha Mahowald Prizes show talk video | Carver Mead (California Institute of Technology) | |
| 18:00‑19:00 | Reception and celebration of 35+ years of neuromorphic engineering | ||
| Wednesday, 24 April 2024 | |||
| 08:00 | NICE 2024 - Day II | ||
| 08:00‑08:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 08:30‑09:15 | Keynote: Hearing with Silicon Cochleas | Shih-Chii Liu (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
| 09:20‑09:30 | Explaining Neural Spike Activity for Simulated Bio-plausible Network through Deep Sequence Learning show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Shruti R Kulkarni (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | |
| 09:35‑10:00 | Invited talk: Hardware Accelerators for Brain-Inspired Computing | John Arthur (IBM Research) | |
| 10:05‑10:30 | Hardware-aware Few-shot Learning on a Memristor-based Small-world Architecture show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Karthik Charan Raghunathan (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and UZH Zurich) | |
| 10:35‑11:05 | Break | ||
| 11:05‑11:30 | Spiking Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Loihi-2 | Brad Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 11:35‑11:45 | jaxsnn: Event-driven Gradient Estimation for Analog Neuromorphic Hardware show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Eric Müller (BrainScaleS, Heidelberg University) | |
| 11:50‑12:00 | Late-breaking-news: Distributed Neural State Machines on Loihi 2 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Alpha Renner (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) | |
| 12:05‑12:20 | Poster teasers 1-min "this is my poster content" teasers | ||
| 12:20‑12:30 | Group photo | ||
| 12:30‑14:00 | Poster-lunch (posters + finger food) | ||
| 14:00‑14:10 | Quantized Context Based LIF Neurons for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks in 45nm show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Sai Sukruth Bezugam (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara) | |
| 14:15‑14:40 | Compositional Factorization of Visual Scenes with Convolutional Sparse Coding and Resonator Networks | Chris Kymn (UC Berkeley), Sonia Mazelet (UC Berkeley) | |
| 14:45‑14:55 | Towards Chip-in-the-loop Spiking Neural Network Training via Metropolis-Hastings Sampling show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Ali Safa (imec and KU Leuven) | |
| 15:00‑15:10 | Leveraging Sparsity of SRNNs for Reconfigurable and Resource-Efficient Network-on-Chip show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Manu Rathore (TENNLab - Neuromorphic Architectures, Learning, Applications (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)) | |
| 15:15‑15:45 | Break | ||
| 15:45‑16:10 | Invited talk: Towards fractional order dynamics neuromorphic elements show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Fidel Santamaria (Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio) | |
| 16:15‑16:25 | Compute-in-Memory with 6T-RRAM Memristive Circuit for Next-Gen Neuromorphic Hardware | Kang Jun Bai (Air Force Research Laboratory) | |
| 16:30‑17:30 | Open mic / discussion - day II speakers | ||
| 17:30 | End of the second day | ||
| Thursday, 25 April 2024 | |||
| 08:00 | Day III | ||
| 08:00‑08:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 08:30‑09:15 | Keynote: NeuroBench: A Framework for Benchmarking Neuromorphic Computing Algorithms and Systems show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Jason Yik (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard) | |
| 09:20 | IEEE EMBS Forum on Intelligent Healthcare | ||
| 09:20‑09:25 | Introduction to the IEEE EMBS Forum on Intelligent Healthcare show talk video | Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego) | |
| 09:25‑09:35 | AI for healthcare show talk video | Margot Wagner (Salk Institute) | |
| 09:35‑09:45 | Boxes are pre-digital -- Discovering physiological diversity with AI show talk video | Benjamin Smarr (UC San Diego) | |
| 09:45‑09:55 | Organoid intelligence show talk video | Francesca Puppo (UC San Diego) | |
| 09:55‑10:05 | Health & AI: Flexible Engineered Learning Systems show talk video | Dr. Grace Hwang (NIH / NINDS) | |
| 10:05‑10:15 | EMBS Strategic Plan: from Vision to Implementation | Metin Akay (IEEE EMBS) | |
| 10:20‑10:50 | Break | ||
| 10:50‑11:00 | One-Shot Auditory Blind Source Separation via Local Learning in a Neuromorphic Network show talk video | Patrick Abbs (Cambrya, LLC) | |
| 11:05‑11:30 | Invited talk: TENN: A highly efficient transformer replacement for edge and event processing. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | M Anthony Lewis (BrainChip) | |
| 11:35‑11:45 | A Recurrent Dynamic Model for Efficient Bayesian Optimization | P. Michael Furlong (Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience/Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo) | |
| 11:50‑12:15 | Invited talk: Strategic & Large-Scale Considerations of Neuromorphic Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Craig Vineyard (Sandia National Laboratory) | |
| 12:20‑12:30 | GPU-RANC: A CUDA Accelerated Simulation Framework for Neuromorphic Architectures show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Joshua Mack (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona) | |
| 12:35‑13:35 | Lunch | ||
| 13:35‑13:45 | Late-breaking-news: Neuromodulated mixture of experts: A prefrontal cortex inspired architecture for lifelong learning show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Clara N Yi (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) | |
| 13:50‑14:15 | Energy Efficient Implementation of MVM Operations Using Filament-free Bulk RRAM Arrays show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Dr. Ashwani Kumar (Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego) | |
| 14:20‑14:30 | TickTockTokens: a minimal building block for event-driven systems show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Johannes Leugering (Institute for Neural Computation, Bioengineering Dept., UC San Diego) | |
| 14:35‑14:45 | Late-breaking-news: Brain-Inspired Hypervector Processing at the Edge of Large Language Models show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Goktug Ayar (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) | |
| 14:50‑15:00 | Spiking Neural Network-based Flight Controller show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Diego Chavez Arana (New Mexico State University) | |
| 15:05‑15:35 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:35‑16:00 | PETNet– Coincident Particle Event Detection using Spiking Neural Networks | Jan Debus (ETH Zurich) | |
| 16:05‑16:15 | NeRTCAM: CAM-Based CMOS Implementation of Reference Frames for Neuromorphic Processors show talk video | Harideep Nair (Carnegie Mellon University.) | |
| 16:20‑17:20 | Open mic / discussion - day III speakers | ||
| 17:20‑17:30 | Final words -- invitation to NICE 2025 | ||
| 17:30 | End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2024 | ||
| Friday, 26 April 2024 | |||
| 08:30 | Tutorial day | ||
| 08:30‑10:30 | Tutorial slot I | ||
| 10:30‑11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00‑13:00 | Tutorial slot II | ||
| 13:00‑14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00‑16:00 | Tutorial slot III | ||
| 16:00 | End of NICE 2024 | ||