| Tuesday, 25 March 2025 | |||
| 08:30 | NICE 2025 | ||
| 08:30 | Registration | ||
| Session chair: Johannes Schemmel | |||
| 09:00 | NICE 2025 : opening and welcome | Markus Oberthaler (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics) | |
| 09:20 | Organisers round | NICE organisers committee members | |
| 10:10 | Keynote: Toward a formal semantics for neuromorphic computing theory show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Herbert Jäger (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) | |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair: Mihai Petrovici | |||
| 11:30 | Exploring Spike Encoder Designs for Near-Sensor Edge Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065206 | Qinru Qiu (Syracuse University) | |
| 12:00 | A LIF-based Legendre Memory Unit as neuromorphic State Space Model benchmarked on a second-long spatio-temporal task show presentation.pdf (public accessible) video (restricted access) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065250 | Vittorio Fra (Politecnico di Torino) | |
| 12:15 | Demonstrating the Advantages of Analog Wafer-Scale Neuromorphic Hardware show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065060 | Eric Müller (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg) | |
| 12:45 | 10 Poster teasers | ||
| 12:45 | Poster: Improved Cleanup and Decoding of Fractional Power Encodings Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065861 | Alicia Bremer (University of Waterloo) | |
| 12:47 | Poster: "Comply: Learning Sentences with Complex Weights inspired by Fruit Fly Olfaction" Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11064982 | Alexei Gustavo Figueroa Rosero (Berliner Hochschule Fuer Technik) | |
| 12:49 | Poster: Multi-timescale synaptic plasticity on analog neuromorphic hardware Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065914 | Amani Atoui (Heidelberg University) | |
| 12:51 | Poster: Threshold Adaptation in Spiking Networks Enables Shortest Path Finding and Place Disambiguation Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065806 | Robin Dietrich (Technical University of Munich) | |
| 12:53 | Poster: Never Reset Again: A Mathematical Framework for Continual Inference in Recurrent Neural Networks Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065065 | Bojian Yin (TUE) | |
| 12:55 | Poster: A feedback control optimizer for online and hardware-aware training of Spiking Neural Networks Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065428 | Matteo Saponati (Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH/UZH)) | |
| 12:57 | Poster: Working in Progress: 3D hand tracking for Extended Reality | Zhen Xu (Leiden University) | |
| 12:59 | Poster: Dedicated Class Sub-networks for SNN Class-Incremental Learning Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11064919 | Katy Warr (University of Southampton) | |
| 13:01 | Poster: VIBE: Enhancing Unsupervised Continual Learning with Autonomous Novelty Detection Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065777 | Balachandran Swaminathan (Pennsylvania State University) | |
| 13:03 | Poster: A Grid-Cell-Inspired Structured Vector Algebra for Cognitive Maps Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065704 | Sven Krauße (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH) | |
| Info: There is more, much more -- list of the posters | |||
| 13:05 | Poster-lunch | ||
| Session chair: Sebastian Billaudelle | |||
| 14:05 | Invited talk: 28nm Embedded RRAM for Consumer and Industrial Products: Enabling, Design, and Reliability show presentation.pdf (public accessible) video (restricted access) | Jan Otterstedt (Infineon Technologies AG) | |
| 14:35 | Special session: Late breaking news App/HW | ||
| 14:35 | Late breaking news Event-based Delay Learning and Cross-platform In-the-loop Training for Neuromorphic Hardware show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Florian Fischer (Heidelberg University) | |
| 14:40 | Late breaking news Visual coding of SNNs - with Norse and NEST Desktop show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Sebastian Spreizer (University Trier) | |
| 14:45 | Late breaking news Neuromorphic Computing through a Heterogeneous Photonic-Electronic Architecture | Matej Hejda (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | |
| 14:50 | Late breaking news Solving sparse finite element problems on neuromorphic hardware show talk video | Bradley Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 14:55 | Q & A to the four late-breaking news talks | ||
| 15:10 | Integrating programmable plasticity in experiment descriptions for analog neuromorphic hardware show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065886 | Philipp Spilger (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University) | |
| 15:40 | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair and open-mic moderator: Sunny Bains | |||
| 16:10 | Invited talk: Robust Computation with Neuronal Heterogeneity show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Christian Tetzlaff (University Medical Center Göttingen) | |
| 16:40 | Efficient Deployment of Spiking Neural Networks on SpiNNaker2 for DVS Gesture Recognition Using Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065119 | Sirine Arfa (Technical University of Dresden - TU Dresden) | |
| 17:10 | Open mic / discussion -- day I speakers | ||
| 18:15 | Dinner | ||
| Wednesday, 26 March 2025 | |||
| 09:00 | NICE 2025 - day 2 | ||
| Session chair: Eric Müller | |||
| 09:00 | Invited talk: What can AI learn from the brain? Past, Present and Future show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Simon Thorpe (CNRS) | |
| 09:30 | State-Space Model Inspired Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Spiking Neurons show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065909 | Sanja Karilanova (Uppsala University) | |
| 10:00 | Invited talk: Neuromorphic Principles for Self-Attention | Emre Neftci (Forschungszentrum Juelich) | |
| 10:30 | Special session: late-breaking news: ML Theory Session | ||
| 10:30 | Late breaking news Weight transport through spike timing for robust local gradients show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Timo Gierlich (University of Bern) | |
| 10:35 | Late breaking news: Backpropagation through space, time, and the brain show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Benjamin Ellenberger (University of Bern) | |
| 10:40 | Late breaking news: Sparse Convolutional Recurrent Learning for Efficient Event-base Neuromorphic Object Detection show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Guangzhi Tang (Maastricht University) | |
| 10:45 | Q & A to the three late-breaking news talks | ||
| 10:55 | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair: Steve Furber | |||
| 11:25 | Invited talk: A new direction for continual learning: ask not just where to go, also how to get there show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Gido van de Ven (KU Leuven) | |
| 11:55 | Deep activity propagation via weight initialization in spiking neural networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065883 | Aurora Micheli (TU Delft) | |
| 12:10 | Eventprop training for efficient neuromorphic applications show presentation.pdf (public accessible) video (restricted access) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11064940 | Thomas Shoesmith (University of Sussex) | |
| 12:25 | Event-based backpropagation on the neuromorphic platform SpiNNaker2 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065716 | Gabriel Béna (Imperial College London) | |
| 12:40 | Special session: late-breaking news: Delay Session | ||
| 12:40 | Late breaking news: Three Factor Delay Learning Rules for Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Luke Vassallo (Institut für Technische Informatik (ZITI)) | |
| 12:45 | Late breaking news: DelGrad: Exact event-based gradients in spiking networks for training delays and weights show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Jimmy Weber (Institute of Neuroinformatics) | |
| 12:50 | Late breaking news Efficient Event-based Delay Learning in Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Balázs Mészáros (University of Sussex) | |
| 12:55 | Q & A to the three late-breaking news talks | ||
| 13:05 | Poster-lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Session chair: Suma Cardwell | ||
| 14:00 | Hardware architecture and routing-aware training for optimal memory usage: a case study show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065267 | Jimmy Weber (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
| 14:30 | Short-reach Optical Communication: A Real-world Task for Neuromorphic Hardware show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065780 | Eike-Manuel Edelmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Communications Engineering Lab (CEL)) | |
| 14:45 | Retina-Inspired Object Motion Segmentation for Event-Cameras show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065149 | Victoria Clerico (IBM Research Zürich) | |
| 15:00 | Invited talk: The Spiking Neural Processor: mixed-signal MCU for power constrained tiny ML applications show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Rui Teixeira (Innatera) | |
| 15:30 | Group photo | ||
| 15:35 | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair and open-mic moderator: Brad Aimone | |||
| 16:05 | FeNN: A RISC-V vector processor for Spiking Neural Network acceleration show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065891 | Zainab Aizaz (University of Sussex), James Knight (University of Sussex) | |
| 16:35 | Recent Nature paper on NC at scale withTHOr as an example. | Catherine Schuman (University of Tennessee) | |
| 16:50 | Invited talk: Memristive valence change memory cross-bar arrays for neuro-inspired data processing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Regina Dittmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH) | |
| 17:20 | Open mic / discussion - day II speakers | ||
| 18:20 | Conference dinner | ||
| Thursday, 27 March 2025 | |||
| 08:59 | NICE 2025 - day 3 | ||
| 08:59 | Announcement: Questionnaire on the neuromorphic field | Matteo Saponati (Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH/UZH)) | |
| 09:00 | Session chair: Andreas Grübl | ||
| 09:00 | The state of NeuroBench show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Jason Yik (Harvard University) | |
| 09:15 | OctopuScheduler: On-Chip DNN Scheduling on the SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic MPSoC show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065866 | Tim Langer (TU Dresden) | |
| 09:30 | Special session: late-breaking news Bio Theory | ||
| 09:30 | Late breaking news ELiSe: Efficient Learning of Sequences in Structured Recurrent Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Ben von Hünerbein (University of Bern) | |
| 09:35 | Late breaking news Co-Designed Neuromorphic Circuits for Local Dendritic learning | Maryada (Institute of Neuroinformatics) | |
| 09:40 | Late breaking news Switching dynamics of working memory. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Ghanendra Singh (TU Graz, Austria) | |
| 09:45 | Q & A to the three late-breaking news talks | ||
| 09:55 | Heterogenous Population Encoding for Multi-joint Regression using sEMG signals show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065840 | Farah Baracat (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
| 10:10 | Realtime-Capable Hybrid Spiking Neural Networks for Neural Decoding of Cortical Activity show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065180 | Jann Krausse (Infineon Technologies) | |
| 10:40 | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair: Sunny Bains | |||
| 11:10 | A Milling Swarm of Ground Robots using Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065293 | Kevin Zhu (George Mason University) | |
| 11:40 | Invited talk: A Neuroscience Perspective on Dendrites for Neuromorphic Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Frances Chance (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 12:10 | Biologically-Inspired Representations for Adaptive Control with Spatial Semantic Pointers show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065084 | Graeme Damberger (University of Waterloo) | |
| 12:25 | A Truly Sparse and General Implementation of Gradient-Based Synaptic Plasticity show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065510 | Jamie Lohoff (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session chair: Catherine Schuman | |||
| 14:00 | Evolution at the Edge: Real-Time Evolution for Neuromorphic Engine Control show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065602 | Karan Patel (University of Tennessee Knoxville) | |
| 14:30 | The Spatial Effect of the Pinna for Neuromorphic Speech Denoising show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065299 | Ranganath Selagamsetty (University of Wisconsin - Madison) | |
| 14:45 | Invited talk: Merging insights from artificial and biological neural networks for neuromorphic edge intelligence show presentation.pdf (public accessible) video (restricted access) | Charlotte Frenkel (Delft University of Technology) | |
| 15:15 | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair and open-mic moderator: Brad Aimone | |||
| 15:45 | The Young Neuromorphs initiative (https://www.linkedin.com/company/young-neuromorphs) show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Nassim Beladel (Delft University of Technology) | |
| 16:00 | A Diagonal Structured State Space Model on Loihi 2 for Efficient Streaming Sequence Processing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065663 | Weidel, Philipp (Intel Labs) | |
| 16:30 | Open mic / discussion - day III speakers | ||
| 17:30 | Goodbye | Johannes Schemmel (uhei) | |
| 18:00 | End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2025 | ||
| Friday, 28 March 2025 | |||
| 09:00 | NICE 2025 - tutorial day | ||
| Tutorial: Accelerated Neuromorphic Computing on BrainScaleS show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Amani Atoui (Heidelberg University) | ||
| Tutorial: Development and Deployment of SNNs on FPGA for Embedded Applications show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Brian Pachideh (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Sven Nitzsche (FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik) | ||
| Tutorial: NEST Simulator as a neuromorphic prototyping platform | Dennis Terhorst (IAS-6, Forschungszentrum Jülich), Charl Linssen (Jülich Research Centre) | ||
| Tutorial: NeuroBench show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Jason Yik (Harvard) | ||
| Tutorial: Neuromorphic Control for Autonomous Driving show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Elishai Ezra Tsur (The Open University of Israel) | ||
| Tutorial: Running SNNs on SpiNNaker show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Andrew Rowley (U Manchester) | ||
| Tutorial: SpiNNaker2 Tutorial: Beyond Neural Simulation show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Bernhard Vogginger (TU Dresden), Florian Feiler (SpiNNcloud Systems GmbH), Mahmoud Akl (SpiNNcloud Systems) | ||
| 09:00 | Tutorials | ||
| 09:00 | Tutorial slot I | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Tutorial slot II | ||
| 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:15 | Tutorial slot III | ||
| 16:15 | End of NICE 2025 | ||