| Tuesday, 24 March 2026 | |||
| 08:30 | NICE 2026 - day I | ||
| 08:30 | Registration and coffee | ||
| 09:00 | Session chair: Brad Aimone | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome to NICE 2026 | Jennifer Hasler (Georgia Institute of Technology) | |
| 09:10 | NICE organisers round | (The NICE organisers) | |
| 09:55 | Keynote: Infrastructure for Neuromorphic System Design show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Rajit Manohar (Yale) | |
| 10:25 | Coffee break | ||
| 10:55 | Memory Trade-Offs in Neuromorphic Communication Strategies of the FlyWire Connectome on Loihi 2 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Felix Wang (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 11:25 | Local host talk: Advancing Neuromorphic Hardware using Recent Advancements in Analog Computing & Tools show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Jennifer Hasler (Georgia Institute of Technology) | |
| 11:55 | Poster teasers | ||
| 11:55 | Poster: Fuzzy Encoding-Decoding to Improve Spiking Q-Learning Performance in Autonomous Driving | Aref Ghoreishee (Drexel University) | |
| 11:57 | Poster: SimScore: A Similarity Score for Spiking Neurons | Sounak Dey (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd) | |
| 11:59 | Zoran Utkovski (Fraunhofer HHI) | ||
| 12:01 | Poster: NeuroHex: Highly-Efficient Hex Coordinate System for Creating World Models to Enable Adaptive AI | Quinn Jacobson (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| 12:03 | Poster: From Spikes to Swarms: Evolving Spiking Neural Networks to Create Emergent Swarm Behaviors | Shay Snyder (George Mason University) | |
| 12:05 | Poster: Spiking Value Iteration for Solving Markov Decision Processes on Neuromorphic Hardware | Sarah Luca (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 12:07 | Effiong Blessing (Project phasor/Saint louis university) | ||
| 12:09 | Poster: Generalized multi-object classification and tracking with sparse feature resonator networks. | Paxon Frady (Intel) | |
| 12:11 | Poster: NEUKRAG: NEUROMORPHIC KG–RAG WITH SMALL LLMS for Hardware–Algorithm Co-Design | Ramakrishnan Kannan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | |
| 12:15 | Poster lunch | ||
| 13:45 | Session chair: Luke Hanks , Johannes Schemmel | ||
| 13:45 | A Compute and Communication Runtime Model for Loihi 2 | Jonathan Timcheck (Intel) | |
| 14:15 | Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons as Differentiable Units for Scientific Machine Learning show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Ruyin Wan (Brown University) | |
| 14:30 | Group photo | ||
| 14:45 | Break | ||
| 15:15 | The Neuromorphic Commons (THOR) Goes Live: Phase 1 Challenge Launch | Dhireesha Kudithipudi (UT San Antonio) | |
| 15:40 | Open mic session | ||
| 16:30 | End of day I | ||
| Wednesday, 25 March 2026 | |||
| 08:30 | NICE 2026 - day II | ||
| 08:30 | Session chair: Catherine Lacy , Suma Cardwell | ||
| 08:30 | Delayed start | ||
| 08:45 | Keynote: Training SNNs with exact gradients: Progress and Challenges show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex) | |
| 09:15 | On the Status, Requirements, and Expectations of Neuro-Inspired High-Performance Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Johannes Gebert (High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany) | |
| 09:30 | The BrainScaleS-2 multi-chip system: Interconnecting continuous-time neuromorphic compute substrates | Joscha Ilmberger (Heidelberg University) | |
| 10:00 | Multi-Timescale Conductance Spiking Networks: A Sparse, Gradient-Trainable Framework with Rich Firing Dynamics for Enhanced Temporal Processing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Alex Fulleda-Garcia (IMB-CNM-CSIC, Spain) | |
| 10:15 | Message from a program manager from Army Research Labs show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Chou Hung (Army Research Office (ARO)) | |
| 10:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 10:45 | Privacy-preserving fall detection at the edge using Sony IMX636 event-based vision sensor and Intel Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Lyes Khacef (Sony Advanced Visual Sensing) | |
| 11:15 | Training Spiking Neural Networks on Multi-chip Analog Neuromorphic Hardware | Yannik Stradmann (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg), Joscha Ilmberger (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg) | |
| 11:30 | Critical Spike Attribution for Feature Importance in Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Jack Klawitter (Rutgers University) | |
| 12:00 | Predicting Price Movements in High-Frequency Financial Data with Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Brian Ezinwoke (University College London) | |
| 12:15 | Poster lunch | ||
| 13:30 | Sesssion chair: Connor White, Ashish Gautam | ||
| 13:30 | Real-time processing of analog signals on accelerated neuromorphic hardware | Yannik Stradmann (Institute of Computer Engineering, Heidelberg University, Germany) | |
| 14:00 | DARWIN: Hardware Efficient Analog In-Memory Computing Using Dendritic ARborized Weights In Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Ming-Jay Yang (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) | |
| 14:30 | ICONS announcement | Prasanna Date (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | |
| 14:31 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:00 | Intrinsic Numerical Robustness and Fault Tolerance in a Neuromorphic Algorithm for Scientific Computing | Bradley Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 15:30 | Neuromorphic Eye Tracking for Low-Latency Pupil Detection show presentation.pdf (public accessible) video (restricted access) | Oliver Rhodes (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) | |
| 15:45 | Open mic session | ||
| 16:30 | End of day II | ||
| Thursday, 26 March 2026 | |||
| 08:00 | NICE 2026 - day III | ||
| 08:30 | Session chair: Pranav Mathews , Felix Wang | ||
| 08:30 | Delayed start | ||
| 08:45 | Keynote: REM-like Consolidation: Same Performance, Sparser Representations show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Maxim Bazhenov (University of California, San Diego) | |
| 09:15 | Predicting band-gap of Inorganic Materials using Neuromorphic Graph Learning show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Ian Mulet (University of Tennessee Knoxville) | |
| 09:30 | A principled procedure for designing brain-derived SWaP optimized neuronal units for low-power neuromorphic analog computation and digital communication. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Chad Harper (UC Berkeley) | |
| 09:45 | Coffee break | ||
| 10:15 | δ Multiplexed Gradient Descent: Perturbative Learning with Astrocytes show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Nicholas Skuda (NIST Boulder) | |
| 10:30 | NeuroCoreX: An Open-Source FPGA-Based Spiking Neural Network Emulator with On-Chip Learning | Ashish Gautam (Oak Ridge National Lab) | |
| 10:45 | Fully Spiking Linear Quadratic Regulator Control via a Neuromorphic Solver for the Continuous Algebraic Riccati Equation show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Graeme Damberger (University of Waterloo) | |
| 11:15 | Amortized Inference of Neuron Parameters on Analog Neuromorphic Hardware show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Jakob Kaiser (Institute of Computer Engineering, Heidelberg University, Germany) | |
| 11:30 | Training event-based neural networks with exact gradients via Differentiable ODE Solving in JAX show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Lukas König (University of Bielefeld) | |
| 12:00 | Break for lunch (food provided) | ||
| 13:00 | Session chair: Praveen Raj, Brad Theilman | ||
| 13:00 | Late breaking news: Bridging Neuromorphic and Traditional Computing Performance: An Information-Theoretic Approach show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Max Hawkins (Georgia Institute of Technology) | |
| 13:15 | Late breaking news: NOVA: Real-Time Visualization and Streaming for Neuromorphic Event Cameras | David Mascarenas (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | |
| 13:30 | Hardware-Algorithm Co-design for On-Chip SNN: SOLO(Spatial Online Learning at Once) with analog flash device | Sungmin Lee (Seoul National University) | |
| 13:45 | Graph Reservoir Networks for Prediction of Spatiotemporal Systems | William Chapman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 14:15 | Dynamic Heuristic Neuromorphic Solver for the Edge User Allocation Problem with Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video | Ahsan Javed Awan (Ericsson) | |
| 14:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:00 | VS-Graph: Scalable and Efficient Graph Classification Using Hyperdimensional Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Hamed Poursiami (George Mason University) | |
| 15:30 | Tutorial day information and messages from the local host | Jennifer Hasler (Georgia Institute of Technology) | |
| 15:40 | NICE 2027 | Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex) | |
| 15:45 | Open mic session | ||
| 16:30 | End of the NICE 2026 cxonference part | ||