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NICE 2025 - Agenda
(show all abstracts)| Tuesday, 25 March 2025 | |||
| 08:30 | NICE 2025VenueEuropean Institute for Neuromorphic Computing (EINC), Airports
Train stationHeidelberg Main Station (Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof, use bahn.de for time table information) From Heidelberg Main station to the institute:
Time zoneThe times in the agenda are in Central European Time CET (e.g. Europe, Berlin or Paris). Some other time zones: America, Australia, Europe, Japan, China, India, ... or only CET .) | ||
| 08:30‑09:00 (30 min) | Registration (with some coffee but no breakfast) | ||
| Session chair: Johannes Schemmel | |||
| 09:00‑09:15 (15+5 min) | NICE 2025 : opening and welcome | Markus Oberthaler (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics) | |
| 09:20‑10:05 (45+5 min) | Organisers round | NICE organisers committee members | |
| 10:10‑10:55 (45+5 min) | Keynote: Toward a formal semantics for neuromorphic computing theory show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Herbert Jäger (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) | |
| 11:00‑11:30 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair: Mihai Petrovici | |||
| 11:30‑11:55 (25+5 min) | Exploring Spike Encoder Designs for Near-Sensor Edge Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Jingang Jin, Zhenhang Zhang and Qinru Qiu | Qinru Qiu (Syracuse University) | |
| 12:00‑12:10 (10+5 min) | A LIF-based Legendre Memory Unit as neuromorphic State Space Model benchmarked on a second-long spatio-temporal task show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Benedetto Leto, Gianvito Urgese, Enrico Macii and Vittorio Fra | Vittorio Fra (Politecnico di Torino) | |
| 12:15‑12:40 (25+5 min) | Demonstrating the Advantages of Analog Wafer-Scale Neuromorphic Hardware show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show abstract | Eric Müller (uhei) | |
| 12:45 | 10 Poster teasers 1 min "poster teasers" for 10 selected posters. | ||
| 12:45 (1+1 min) | Poster: Improved Cleanup and Decoding of Fractional Power Encodings | Alicia Bremer (University of Waterloo) | |
| 12:47 (1+1 min) | Poster: "Comply: Learning Sentences with Complex Weights inspired by Fruit Fly Olfaction" | Alexei Gustavo Figueroa Rosero (Berliner Hochschule Fuer Technik) | |
| 12:49 (1+1 min) | Poster: Multi-timescale synaptic plasticity on analog neuromorphic hardware | Amani Atoui (Heidelberg University) | |
| 12:51 (1+1 min) | Poster: Threshold Adaptation in Spiking Networks Enables Shortest Path Finding and Place Disambiguation | Robin Dietrich (Technical University of Munich) | |
| 12:53 (1+1 min) | Poster: Never Reset Again: A Mathematical Framework for Continual Inference in Recurrent Neural Networks | Bojian Yin (TUE) | |
| 12:55 (1+1 min) | Poster: A feedback control optimizer for online and hardware-aware training of Spiking Neural Networks | Matteo Saponati (Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH/UZH)) | |
| 12:57 (1+1 min) | Poster: Working in Progress: 3D hand tracking for Extended Reality | Zhen Xu (Leiden University) | |
| 12:59 (1+1 min) | Poster: Dedicated Class Sub-networks for SNN Class-Incremental Learning | Katy Warr (University of Southampton) | |
| 13:01 (1+1 min) | Poster: VIBE: Enhancing Unsupervised Continual Learning with Autonomous Novelty Detection | Balachandran Swaminathan (Pennsylvania State University) | |
| 13:03 (1 min) | Poster: A Grid-Cell-Inspired Structured Vector Algebra for Cognitive Maps | Sven Krauße (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH) | |
(1 min) | Info: There is more, much more -- list of the posters | ||
| 13:05‑14:05 (60 min) | Poster-lunch | ||
| Session chair: Sebastian Billaudelle | |||
| 14:05‑14:30 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: 28nm Embedded RRAM for Consumer and Industrial Products: Enabling, Design, and Reliability show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Jan Otterstedt (Infineon Technologies AG) | |
| 14:35 | Special session: Late breaking news App/HW | ||
| 14:35‑14:40 (5 min) | Late breaking news Event-based Delay Learning and Cross-platform In-the-loop Training for Neuromorphic Hardware | Florian Fischer | |
| 14:40‑14:45 (5 min) | Late breaking news Visual coding of SNNs - with Norse and NEST Desktop | Sebastian Spreizer (University Trier) | |
| 14:45‑14:50 (5 min) | Late breaking news Neuromorphic Computing through a Heterogeneous Photonic-Electronic Architecture | Matej Hejda (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | |
| 14:50‑14:55 (5 min) | Late breaking news Solving sparse finite element problems on neuromorphic hardware | Bradley Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 14:55‑15:10 (15 min) | Q & A to the four late-breaking news talks | ||
| 15:10‑15:35 (25+5 min) | Integrating programmable plasticity in experiment descriptions for analog neuromorphic hardware Philipp Spilger, Eric Müller and Johannes Schemmel | Philipp Spilger (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University) | |
| 15:40‑16:10 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair and open-mic moderator: Sunny Bains | |||
| 16:10‑16:35 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Robust Computation with Neuronal Heterogeneity | Christian Tetzlaff (University Medical Center Göttingen) | |
| 16:40‑17:05 (25+5 min) | Efficient Deployment of Spiking Neural Networks on SpiNNaker2 for DVS Gesture Recognition Using Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Sirine Arfa, Bernhard Vogginger, Chen Liu, Johannes Partzsch, Mark Schöne and Christian Mayr | Sirine Arfa (Technical University of Dresden - TU Dresden) | |
| 17:10‑18:10 (60 min) | Open mic / discussion -- day I speakers | ||
| 18:15‑20:15 (120 min) | Dinner | ||
| Wednesday, 26 March 2025 | |||
| 09:00 | NICE 2025 - day 2 | ||
| Session chair: Eric Müller | |||
| 09:00‑09:25 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: What can AI learn from the brain? Past, Present and Future show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Simon Thorpe (CNRS) | |
| 09:30‑09:55 (25+5 min) | State-Space Model Inspired Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Spiking Neurons show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Sanja Karilanova, Subhrakanti Dey and Ayça Özçelikkale | Sanja Karilanova (Uppsala University) | |
| 10:00‑10:25 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Neuromorphic Principles for Self-Attention | Emre Neftci (Forschungszentrum Juelich) | |
| 10:30 | Special session: late-breaking news: ML Theory Session | ||
| 10:30‑10:35 (5 min) | Late breaking news Weight transport through spike timing for robust local gradients show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Timo Gierlich (University of Bern) | |
| 10:35‑10:40 (5 min) | Late breaking news: Backpropagation through space, time, and the brain | Benjamin Ellenberger (University of Bern) | |
| 10:40‑10:45 (5 min) | Late breaking news: Sparse Convolutional Recurrent Learning for Efficient Event-base Neuromorphic Object Detection show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Guangzhi Tang (Maastricht University) | |
| 10:45‑10:55 (10 min) | Q & A to the three late-breaking news talks | ||
| 10:55‑11:25 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair: Steve Furber | |||
| 11:25‑11:50 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: A new direction for continual learning: ask not just where to go, also how to get there show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Gido van de Ven (KU Leuven) | |
| 11:55‑12:05 (10+5 min) | Deep activity propagation via weight initialization in spiking neural networks Aurora Micheli, Olaf Booij, Jan van Gemert and Nergis Tömen | Aurora Micheli (TU Delft) | |
| 12:10‑12:20 (10+5 min) | Eventprop training for efficient neuromorphic applications Thomas Shoesmith, James Knight, Balazs Meszaros, Jonathan Timcheck and Thomas Nowotny | Thomas Shoesmith (University of Sussex) | |
| 12:25‑12:35 (10+5 min) | Event-based backpropagation on the neuromorphic platform SpiNNaker2 Gabriel Béna, Timo Wunderlich, Mahmoud Akl, Bernhard Vogginger, Christian Mayr and Hector Andres Gonzalez | Gabriel Béna (Imperial College London) | |
| 12:40 | Special session: late-breaking news: Delay Session | ||
| 12:40‑12:45 (5 min) | Late breaking news: Three Factor Delay Learning Rules for Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Luke Vassallo (Institut für Technische Informatik (ZITI)) | |
| 12:45‑12:50 (5 min) | Late breaking news: DelGrad: Exact event-based gradients in spiking networks for training delays and weights | Jimmy Weber (Institute of Neuroinformatics) | |
| 12:50‑12:55 (5 min) | Late breaking news Efficient Event-based Delay Learning in Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Balázs Mészáros (University of Sussex) | |
| 12:55‑13:05 (10 min) | Q & A to the three late-breaking news talks | ||
| 13:05‑14:00 (55 min) | Poster-lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Session chair: Suma Cardwell | ||
| 14:00‑14:25 (25+5 min) | Hardware architecture and routing-aware training for optimal memory usage: a case study Jimmy Weber, Theo Ballet and Melika Payvand | Jimmy Weber (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
| 14:30‑14:40 (10+5 min) | Short-reach Optical Communication: A Real-world Task for Neuromorphic Hardware Elias Arnold, Eike-Manuel Edelmann, Alexander von Bank, Eric Müller, Laurent Schmalen and Johannes Schemmel | Eike-Manuel Edelmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Communications Engineering Lab (CEL)) | |
| 14:45‑14:55 (10+5 min) | Retina-Inspired Object Motion Segmentation for Event-Cameras show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Victoria Clerico, Shay Snyder, Arya Lohia, Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser, Gregory Schwartz, Akhilesh Jaiswal and Maryam Parsa | Victoria Clerico (IBM Research Zürich) | |
| 15:00‑15:25 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: The Spiking Neural Processor: mixed-signal MCU for power constrained tiny ML applications | Rui Teixeira (Innatera) | |
| 15:30‑15:35 (5 min) | Group photo
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| 15:35‑16:05 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair and open-mic moderator: Brad Aimone | |||
| 16:05‑16:30 (25+5 min) | FeNN: A RISC-V vector processor for Spiking Neural Network acceleration Zainab Aizaz, James Knight and Thomas Nowotny | Zainab Aizaz (University of Sussex), James Knight (University of Sussex) | |
| 16:35‑16:45 (10+5 min) | Recent Nature paper on NC at scale withTHOr as an example. | Catherine Schuman (University of Tennessee) | |
| 16:50‑17:15 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Memristive valence change memory cross-bar arrays for neuro-inspired data processing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Regina Dittmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH) | |
| 17:20‑18:20 (60 min) | Open mic / discussion - day II speakers | ||
| 18:20‑20:20 (120 min) | Conference dinner | ||
| Thursday, 27 March 2025 | |||
| 08:59 | NICE 2025 - day 3 | ||
| 08:59 (1 min) | Announcement: Questionnaire on the neuromorphic field | Matteo Saponati (Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH/UZH)) | |
| 09:00 | Session chair: Andreas Grübl | ||
| 09:00‑09:10 (10+5 min) | The state of NeuroBench show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Jason Yik (Harvard University) | |
| 09:15‑09:25 (10+5 min) | OctopuScheduler: On-Chip DNN Scheduling on the SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic MPSoC Tim Langer, Matthias Jobst, Chen Liu, Florian Kelber, Bernhard Vogginger and Christian Mayr | Tim Langer (TU Dresden) | |
| 09:30 | Special session: late-breaking news Bio Theory | ||
| 09:30‑09:35 (5 min) | Late breaking news ELiSe: Efficient Learning of Sequences in Structured Recurrent Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Ben von Hünerbein (University of Bern) | |
| 09:35‑09:40 (5 min) | Late breaking news Co-Designed Neuromorphic Circuits for Local Dendritic learning | Maryada (Institute of Neuroinformatics) | |
| 09:40‑09:45 (5 min) | Late breaking news Switching dynamics of working memory. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Ghanendra Singh (TU Graz, Austria) | |
| 09:45‑09:55 (10 min) | Q & A to the three late-breaking news talks | ||
| 09:55‑10:05 (10+5 min) | Heterogenous Population Encoding for Multi-joint Regression using sEMG signals Farah Baracat, Luca Manneschi and Elisa Donati | Farah Baracat (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
| 10:10‑10:35 (25+5 min) | Realtime-Capable Hybrid Spiking Neural Networks for Neural Decoding of Cortical Activity Jann Krausse, Alexandru Vasilache, Klaus Knobloch and Juergen Becker | Jann Krausse (Infineon Technologies) | |
| 10:40‑11:10 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair: Sunny Bains | |||
| 11:10‑11:35 (25+5 min) | A Milling Swarm of Ground Robots using Spiking Neural Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Kevin Zhu, Shay Snyder, Ricardo Vega, Maryam Parsa and Cameron Nowzari | Kevin Zhu (George Mason University) | |
| 11:40‑12:05 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: A Neuroscience Perspective on Dendrites for Neuromorphic Computing show abstract | Frances Chance (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 12:10‑12:20 (10+5 min) | Biologically-Inspired Representations for Adaptive Control with Spatial Semantic Pointers Graeme Damberger, Kathryn Simone, Chandan Datta, Ram Eshwar Kaundinya, Juan Escareno and Chris Eliasmith | Graeme Damberger (University of Waterloo) | |
| 12:25‑12:50 (25+5 min) | A Truly Sparse and General Implementation of Gradient-Based Synaptic Plasticity Jamie Lohoff, Anil Kaya, Florian Assmuth and Emre Neftci | Jamie Lohoff (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | |
| 13:00‑14:00 (60 min) | Lunch | ||
| Session chair: Catherine Schuman | |||
| 14:00‑14:25 (25+5 min) | Evolution at the Edge: Real-Time Evolution for Neuromorphic Engine Control Karan Patel, Ethan Maness, Tyler Nitzsche, Emma Brown, Brett Witherspoon, Aaron Young, Bryan Maldonado, Brian Kaul and Catherine Schuman | Karan Patel (University of Tennessee Knoxville) | |
| 14:30‑14:40 (10+5 min) | The Spatial Effect of the Pinna for Neuromorphic Speech Denoising Ranganath Selagamsetty, Joshua San Miguel and Mikko Lipasti | Ranganath Selagamsetty (University of Wisconsin - Madison) | |
| 14:45‑15:10 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Merging insights from artificial and biological neural networks for neuromorphic edge intelligence | Charlotte Frenkel (Delft University of Technology) | |
| 15:15‑15:45 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| Session chair and open-mic moderator: Brad Aimone | |||
| 15:45‑15:55 (10+5 min) | The Young Neuromorphs initiative (https://www.linkedin.com/company/young-neuromorphs) | Nassim Beladel (Delft University of Technology) | |
| 16:00‑16:25 (25+5 min) | A Diagonal Structured State Space Model on Loihi 2 for Efficient Streaming Sequence Processing Svea Marie Meyer, Philipp Weidel, Philipp Plank, Leobardo Leobardo Campos-Macias, Sumit Bam Shreshta, Philipp Stratmann, Jonathan Timcheck and Mathis Richter | Weidel, Philipp (Intel Labs) | |
| 16:30‑17:30 (60 min) | Open mic / discussion - day III speakers | ||
| 17:30‑17:35 (5+5 min) | Goodbye | ||
| 18:00 | End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2025 | ||