NICE 2024 - Agenda
(show all abstracts)Tuesday, 23 April 2024 | |||
PDT: 08:00 UTC: 15:00 WAT: 16:00 CAT: 17:00 EAT: 18:00 | NICE 2024-- day 1NICE 2024RegistrationFor registration, please see the registration options and link to the registration form. Venue
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PDT: 08:00 UTC: 15:00 WAT: 16:00 CAT: 17:00 EAT: 18:00 | NICE 2024 agendaTimes listed are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). It is also possible to show the agenda with other time zones listed, which are relevant for: Africa, America, Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan | ||
PDT: 08:00‑08:30 UTC: 15:00‑15:30 WAT: 16:00‑16:30 CAT: 17:00‑17:30 EAT: 18:00‑18:30 (30 min) | Registration and breakfast | ||
PDT: 08:30‑08:45 UTC: 15:30‑15:45 WAT: 16:30‑16:45 CAT: 17:30‑17:45 EAT: 18:30‑18:45 (15+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 08:50‑09:35 UTC: 15:50‑16:35 WAT: 16:50‑17:35 CAT: 17:50‑18:35 EAT: 18:50‑19:35 (45+5 min) | Organisers round | Members of the organising committees | |
PDT: 09:40‑10:25 UTC: 16:40‑17:25 WAT: 17:40‑18:25 CAT: 18:40‑19:25 EAT: 19:40‑20:25 (45+5 min) | Keynote: Brains and AI | Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) | |
PDT: 10:30‑11:00 UTC: 17:30‑18:00 WAT: 18:30‑19:00 CAT: 19:30‑20:00 EAT: 20:30‑21:00 (30 min) | Break | ||
PDT: 11:00‑11:25 UTC: 18:00‑18:25 WAT: 19:00‑19:25 CAT: 20:00‑20:25 EAT: 21:00‑21:25 (25+5 min) | Biological Dynamics Enabling Training of Binary Recurrent Networks show talk video | William Chapman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
PDT: 11:30‑11:40 UTC: 18:30‑18:40 WAT: 19:30‑19:40 CAT: 20:30‑20:40 EAT: 21:30‑21:40 (10+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 11:45‑12:10 UTC: 18:45‑19:10 WAT: 19:45‑20:10 CAT: 20:45‑21:10 EAT: 21:45‑22:10 (25+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 12:15‑12:30 UTC: 19:15‑19:30 WAT: 20:15‑20:30 CAT: 21:15‑21:30 EAT: 22:15‑22:30 (15 min) | Poster teasers 1-min "this is my poster content" teasers
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PDT: 12:30‑14:00 UTC: 19:30‑21:00 WAT: 20:30‑22:00 CAT: 21:30‑23:00 EAT: 22:30‑00:00 (90 min) | Poster-lunch (posters + finger food)
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PDT: 14:00‑14:25 UTC: 21:00‑21:25 WAT: 22:00‑22:25 CAT: 23:00‑23:25 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 00:00‑00:25 (25+5 min) | SQUAT: Stateful Quantization-Aware Training in Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks | Sreyes Venkatesh (UC Santa Cruz) | |
PDT: 14:30‑14:40 UTC: 21:30‑21:40 WAT: 22:30‑22:40 CAT: 23:30‑23:40 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 00:30‑00:40 (10+5 min) | Expressive Dendrites in Spiking Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Mark Plagge (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
PDT: 14:45‑15:10 UTC: 21:45‑22:10 WAT: 22:45‑23:10 CAT: 23:45‑00:10 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 00:45‑01:10 (25+5 min) | Text-to-Events: Synthetic Event Camera Streams from Conditional Text Input | Shih-Chii Liu (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
PDT: 15:15‑15:45 UTC: 22:15‑22:45 WAT: 23:15‑23:45 CAT: Wed, 24 Apr 00:15‑00:45 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 01:15‑01:45 (30 min) | Break | ||
PDT: 15:45‑16:10 UTC: 22:45‑23:10 WAT: 23:45‑00:10 CAT: Wed, 24 Apr 00:45‑01:10 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 01:45‑02:10 (25+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 16:15‑17:00 UTC: 23:15‑00:00 WAT: Wed, 24 Apr 00:15‑01:00 CAT: Wed, 24 Apr 01:15‑02:00 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 02:15‑03:00 (45 min) | Open mic / discussion -- day I speakers | ||
PDT: 17:00‑17:30 UTC: Wed, 24 Apr 00:00‑00:30 WAT: Wed, 24 Apr 01:00‑01:30 CAT: Wed, 24 Apr 02:00‑02:30 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 03:00‑03:30 (30 min) | Misha Mahowald Prizes
| Tobi Delbruck (Inst. for Neuroinformatics, UZH-ETH Zurich) | |
PDT: 17:30‑18:00 UTC: Wed, 24 Apr 00:30‑01:00 WAT: Wed, 24 Apr 01:30‑02:00 CAT: Wed, 24 Apr 02:30‑03:00 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 03:30‑04:00 (30 min) | Misha Mahowald Prizes
| Carver Mead (California Institute of Technology) | |
PDT: 18:00‑19:00 UTC: Wed, 24 Apr 01:00‑02:00 WAT: Wed, 24 Apr 02:00‑03:00 CAT: Wed, 24 Apr 03:00‑04:00 EAT: Wed, 24 Apr 04:00‑05:00 (60 min) | Reception and celebration of 35+ years of neuromorphic engineering |
Wednesday, 24 April 2024 | |||
PDT: 08:00 UTC: 15:00 WAT: 16:00 CAT: 17:00 EAT: 18:00 | NICE 2024 - Day II | ||
PDT: 08:00‑08:30 UTC: 15:00‑15:30 WAT: 16:00‑16:30 CAT: 17:00‑17:30 EAT: 18:00‑18:30 (30 min) | Breakfast | ||
PDT: 08:30‑09:15 UTC: 15:30‑16:15 WAT: 16:30‑17:15 CAT: 17:30‑18:15 EAT: 18:30‑19:15 (45+5 min) | Keynote: Hearing with Silicon Cochleas | Shih-Chii Liu (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
PDT: 09:20‑09:30 UTC: 16:20‑16:30 WAT: 17:20‑17:30 CAT: 18:20‑18:30 EAT: 19:20‑19:30 (10+5 min) | Explaining Neural Spike Activity for Simulated Bio-plausible Network through Deep Sequence Learning | Shruti R Kulkarni (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | |
PDT: 09:35‑10:00 UTC: 16:35‑17:00 WAT: 17:35‑18:00 CAT: 18:35‑19:00 EAT: 19:35‑20:00 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Hardware Accelerators for Brain-Inspired Computing | John Arthur (IBM Research) | |
PDT: 10:05‑10:30 UTC: 17:05‑17:30 WAT: 18:05‑18:30 CAT: 19:05‑19:30 EAT: 20:05‑20:30 (25+5 min) | Hardware-aware Few-shot Learning on a Memristor-based Small-world Architecture show talk video | Karthik Charan Raghunathan (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and UZH Zurich) | |
PDT: 10:35‑11:05 UTC: 17:35‑18:05 WAT: 18:35‑19:05 CAT: 19:35‑20:05 EAT: 20:35‑21:05 (30 min) | Break | ||
PDT: 11:05‑11:30 UTC: 18:05‑18:30 WAT: 19:05‑19:30 CAT: 20:05‑20:30 EAT: 21:05‑21:30 (25+5 min) | Spiking Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Loihi-2 | Brad Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
PDT: 11:35‑11:45 UTC: 18:35‑18:45 WAT: 19:35‑19:45 CAT: 20:35‑20:45 EAT: 21:35‑21:45 (10+5 min) | jaxsnn: Event-driven Gradient Estimation for Analog Neuromorphic Hardware show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Eric Müller (BrainScaleS, Heidelberg University) | |
PDT: 11:50‑12:00 UTC: 18:50‑19:00 WAT: 19:50‑20:00 CAT: 20:50‑21:00 EAT: 21:50‑22:00 (10+5 min) | Late-breaking-news: Distributed Neural State Machines on Loihi 2 | Alpha Renner (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) | |
PDT: 12:05‑12:20 UTC: 19:05‑19:20 WAT: 20:05‑20:20 CAT: 21:05‑21:20 EAT: 22:05‑22:20 (15 min) | Poster teasers 1-min "this is my poster content" teasers
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PDT: 12:20‑12:30 UTC: 19:20‑19:30 WAT: 20:20‑20:30 CAT: 21:20‑21:30 EAT: 22:20‑22:30 (10 min) | Group photo | ||
PDT: 12:30‑14:00 UTC: 19:30‑21:00 WAT: 20:30‑22:00 CAT: 21:30‑23:00 EAT: 22:30‑00:00 (90 min) | Poster-lunch (posters + finger food)
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PDT: 14:00‑14:10 UTC: 21:00‑21:10 WAT: 22:00‑22:10 CAT: 23:00‑23:10 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:00‑00:10 (10+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 14:15‑14:40 UTC: 21:15‑21:40 WAT: 22:15‑22:40 CAT: 23:15‑23:40 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:15‑00:40 (25+5 min) | Compositional Factorization of Visual Scenes with Convolutional Sparse Coding and Resonator Networks | Chris Kymn (UC Berkeley), Sonia Mazelet (UC Berkeley) | |
PDT: 14:45‑14:55 UTC: 21:45‑21:55 WAT: 22:45‑22:55 CAT: 23:45‑23:55 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:45‑00:55 (10+5 min) | Towards Chip-in-the-loop Spiking Neural Network Training via Metropolis-Hastings Sampling show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Ali Safa (imec and KU Leuven) | |
PDT: 15:00‑15:10 UTC: 22:00‑22:10 WAT: 23:00‑23:10 CAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:00‑00:10 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 01:00‑01:10 (10+5 min) | Leveraging Sparsity of SRNNs for Reconfigurable and Resource-Efficient Network-on-Chip | Manu Rathore (TENNLab - Neuromorphic Architectures, Learning, Applications (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)) | |
PDT: 15:15‑15:45 UTC: 22:15‑22:45 WAT: 23:15‑23:45 CAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:15‑00:45 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 01:15‑01:45 (30 min) | Break | ||
PDT: 15:45‑16:10 UTC: 22:45‑23:10 WAT: 23:45‑00:10 CAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:45‑01:10 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 01:45‑02:10 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Towards fractional order dynamics neuromorphic elements show talk video | Fidel Santamaria (Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio) | |
PDT: 16:15‑16:25 UTC: 23:15‑23:25 WAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:15‑00:25 CAT: Thu, 25 Apr 01:15‑01:25 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 02:15‑02:25 (10+5 min) | Compute-in-Memory with 6T-RRAM Memristive Circuit for Next-Gen Neuromorphic Hardware | Kang Jun Bai (Air Force Research Laboratory) | |
PDT: 16:30‑17:30 UTC: 23:30‑00:30 WAT: Thu, 25 Apr 00:30‑01:30 CAT: Thu, 25 Apr 01:30‑02:30 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 02:30‑03:30 (60 min) | Open mic / discussion - day II speakers | ||
PDT: 17:30 UTC: Thu, 25 Apr 00:30 WAT: Thu, 25 Apr 01:30 CAT: Thu, 25 Apr 02:30 EAT: Thu, 25 Apr 03:30 | End of the second day |
Thursday, 25 April 2024 | |||
PDT: 08:00 UTC: 15:00 WAT: 16:00 CAT: 17:00 EAT: 18:00 | Day III | ||
PDT: 08:00‑08:30 UTC: 15:00‑15:30 WAT: 16:00‑16:30 CAT: 17:00‑17:30 EAT: 18:00‑18:30 (30 min) | Breakfast | ||
PDT: 08:30‑09:15 UTC: 15:30‑16:15 WAT: 16:30‑17:15 CAT: 17:30‑18:15 EAT: 18:30‑19:15 (45+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 09:20 UTC: 16:20 WAT: 17:20 CAT: 18:20 EAT: 19:20 | IEEE EMBS special session: forum on AI for health care | ||
PDT: 09:20‑09:25 UTC: 16:20‑16:25 WAT: 17:20‑17:25 CAT: 18:20‑18:25 EAT: 19:20‑19:25 (5 min) | Introduction to the IEEE EMBS special session: forum on AI for health care | Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego) | |
PDT: 09:25‑09:35 UTC: 16:25‑16:35 WAT: 17:25‑17:35 CAT: 18:25‑18:35 EAT: 19:25‑19:35 (10 min) | AI for healthcare show talk video | Margot Wagner (Salk Institute) | |
PDT: 09:35‑09:45 UTC: 16:35‑16:45 WAT: 17:35‑17:45 CAT: 18:35‑18:45 EAT: 19:35‑19:45 (10 min) | Boxes are pre-digital -- Discovering physiological diversity with AI show talk video | Benjamin Smarr (UC San Diego) | |
PDT: 09:45‑09:55 UTC: 16:45‑16:55 WAT: 17:45‑17:55 CAT: 18:45‑18:55 EAT: 19:45‑19:55 (10 min) | Organoid intelligence show talk video | Francesca Puppo (UC San Diego) | |
PDT: 09:55‑10:05 UTC: 16:55‑17:05 WAT: 17:55‑18:05 CAT: 18:55‑19:05 EAT: 19:55‑20:05 (10 min) | Health & AI: Flexible Engineered Learning Systems | Dr. Grace Hwang (NIH / NIND) | |
PDT: 10:05‑10:15 UTC: 17:05‑17:15 WAT: 18:05‑18:15 CAT: 19:05‑19:15 EAT: 20:05‑20:15 (10 min) | EMBS | Metin Akay (IEEE EMBS) | |
PDT: 10:20‑10:50 UTC: 17:20‑17:50 WAT: 18:20‑18:50 CAT: 19:20‑19:50 EAT: 20:20‑20:50 (30 min) | Break | ||
PDT: 10:50‑11:00 UTC: 17:50‑18:00 WAT: 18:50‑19:00 CAT: 19:50‑20:00 EAT: 20:50‑21:00 (10+5 min) | One-Shot Auditory Blind Source Separation via Local Learning in a Neuromorphic Network show talk video | Patrick Abbs (Cambrya, LLC) | |
PDT: 11:05‑11:30 UTC: 18:05‑18:30 WAT: 19:05‑19:30 CAT: 20:05‑20:30 EAT: 21:05‑21:30 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: TENN: A highly efficient transformer replacement for edge and event processing. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | M Anthony Lewis (BrainChip) | |
PDT: 11:35‑11:45 UTC: 18:35‑18:45 WAT: 19:35‑19:45 CAT: 20:35‑20:45 EAT: 21:35‑21:45 (10+5 min) | A Recurrent Dynamic Model for Efficient Bayesian Optimization | P. Michael Furlong (Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience/Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo) | |
PDT: 11:50‑12:15 UTC: 18:50‑19:15 WAT: 19:50‑20:15 CAT: 20:50‑21:15 EAT: 21:50‑22:15 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Strategic & Large-Scale Considerations of Neuromorphic Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Craig Vineyard (Sandia National Laboratory) | |
PDT: 12:20‑12:30 UTC: 19:20‑19:30 WAT: 20:20‑20:30 CAT: 21:20‑21:30 EAT: 22:20‑22:30 (10+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 12:35‑13:35 UTC: 19:35‑20:35 WAT: 20:35‑21:35 CAT: 21:35‑22:35 EAT: 22:35‑23:35 (60 min) | Lunch | ||
PDT: 13:35‑13:45 UTC: 20:35‑20:45 WAT: 21:35‑21:45 CAT: 22:35‑22:45 EAT: 23:35‑23:45 (10+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 13:50‑14:15 UTC: 20:50‑21:15 WAT: 21:50‑22:15 CAT: 22:50‑23:15 EAT: 23:50‑00:15 (25+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 14:20‑14:30 UTC: 21:20‑21:30 WAT: 22:20‑22:30 CAT: 23:20‑23:30 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 00:20‑00:30 (10+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 14:35‑14:45 UTC: 21:35‑21:45 WAT: 22:35‑22:45 CAT: 23:35‑23:45 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 00:35‑00:45 (10+5 min) | 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) | |
PDT: 14:50‑15:00 UTC: 21:50‑22:00 WAT: 22:50‑23:00 CAT: 23:50‑00:00 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 00:50‑01:00 (10+5 min) | Spiking Neural Network-based Flight Controller show presentation.pdf (public accessible), show talk video | Diego Chavez Arana (New Mexico State University) | |
PDT: 15:05‑15:35 UTC: 22:05‑22:35 WAT: 23:05‑23:35 CAT: Fri, 26 Apr 00:05‑00:35 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 01:05‑01:35 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
PDT: 15:35‑16:00 UTC: 22:35‑23:00 WAT: 23:35‑00:00 CAT: Fri, 26 Apr 00:35‑01:00 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 01:35‑02:00 (25+5 min) | PETNet– Coincident Particle Event Detection using Spiking Neural Networks | Jan Debus (ETH Zurich) | |
PDT: 16:05‑16:15 UTC: 23:05‑23:15 WAT: Fri, 26 Apr 00:05‑00:15 CAT: Fri, 26 Apr 01:05‑01:15 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 02:05‑02:15 (10+5 min) | NeRTCAM: CAM-Based CMOS Implementation of Reference Frames for Neuromorphic Processors show talk video | Harideep Nair (Carnegie Mellon University.) | |
PDT: 16:20‑17:20 UTC: 23:20‑00:20 WAT: Fri, 26 Apr 00:20‑01:20 CAT: Fri, 26 Apr 01:20‑02:20 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 02:20‑03:20 (60 min) | Open mic / discussion - day III speakers | ||
PDT: 17:20‑17:30 UTC: Fri, 26 Apr 00:20‑00:30 WAT: Fri, 26 Apr 01:20‑01:30 CAT: Fri, 26 Apr 02:20‑02:30 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 03:20‑03:30 (10 min) | Final words -- invitation to NICE 2025 | ||
PDT: 17:30 UTC: Fri, 26 Apr 00:30 WAT: Fri, 26 Apr 01:30 CAT: Fri, 26 Apr 02:30 EAT: Fri, 26 Apr 03:30 | End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2024 |
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PDT: 08:30 UTC: 15:30 WAT: 16:30 CAT: 17:30 EAT: 18:30 | Tutorial dayVenueThe tutorial day takes place at the San Diego Supercomputer Center SDSC (SDSC visitor information page) There is no reserved parking available for the Friday tutorial.
Tutorials are in three different rooms, all located at San Diego Supercomputer Center, East Expansion; Level B1
TutorialsThese 9 tutorial suggestions have been selected.
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PDT: 08:30‑10:30 UTC: 15:30‑17:30 WAT: 16:30‑18:30 CAT: 17:30‑19:30 EAT: 18:30‑20:30 (120 min) | Tutorial slot I Three tutorials in parallel
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PDT: 10:30‑11:00 UTC: 17:30‑18:00 WAT: 18:30‑19:00 CAT: 19:30‑20:00 EAT: 20:30‑21:00 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||||||||
PDT: 11:00‑13:00 UTC: 18:00‑20:00 WAT: 19:00‑21:00 CAT: 20:00‑22:00 EAT: 21:00‑23:00 (120 min) | Tutorial slot II Three tutorials in parallel
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PDT: 13:00‑14:00 UTC: 20:00‑21:00 WAT: 21:00‑22:00 CAT: 22:00‑23:00 EAT: 23:00‑00:00 (60 min) | Lunch
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PDT: 14:00‑16:00 UTC: 21:00‑23:00 WAT: 22:00‑00:00 CAT: 23:00‑01:00 EAT: Sat, 27 Apr 00:00‑02:00 (120 min) | Tutorial slot III Three tutorials in parallel | ||||||||
PDT: 16:00 UTC: 23:00 WAT: Sat, 27 Apr 00:00 CAT: Sat, 27 Apr 01:00 EAT: Sat, 27 Apr 02:00 | End of NICE 2024 |
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations contributing to the success of NICE 2024:
UC San Diego | |
Institute for Neural Computation | |
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society | |
Aizip | |
BrainChip |