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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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065206 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) video (restricted access) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065250 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 talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065060 show abstract | Eric Müller (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg) | |
| 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 Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065861 | Alicia Bremer (University of Waterloo) | |
| 12:47 (1+1 min) | 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 (1+1 min) | Poster: Multi-timescale synaptic plasticity on analog neuromorphic hardware Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065914 | Amani Atoui (Heidelberg University) | |
| 12:51 (1+1 min) | 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 (1+1 min) | 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 (1+1 min) | 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 (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 Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11064919 | Katy Warr (University of Southampton) | |
| 13:01 (1+1 min) | Poster: VIBE: Enhancing Unsupervised Continual Learning with Autonomous Novelty Detection Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065777 | Balachandran Swaminathan (Pennsylvania State University) | |
| 13:03 (1 min) | Poster: A Grid-Cell-Inspired Structured Vector Algebra for Cognitive Maps Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065704 | 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) video (restricted access) | 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 show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Florian Fischer (Heidelberg University) | |
| 14:40‑14:45 (5 min) | 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) | |
| 14:45‑14:50 (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 show talk video | 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065886 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065119 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065909 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Timo Gierlich (University of Bern) | |
| 10:35‑10:40 (5 min) | Late breaking news: Backpropagation through space, time, and the brain show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Gido van de Ven (KU Leuven) | |
| 11:55‑12:05 (10+5 min) | 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, 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) video (restricted access) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11064940 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065716 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065267 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065780 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065149 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | 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 show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065891 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | Jason Yik (Harvard University) | |
| 09:15‑09:25 (10+5 min) | 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, Matthias Jobst, Chen Liu, Florian Kelber, Bernhard Vogginger and Christian Mayr We present OctopuScheduler, the first generalized on-chip scheduling framework for the accelerated inference of non-spiking deep neural networks (DNNs) on the neuromorphic hardware platform SpiNNaker2. The goal of OctopuScheduler is to flexibly support a wide variety of state-of-the-art DNN architectures for different domains, moving from an application-specific custom implementation to a generally applicable framework, simplifying the access to the SpiNNaker2 platform. The on-chip scheduling approach allows to minimize communication latencies with the host, completely controlling the execution of layers for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer architectures within a single chip. OctopuScheduler as a scheduling framework for classical deep neural networks has the potential to unlock the experimentation with large-scale hybrid deep and spiking neural network (SNN) architectures, event-based computing and neuromorphic modifications of classical state-of-the-art DNN architectures on the neuromorphic multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) SpiNNaker2. | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065840 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065180 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) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065293 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 presentation.pdf (public accessible) show abstract | Frances Chance (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 12:10‑12:20 (10+5 min) | 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, 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065510 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065602 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065299 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) video (restricted access) | 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) show presentation.pdf (public accessible) show talk video (YouTube) (local version) | 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 show presentation.pdf (public accessible) Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE65350.2025.11065663 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 | 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 Tutorials will be offered in three slots with several tutorials running in parallel. Please see below for the description of the offered tutorials | ||
| 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 (The tutorials described above will be distributed into the three available tutorial slots - with several of the tutorials running in parallel) | ||
| 09:00‑11:00 (120 min) | Tutorial slot I | ||
| 11:00‑11:30 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30‑13:30 (120 min) | Tutorial slot II | ||
| 13:30‑14:15 (45 min) | Lunch | ||
| 14:15‑16:15 (120 min) | Tutorial slot III | ||
| 16:15 | End of NICE 2025 | ||