NICE 2024 - Agenda
(show all abstracts)Tuesday, 23 April 2024 | |||
08:00 | NICE 2024-- day 1NICE 2024RegistrationFor registration, please see the registration options and link to the registration form. Venue
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08:00 | NICE 2024 agendaTimes listed are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), and are subject to change. It is also possible to show the agenda with other time zones listed, which are relevant for: Africa, America, Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan | ||
08:00‑08:30 (30 min) | Registration and breakfast | ||
08:30‑08:45 (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) | |
08:50‑09:35 (45+5 min) | Organisers round | Members of the organising committees | |
09:40‑10:25 (45+5 min) | Keynote: Brains and AI | Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) | |
10:30‑11:00 (30 min) | Break | ||
11:00‑11:25 (25+5 min) | Biological Dynamics Enabling Training of Binary Recurrent Networks | William Chapman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
11:30‑11:40 (10+5 min) | Towards Convergence Intelligence – neuromorphic engineering and engineered organoids for neurotechnology show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Dr. Grace Hwang (Program Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)/ U.S. BRAIN Initiative) | |
11:45‑12:10 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Learning algorithms for spiking and physical neural networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Friedemann Zenke (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research & University of Basel) | |
12:15‑12:30 (15 min) | Poster teasers 1-min "this is my poster content" teasers
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12:30‑14:00 (90 min) | Poster-lunch (posters + finger food)
Posters
Talk-Posters
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14:00‑14:25 (25+5 min) | SQUAT: Stateful Quantization-Aware Training in Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks | Sreyes Venkatesh (UC Santa Cruz) | |
14:30‑14:40 (10+5 min) | Expressive Dendrites in Spiking Networks show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Mark Plagge (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
14:45‑15:10 (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) | |
15:15‑15:45 (30 min) | Break | ||
15:45‑16:10 (25+5 min) | Embracing the Hairball: An Investigation of Recurrence in Spiking Neural Networks for Control | Katie Schuman (University of Tennessee) | |
16:15‑17:00 (45 min) | Open mic / discussion -- day I speakers | ||
17:00‑18:00 (60 min) | Misha Mahowald Prizes
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18:00‑19:00 (60 min) | Reception and celebration of 35+ years of neuromorphic engineering |
Wednesday, 24 April 2024 | |||
08:00 | NICE 2024 - Day II | ||
08:00‑08:30 (30 min) | Breakfast | ||
08:30‑09:15 (45+5 min) | Keynote: Hearing with Silicon Cochleas | Shih-Chii Liu (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) | |
09:20‑09:30 (10+5 min) | Explaining Neural Spike Activity for Simulated Bio-plausible Network through Deep Sequence Learning | Shruti R Kulkarni (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | |
09:35‑10:00 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Hardware Accelerators for Brain-Inspired Computing | John Arthur (IBM Research) | |
10:05‑10:30 (25+5 min) | Hardware-aware Few-shot Learning on a Memristor-based Small-world Architecture | Karthik Charan Raghunathan (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and UZH Zurich) | |
10:35‑11:05 (30 min) | Break | ||
11:05‑11:30 (25+5 min) | Spiking Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Loihi-2 | Brad Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
11:35‑11:45 (10+5 min) | jaxsnn: Event-driven Gradient Estimation for Analog Neuromorphic Hardware | Eric Müller (BrainScaleS, Heidelberg University) | |
11:50‑12:00 (10+5 min) | Late-breaking-news: Distributed Neural State Machines on Loihi 2 | Alpha Renner (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) | |
12:05‑12:20 (15 min) | Poster teasers 1-min "this is my poster content" teasers
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12:20‑12:30 (10 min) | Group photo | ||
12:30‑14:00 (90 min) | Poster-lunch (posters + finger food)
Posters
Talk-Posters
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14:00‑14:10 (10+5 min) | Quantized Context Based LIF Neurons for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks in 45nm | Sai Sukruth Bezugam (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara) | |
14:15‑14:40 (25+5 min) | Compositional Factorization of Visual Scenes with Convolutional Sparse Coding and Resonator Networks | Chris Kymn (UC Berkeley) | |
14:45‑14:55 (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) | |
15:00‑15:10 (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)) | |
15:15‑15:45 (30 min) | Break | ||
15:45‑16:10 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Towards fractional order dynamics neuromorphic elements | Fidel Santamaria (Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio) | |
16:15‑16:25 (10+5 min) | Compute-in-Memory with 6T-RRAM Memristive Circuit for Next-Gen Neuromorphic Hardware | Kang Jun Bai (Air Force Research Laboratory) | |
16:30‑17:30 (60 min) | Open mic / discussion - day II speakers | ||
17:30 | End of the second day |
Thursday, 25 April 2024 | |||
08:00 | Day III | ||
08:00‑08:30 (30 min) | Breakfast | ||
08:30‑09:15 (45+5 min) | Keynote: NeuroBench: A Framework for Benchmarking Neuromorphic Computing Algorithms and Systems | Jason Yik (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard) | |
09:20‑10:20 (60 min) | IEEE EMBS special session: forum on AI for health care | Metin Akay and Gert Cauwenberghs (IEEE EMBS and University of Houston and UC San Diego) | |
10:20‑10:50 (30 min) | Break | ||
10:50‑11:00 (10+5 min) | One-Shot Auditory Blind Source Separation via Local Learning in a Neuromorphic Network | Patrick Abbs (Cambrya, LLC) | |
11:05‑11:30 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: TENN: A highly efficient transformer replacement for edge and event processing. show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | M Anthony Lewis, Yan Ru Pei and Olivier Coenen (BrainChip) | |
11:35‑11:45 (10+5 min) | A Recurrent Dynamic Model for Efficient Bayesian Optimization | P. Michael Furlong (Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience/Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo) | |
11:50‑12:15 (25+5 min) | Invited talk: Strategic & Large-Scale Considerations of Neuromorphic Computing show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Craig Vineyard (Sandia National Laboratory) | |
12:20‑12:30 (10+5 min) | GPU-RANC: A CUDA Accelerated Simulation Framework for Neuromorphic Architectures show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Joshua Mack (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona) | |
12:35‑13:35 (60 min) | Lunch | ||
13:35‑13:45 (10+5 min) | Late-breaking-news: Neuromodulated mixture of experts: A prefrontal cortex inspired architecture for lifelong learning | Clara Yi (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) | |
13:50‑14:15 (25+5 min) | Energy Efficient Implementation of MVM Operations Using Filament-free Bulk RRAM Arrays show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Dr. Ashwani Kumar (Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego) | |
14:20‑14:30 (10+5 min) | TickTockTokens: a minimal building block for event-driven systems show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Johannes Leugering (Institute for Neural Computation, Bioengineering Dept., UC San Diego) | |
14:35‑14:45 (10+5 min) | Late-breaking-news: Brain-Inspired Hypervector Processing at the Edge of Large Language Models show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Alaaddin Goktug Ayar (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) | |
14:50‑15:00 (10+5 min) | Spiking Neural Network-based Flight Controller show presentation.pdf (public accessible) | Diego Chavez Arana (New Mexico State University) | |
15:05‑15:35 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
15:35‑16:00 (25+5 min) | PETNet– Coincident Particle Event Detection using Spiking Neural Networks | Jan Debus (ETH Zurich) | |
16:05‑16:15 (10+5 min) | NeRTCAM: CAM-Based CMOS Implementation of Reference Frames for Neuromorphic Processors | Harideep Nair (Carnegie Mellon University.) | |
16:20‑17:20 (60 min) | Open mic / discussion - day III speakers | ||
17:20‑17:30 (10 min) | Final words -- invitation to NICE 2025 | ||
17:30 | End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2024 |
Friday, 26 April 2024 | |||||||||
08:30 | 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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08:30‑10:30 (120 min) | Tutorial slot I Three tutorials in parallel
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10:30‑11:00 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||||||||
11:00‑13:00 (120 min) | Tutorial slot II Three tutorials in parallel
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13:00‑14:00 (60 min) | Lunch
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14:00‑16:00 (120 min) | Tutorial slot III Three tutorials in parallel | ||||||||
16:00 | 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 |