ICONS 2021 Virtual Conference Schedule
All times are given in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT/GMT-4).
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Tutorial
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Welcome
- Tom Potok (General Chair), Melika Payvand and Katie Schuman (Program Co-Chairs)
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM: Keynote: Emre Neftci
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: Break
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM: Full Talks on Biologically-Plausible Algorithms
- “Towards Biologically-Plausible Neuron Models and Firing Rates in High-Performance Deep Spiking Neural Networks,” Chen Li and Steve Furber
- “Efficient Biologically-Plausible Training of Spiking Neural Networks with Precise Timing,” Richard Boone, Wenrui Zhang and Peng Li
- “Tightening the Biological Constraints on Gradient-Based Predictive Coding,” Nicholas Alonso and Emre Neftci — BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
- “A spiking network model for semantic representation and replay-based association acquisition,” Brian S. Robinson, Adam C. Polevoy, Sean L. McDaniel, Will Coon, Clara A. Scholl, Mark McLean and Erik C. Johnson
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM: Break
1:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Lightning Talks on Algorithms
- “Low Power Hardware-In-The-Loop Neuromorphic Training Accelerator,” J. Parker Mitchell and Catherine Schuman
- “Neuromorphic Design Using Reward-based STDP Learning on Event-Based Reconfigurable Cluster Architecture,” Mahyar Shahsavari, David Thomas, Andrew Brown and Wayne Luk
- “Training Spiking Neural Networks with Synaptic Plasticity under Integer Representation,” Shruti Kulkarni, Maryam Parsa, Parker Mitchell and Catherine Schuman
- “Temporal learning with biologically fitted SNN models,” Yuan Zeng, Terrence C. Stewart, Zubayer Ibne Ferdous, Yevgeny Berdichevsky and Xiaochen Guo
- “Computational Complexity of Neuromorphic Algorithms,” Prasanna Date, Bill Kay, Catherine Schuman, Robert Patton and Thomas Potok
- “Neko: a Library for Exploring Neuromorphic Learning Rules,” Zixuan Zhao, Nathan Wycoff, Neil Getty, Rick Stevens and Fangfang Xia
- “NeuroXplorer 1.0: An Extensible Framework for Architectural Exploration with Spiking Neural Networks,” Adarsha Balaji, Shihao Song, Twisha Titirsha, Anup Das, Jeffrey Krichmar, Nikil Dutt, James Shackleford, Nagarajan Kandasamy and Francky Catthoor
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Invited Talks
- Hal Greenwald, AFOSR
- Grace Hwang, NSF
- Robinson Pino, DOE ASCR
- Ken Whang, NSF
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Welcome
- Melika Payvand and Katie Schuman (Program Co-Chairs)
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM: Keynote: Julie Grollier
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: Break
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM: Full Talks on Algorithms for Hardware
- “Connection Pruning for Deep Spiking Neural Networks with On-Chip Learning,” Thao N.N. Nguyen, Bharadwaj Veeravalli and Xuanyao Fong
- “Hessian Aware Quantization of Spiking Neural Networks,” Hin Wai Lui and Emre Neftci
- “Porting Deep Spiking Q-Networks to neuromorphic chip Loihi,” Mahmoud Akl, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Florian Walter and Alois Knoll
- “Accurate and Accelerated Neuromorphic Network Design Leveraging A Bayesian Hyperparameter Pareto Optimization Approach,” Maryam Parsa, Catherine Schuman, Nitin Rathi, Amir Ziabari, Derek Rose, J. Parker Mitchell, J. Travis Johnston, Bill Kay, Steven Young and Kaushik Roy — BEST PAPER AWARD
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM: Break
1:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Lightning Talks on Hardware
- “Bridge Networks,” Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp and Maxim Bazhenov
- “MNIST classification using Neuromorphic Nanowire Networks,” Ruomin Zhu, Alon Loeffler, Joel Hochstetter, Adrian Diaz-Alvarez, Tomonobu Nakayama, Adam Stieg, James Gimzewski, Joseph Lizier and Zdenka Kuncic
- “Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Computing with beyond-CMOS Oscillatory Neural Networks,” Corentin Delacour, Stefania Carapezzi, Gabriele Boschetto and Aida Todri-Sanial
- “BEOL compatible cross-bar array of ferroelectric synapses,” Zhenming Yu, Laura Bégon-Lours, Yigit Demirag and Bert Jan Offrein
- “Reservoir Computing Using Networks of CMOS Logic Gates,” Heidi Komkov, Liam Pocher, Alessandro Restelli, Brian Hunt and Daniel Lathrop
- “The Need for Scalable Digital Spiking Neurons,” Alexander Jones and Krishnamurthy Vemuru
- “A Flexible FPGA Implementation of Morris-Lecar Neuron for Reproducing Different Neuronal Behaviors,” Idir Mellal, David Crompton, Milos Popovic and Milad Lankarany
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Poster Session
- “Neuromorphic System using LSI Neurons and MOSFET Synapses with Autonomous Learning Rule,” Mutsumi Kimura, Yoshinori Miyamae, Mitsuo Tamura and Yasuhiko Nakashima
- “Purely Spintronic Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons,” Wesley Brigner, Naimul Hassan, Xuan Hu, Christopher Bennett, Felipe Garcia-Sanchez, Matthew Marinella, Jean Anne Incorvia and Joseph S. Friedman
- “Instruction Set for a Neuromorphic Co-Processor with On-Chip Learning,” Thao N.N. Nguyen, Bharadwaj Veeravalli and Xuanyao Fong
- “Linking Sparse Coding Dictionaries for Representation Learning,” Nicki Barari and Edward Kim
- “Integrate and Fire Neurons Based on Diffusive Memristors for Spiking Neural Networks,” Solomon Amsalu Chekol — BEST POSTER AWARD
- “A Novel Facial Emotion Recognition system using In-Memory Computing,” Ajay BS
Thursday, July 29, 2021
9:00 AM – 10:00AM: Late-Breaking Results Session: Email your interest in participating to Katie Schuman at schumancd[at]ornl.gov!
- Yigit Demirag, ETH Zurich
- Samiran Ganguly, University of Virginia
- David Mascarenas, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Andrew Sornborger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Anurag Daram, University of Texas San Antonio
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Welcome and Best Paper/Poster Announcements
- Melika Payvand and Katie Schuman (Program Co-Chairs)
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM: Keynote: Yulia Sandamirskaya
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: Break
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM: Full Talks on Applications
- “Superevents: Towards Native Semantic Segmentation for Event-based Cameras,” Weng Fei Low, Ankit Sonthalia, Zhi Gao, André van Schaik and Bharath Ramesh
- “Dynamic Vision Sensor integration on FPGA-based CNN accelerators for high-speed visual classification,” Alejandro Linares-Barranco, Antonio Rios-Navarro, Ricardo Tapiador Morales, Salvador Canas Moreno, Enrique Piñero Fuentes and Tobi Delbruck
- “Spiking Neuromorphic Networks for Binary Tasks,” James S. Plank, Chaohui Zheng, Catherine Schuman and Christopher Dean
- “A System for Validating Resistive Neural Network Prototypes,” Brian Hoskins, Wen Ma, Mitchell Fream, Osama Yousuf, Mathew Daniels, Jonathan Goodwill, Advait Madhavan, Hoang Tung, Mark Branstad, Muqing Liu, Rasmus Madsen, Jabez Mclelland, Gina Adam and Martin Lueker-Boden
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM: Break
1:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Lightning Talks on Applications
- “Neuromorphic Computing for Autonomous Racing,” Robert Patton, Catherine Schuman, Shruti R. Kulkarni, Maryam Parsa, John Mitchell, N. Quentin Haas, Christopher Stahl, Spencer Paulissen, Prasanna Date, Thomas Potok and Shay Snyder
- “Drone Virtual Fence Using a Neuromorphic Camera,” Terrence Stewart, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Guillaume Gagné and Guy Godin
- “Neuromorphic Graph Algorithms: Cycle Detection, Odd Cycle Detection, and Max Flow,” Bill Kay, Catherine Schuman, Jade O’Connor, Prasanna Date and Thomas Potok
- “Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing and EMG Hand Gesture Recognition,” Nikhil Garg, Ismael Balafrej, Yann Beilliard, Dominique Drouin, Fabien Alibart and Jean Rouat
- “Implementation of Dragonfly Interception Model on Neuromorphic Hardware,” Luke Parker, Frances Chance and Suma Cardwell
- “2D Histogram based Region Proposal (H2RP) Algorithm for Neuromorphic Vision Sensors,” Ranajay Medya, Sai Sukruth Bezugam, Dwijay Bane and Manan Suri
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Doctoral Consortium
- Sathwika Bavikadi, George Mason University
- Wesley Brigner, University of Texas at Dallas
- Hagar Hendy, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Ziru Li, Duke University
- Sebastian Siegel, Forschungszentrum Juelich
