Schedule

ICONS 2022 Conference Schedule: All times in EDT

ICONS 2022 will be held at Marriott Knoxville Downtown, located at 525 Henley St, Knoxville, TN 37902.

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 

 

7:30-8:30: Registration and Check-In

8:30-9:00: Welcome

9:00-10:00: Keynote: Chiara Bartolozzi

 

10:00-11:30: Full Presentations

• 10:00-10:30: LODeNNS: A Linearly-approximated and Optimized Dendrocentric Nearest Neighbor STDP. Akwasi Akwaboah and Ralph Etienne-Cummings.
• 10:30-11:00: Fine-tuning Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies with r-STDP for Domain Adaptation. Mahmoud Akl, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Deniz Ergene, Florian Walter and Alois Knoll.
• 11:00-11:30: Low-Shot Learning and Pattern Separation using Cellular Automata Integrated CNNs. Tej Pandit and Dhireesha Kudithipudi.

 

11:30-1:00 Lunch

 

1:00-2:30: Full Presentations

• 1:00-1:30: Design and implementation of a parsimonious neuromorphic PID for onboard altitude control for MAVs using neuromorphic processors. Stein Stroobants, Julien Dupeyroux and Guido De Croon. — BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
• 1:30-2:00: Interactive continual learning for robots: a neuromorphic approach. Elvin Hajizada, Patrick Berggold and Yulia Sandamirskaya.  — BEST PAPER AWARD
• 2:00-2:30: Learning to Parameterize a Stochastic Process Using Neuromorphic Data Generation. James Aimone, Rich Lehoucq, William Severa and J. Darby Smith.

 

2:30-3:00: Break

 

3:00-5:00: Lightning Talks

• 3:00-3:15: Distributed Localization with Grid-based Representations on Digital Elevation Models. Felix Wang, Corinne Teeter, Sarah Luca, Srideep Musuvathy and James Aimone.
• 3:15-3:30: Attentive Decision-making and Dynamic Resetting of Continual Running SRNNs for End-to-End Streaming Keyword Spotting. Bojian Yin, Qinghai Guo, Federico Corradi and Sander Bohte.
• 3:30-3:45: Think Fast: Time Control in Varying Paradigms of Spiking Neural Networks. Steven Nesbit, Andrew O’Brien, Jocelyn Rego, Gavin Parpart, Carlos Gonzalez, Garrett Kenyon, Edward Kim, Terrence Stewart and Yijing Watkins.
• 3:45-4:00: Optimizing Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks with Small Time Constants for Temporal Tasks. Yuan Zeng, Edward Jeffs, Terrence C. Stewart, Yevgeny Berdichevsky and Xiaochen Guo.
• 4:00-4:15: PMGD – A general approach to fast online training of modern datasets on real neuromorphic systems without backpropagation. Sonia Buckley and Adam McCaughan.
• 4:15-4:30: A Neuromorphic Algorithm for Radiation Anomaly Detection. James Ghawaly, Aaron Young, Dan Archer, Nick Prins, Brett Witherspoon and Catherine Schuman.
• 4:30-4:45: Resonate-and-Fire Neurons for Radar Interference Detection. Julian Hille, Daniel Auge, Cyprian Grassmann and Alois Knoll.

 

4:45-5:00: Wrap-Up of Day 1

 

 

Thursday, July 28, 2022

 

8:00-8:45: Registration

8:45-9:00: Welcome

9:00-10:00: Keynote: Ivan Schuller

 

10:00-11:00: Full Presentations

• 10:00-10:30: Spatiotemporal Pattern Recognition in Single Mixed-Signal VLSI Neurons with Heterogeneous Dynamic Synapses. Mattias Nilsson, Foteini Liwicki and Fredrik Sandin.
• 10:30-11:00: An Event-driven Recurrent Spiking Neural Network Architecture for Efficient Inference on FPGAs. Anand Sankaran, Paul Detterer, Kalpana Kannan, Nikolaos Alachiotis and Federico Corradi.

 

11:00-11:30: Lightning Talks

• 11:00-11:15: On-Chip Learning with a 15-neuron Digital Oscillatory Neural Network Implemented on ZYNQ Processor. Madeleine Abernot, Thierry Gil and Aida Todri-Sanial.
• 11:15-11:30: Distance Metrics as Neuromorphic Design Tools. Ben Etcheverry and Kurtis Cantley.

 

11:30-1:00: Lunch

 

1:00-2:00: Full Presentations:

• 1:00-1:30: Evaluating Encoding and Decoding Approaches for Spiking Neuromorphic Systems. Catherine Schuman, Charles Rizzo, John McDonald-Carmack, Nicholas Skuda and James Plank.
• 1:30-2:00: Reducing the Spike Rate in Deep Spiking Neural Networks. Riccardo Fontanini, David Esseni and Mirko Loghi.

 

2:00-2:30: Lightning Talks

• 2:00-2:15: Efficient spike encoding algorithms for neuromorphic speech recognition. Sidi Yaya Arnaud Yarga, Jean Rouat and Sean Wood.
• 2:15-2:30: Neuro-symbolic computing with spiking neural networks. Dominik Dold, Josep Soler Garrido, Victor Caceres Chian, Marcel Hildebrandt and Thomas Runkler.

 

2:30-3:00: Break

 

3:00-5:00: Poster Session

 

BEST IN-PERSON POSTER AWARD: “Improving Neuromorphic-Controlled Autonomous Racing through Algorithmic Optimizations”. Amelie Nagle, Alexandra Shanafield, Julia Steed and Catherine Schuman.

 

BEST VIRTUAL POSTER AWARD: “Multi-Weight Artificial Synapses with Variable Geometry for Neuromorphic Computing”. Thomas Leonard, Samuel Liu, Mahshid Alamdar, Jean-Anne Incorvia, Patrick Xiao, Christopher Bennett, Matthew Marinella, Joseph Friedman, Lin Xue, Otitoaleke Akinola and Can Cui.

 

4:00-8:00: NSF International Workshop on Large-Scale Neuromorphic Computing: https://www.nuailab.com/workshop.html

Registration link for the workshop: https://forms.gle/Yb4ZvtonqXqGmiiH8

 

Friday, July 29, 2022

 

8:00-8:45: Registration

8:45-9:00: Welcome

9:00-10:00: Invited Talks

• Robinson Pino, DOE
• Grace Hwang, NSF

 

10:00-11:30: Full Talks:

• 10:00-10:30: A Virtual Fence for Drones: Efficiently Detecting Propeller Blades with a DVXplorer Event Camera. Terrence C. Stewart, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Michel Picard, Frank Billy Djupkep Dizeu, Anthony Orth and Guillaume Gagné.
• 10:30-11:00: RetinoSim: an Event-based Data Synthesis Tool for Neuromorphic Vision Architecture Exploration. Jonah Sengupta, Susan Liu and Andreas Andreou.
• 11:00-11:30: Dictionary Learning with Accumulator Neurons. Gavin Parpart, Carlos Gonzalez, Terrence C. Stewart, Edward Kim, Jocelyn Rego, Andrew O’Brien, Steven Nesbit, Garrett T. Kenyon and Yijing Watkins.

 

11:30-1:00: Lunch

 

1:00-1:45: Lightning Talks

• 1:00-1:15: Event-Based Camera Simulation Wrapper for Arcade Learning Environment. Charles Rizzo, Catherine Schuman and James Plank.
• 1:15-1:30: Experiencing Prosthetic Vision with Event-Based Sensors. Bodo Rueckauer and Marcel van Gerven.
• 1:30-1:45: Towards a Laser Warning System in the Visible Spectrum using a Neuromorphic Camera. Antony Orth, Terrence C. Stewart, Michel Picard and Marc-Antoine Drouin.
• 1:45-2:00: Semi-Supervised Graph Structure Learning on Neuromorphic Computers. Guojing Cong, Seung-Hwan Lim, Shruti R. Kulkarni, Prasanna Date, Thomas Potok, Shay Snyder, Maryam Parsa and Catherine Schuman.
• 2:00-2:15: Apples-to-spikes: The first detailed comparison of LASSO solutions generated by a spiking neuromorphic processor. Kyle Henke, Michael Teti, Garrett Kenyon, Ben Migliori and Gerd Kunde.
• 2:15-2:30: R(t)-based Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity in Neural Circuits. Farhana Afrin and Kurtis D. Cantley.

 

2:30-3:00: Break

 

3:00-4:00: Lightning Talks

• 3:00-3:15: Neuromorphic Computing is Turing-Complete. Prasanna Date, Thomas Potok, Catherine Schuman and Bill Kay.
• 3:15-3:30: Towards a Hardware-Aware Decomposition Method for ReRAM Neural Network Training. Osama Yousuf, Matthew W. Daniels, Andrew Dienstfrey and Gina C. Adam.
• 3:30-3:45: Binarized Neuromorphic Computing with STT MTJ Synapses: Peng Zhou, Alexander Edwards, Frederick Mancoff, Dimitri Houssameddine, Sanjeev Aggarwal and Joseph S. Friedman.
• 3:45-4:00: Sparse Vector Binding on Spiking Neuromorphic Hardware Using Synaptic Delays. Alpha Renner, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Friedrich T. Sommer and E. Paxon Frady.

 

4:00-4:30: Conference Wrap-Up

 

 

August 1, 2022 (Virtual Only)

• 8:00-9:30 AM Neuromorphic Computing for Optimization Problems
• 10:00-11:30 AM: Neuromorphic Materials and Devices