ICONS 2019 - Program

Conference Program

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM - Intel Loihi Workshop -- Lunch included.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - ICONS Welcome and Overview
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Presentations and Lightning Talks:
- 4:00 PM - 4:25 PM - "Neuromorphic Architecture Optimization for Task-Specific Dynamic Learning" -- Sandeep Madireddy (Argonne National Laboratory), Angel Yanguas-Gil and Prasanna Balaprakash
- 4:25 PM - 4:50 PM - "A Neuromorphic Sparse Coding Defense to Adversarial Images" -- Edward Kim, Jessica Yarnall, Priya Shah (Villanova University) and Garrett Kenyon
- 4:50 PM - 5:00 PM - "Segmented Attractor Network for Neuromorphic Associative Learning" -- Alexander Jones (University of Cincinnati), Rashmi Jha, Ajey Jacob and Cory Merkel
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM - First Day Wrap-Up and Guide to ICONS Days 2 and 3
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Conference Reception at Maple Hall (414 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902)

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee
9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction
9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: "Active sensing and its application to neuromorphic space imaging" -- Greg Cohen, International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), Western Sydney University
10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations and Lighting Talks
- 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM - "Neuromorphic Acceleration for Approximate Bayesian Inference on Neural Networks via Permanent Dropout" -- Nathan Wycoff (Virginia Tech and Argonne National Laboratory), Prasanna Balaprakash and Fangfang Xia
- 11:10 AM - 11:35 AM - "Approximating Back-propagation for a Biologically Plausible Local Learning Rule in Spiking Neural Networks" -- Amar Shrestha (Syracuse University), Haowen Fang, Qing Wu and Qinru Qiu
- 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM - "Feature Extraction using Spiking Convolutional Neural Networks" -- Ruthvik Vaila (Boise State University), John Chiasson and Vishal Saxena
- 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM - "A Pulse-gated, Neural Implementation of the Backpropagation Algorithm" -- Andrew Sornborger, Jordan Snyder, Anatoly Zlotnik, Louis Tao, and Forrest Sheldon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:15 - 1:45 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: "DOE Interest for Supporting a Microelectronics R&D Initiative" -- Robinson Pino, Department of Energy
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Presentations

1:45 PM - 2:10 PM - "Memristor Based Autoencoder for Unsupervised Real-Time Network Intrusion and Anomaly Detection" -- Md. Shahanur Alam (University of Dayton), B. Rasitha Fernando, Yassine Jaoudi, Chris Yakopcic, Raqibul Hasan, Tarek M. Taha and Guru Subramanyam
2:10 PM - 2:35 PM - "Analog Neurons that Signal with Spiking Frequencies" -- Kun Yue (University of Southern California), Xiaoyu Wang, Jay Jadav, Akshay Vartak and Alice Parker
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM - "A Low-Power Domino Logic Architecture for Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Computing" -- Cory Merkel and Animesh Nikam (Rochester Institute of Technology)

3:30 PM - 3:40 PM - "MLP+NeuroSimV3.0: Improving On-chip Learning Performance with Device to Algorithm Optimizations" -- Yandong Luo(Georgia Institute of Technology), Xiaochen Peng and Shimeng Yu
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM - "CASPIAN: An Integrated Software and FPGA Neuromorphic Development Platform" - Parker Mitchell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
3:50 PM - 4:00 PM - "A Biologically-Inspired Algorithm for Interception" -- Frances Chance (Sandia National Laboratories)
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM - "Training Spiking Networks via Natural Evolution Strategies" -- Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp (SUNY Polytechnic Institute) and Nathaniel Cady
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM - "Unsupervised Dictionary Learning via a Spiking Locally Competitive Algorithm" -- Yijing Watkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Austin Thresher, Pete Schultz, Andreas Wild, Andrew Sornborger, Edward Kim and Garrett T. Kenyon
4:20 PM - 4:30 PM - "Benchmarking Event-Driven Neuromorphic Architectures" -- Craig Vineyard, Sam Green, William Severa (Sandia National Laboratories) and Cetin Koc

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM - Poster Introductions and Poster Session
6:00 - 9:00 PM - Conference Dinner at Calhoun's on the River (400 Neyland Dr, Knoxville, TN 37902)

Thursday, July 25, 2019

8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee
9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction
9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: "Thermodynamic Computing" -- Todd Hylton
10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations and Lightning Talks
- 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM - "Constraints on sequence processing speed in biological neuronal networks" -- Younes Bouhadjar (Jülich Research Centre), Markus Diesmann, Rainer Waser, Dirk .J Wouters and Tom Tetzlaff
- 11:10 AM - 11:35 AM - "Composing Neural Algorithms with Fugu" -- J. Brad Aimone (Sandia National Laboratories), William Severa and Craig Vineyard
- 11:35 AM - 11:45 AM - "Graph Partitioning as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) on Spiking Neuromorphic Hardware" -- Susan Mniszewski (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- 11:45 AM - 11:55 AM - "Dynamic Programming with Spiking Neural Computing" -- James Aimone, Ojas Parekh (Sandia National Laboratories), Cynthia Phillips, Ali Pinar, William Severa and Helen Xu
- 11:55 AM - 12:05 PM - "Approximate Pattern Matching using Hierarchical Graph Construction and Sparse Distributed Representation" -- Aakanksha Mathuria (Portland State University ) and Dan Hammerstrom
12:05 PM - 1:15 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: "DOE & Our Vision for AI" -- Dimitri Kusnezov, Department of Energy
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM - Lightning Talk

1:15 PM - 1:25 PM - "Fabrication and Performance of Hybrid ReRAM-CMOS Circuit Elements for Dynamic Neural Networks" -- Maximilian Liehr (SUNY Polytechnic Institute), Jubin Hazra, Karsten Beckmann, Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp, Nathaniel Cady, Ryan Weiss, Sagarvarma Sayyaparaju, Garrett Rose and Joseph Van Nostrand
1:25 PM - 1:35 PM - "Learning Behavior of Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Circuits in the Presence of Radiation" -- Sumedha Dahl (Boise State University), Robert Ivans and Kurtis Cantley
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM - "Design and Analysis of Real Time Spiking Neural Network Decoder for Neuromorphic Chips" -- Chenyuan Zhao and Yang Yi (Virginia Tech)

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Special Session on Benchmarking for Neuromorphic Systems
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM - Tutorial on "Enabling Efficient Dataflow Exploration for Reconfigurable Neural Accelerators " -- Tushar Krishna