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<p class="lead">Monday, July 23, 2018</p>
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<li>Symposiums and Workshops, including a hands-on workshop for Intel's neuromorphic chip Loihi.</li>
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<p class="lead">Tuesday, July 24, 2018</p>
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<li>9:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Regular Conference</li>
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<li>9:00 AM - 3:00 PM - Intel Loihi Workshop -- Lunch included.</li>
<li> 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Break</li>
<li>3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - ICONS Welcome and Overview</li>
<li>4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Presentations and Lightning Talks:
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<li>4:00 PM - 4:25 PM - "Neuromorphic Architecture Optimization for Task-Specific Dynamic Learning" -- <b>Sandeep Madireddy</b> (Argonne National Laboratory), Angel Yanguas-Gil and Prasanna Balaprakash</li>
<li>4:25 PM - 4:50 PM - "A Neuromorphic Sparse Coding Defense to Adversarial Images" -- Edward Kim, <b>Jessica Yarnall, Priya Shah</b> (Villanova University) and Garrett Kenyon</li>
<li>4:50 PM - 5:00 PM - "<a href="presentations/ICONS_2019_Alexander_Jones_Not_Animated.pdf">Segmented Attractor Network for Neuromorphic Associative Learning</a>" -- <b>Alexander Jones</b> (University of Cincinnati), Rashmi Jha, Ajey Jacob and Cory Merkel</li>
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<li>5:00 PM - 5:30 PM - First Day Wrap-Up and Guide to ICONS Days 2 and 3</li>
<li>6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Conference Reception at Maple Hall (414 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902)</li>
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<p class="lead">Wednesday, July 24, 2019</p>
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<li>8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction</li>
<li>9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: "<a href="https://youtu.be/mnfQwngwW78">Active sensing and its application to neuromorphic space imaging</a>" -- Greg Cohen, International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), Western Sydney University </li>
<li>10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break</li>
<li>10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations and Lighting Talks
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<li>10:45 AM - 11:10 AM - "<a href="presentations/wycoff_icons2019_prez.pdf">Neuromorphic Acceleration for Approximate Bayesian Inference on Neural Networks via Permanent Dropout</a>" -- <b>Nathan Wycoff</b> (Virginia Tech and Argonne National Laboratory), Prasanna Balaprakash and Fangfang Xia</li>
<li>11:10 AM - 11:35 AM - "Approximating Back-propagation for a Biologically Plausible Local Learning Rule in Spiking Neural Networks" -- <b>Amar Shrestha</b> (Syracuse University), Haowen Fang, Qing Wu and Qinru Qiu</li>
<li>11:35 AM - 12:00 PM - "<a href="presentations/ICONS2019_Vaila_Chiasson_presentation.pdf">Feature Extraction using Spiking Convolutional Neural Networks</a>" -- <b>Ruthvik Vaila</b> (Boise State University), John Chiasson and Vishal Saxena</li>
<li>12:00 PM - 12:10 PM - "A Pulse-gated, Neural Implementation of the Backpropagation Algorithm" -- Andrew Sornborger, Jordan Snyder, Anatoly Zlotnik, Louis Tao, and <b>Forrest Sheldon</b> (Los Alamos National Laboratory)</li>
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<li>12:15 - 1:45 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: "<a href="https://youtu.be/f69YtvhXEp0">DOE Interest for Supporting a Microelectronics R&D Initiative</a>" -- Robinson Pino, Department of Energy</li>
<li>1:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Presentations</li>
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<li>1:45 PM - 2:10 PM - "<a href="presentations/ICON Presentation July 2019_alam.pdf">Memristor Based Autoencoder for Unsupervised Real-Time Network Intrusion and Anomaly Detection</a>" -- <b>Md. Shahanur Alam</b> (University of Dayton), B. Rasitha Fernando, Yassine Jaoudi, Chris Yakopcic, Raqibul Hasan, Tarek M. Taha and Guru Subramanyam</li>
<li>2:10 PM - 2:35 PM - "<a href="presentations/kun_yue_icons2019.pdf">Analog Neurons that Signal with Spiking Frequencies</a>" -- <b>Kun Yue</b> (University of Southern California), Xiaoyu Wang, Jay Jadav, Akshay Vartak and Alice Parker</li>
<li>2:35 PM - 3:00 PM - "A Low-Power Domino Logic Architecture for Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Computing" -- Cory Merkel and <b>Animesh Nikam</b> (Rochester Institute of Technology)</li>
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<li>3:00 - 3:30 PM - Break</li>
<li>3:30 - 4:30 PM - Lightning Talks</li>
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<li>3:30 PM - 3:40 PM - "MLP+NeuroSimV3.0: Improving On-chip Learning Performance with Device to Algorithm Optimizations" -- <b>Yandong Luo</b>(Georgia Institute of Technology), Xiaochen Peng and Shimeng Yu</li>
<li>3:40 PM - 3:50 PM - "CASPIAN: An Integrated Software and FPGA Neuromorphic Development Platform" - <b>Parker Mitchell</b> (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)</li>
<li>3:50 PM - 4:00 PM - "<a href="presentations/Chance-ICONS 2019 presentation.pdf">A Biologically-Inspired Algorithm for Interception</a>" -- <b>Frances Chance</b> (Sandia National Laboratories)</li>
<li>4:00 PM - 4:10 PM - "Training Spiking Networks via Natural Evolution Strategies" -- <b>Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp</b> (SUNY Polytechnic Institute) and Nathaniel Cady</li>
<li>4:10 PM - 4:20 PM - "Unsupervised Dictionary Learning via a Spiking Locally Competitive Algorithm" -- <b>Yijing Watkins</b> (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Austin Thresher, Pete Schultz, Andreas Wild, Andrew Sornborger, Edward Kim and Garrett T. Kenyon</li>
<li>4:20 PM - 4:30 PM - "Benchmarking Event-Driven Neuromorphic Architectures" -- Craig Vineyard, Sam Green, <b>William Severa</b> (Sandia National Laboratories) and Cetin Koc</li>
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<li>4:30 PM - 6:00 PM - Poster Introductions and Poster Session</li>
<li>6:00 - 9:00 PM - Conference Dinner at Calhoun's on the River (400 Neyland Dr, Knoxville, TN 37902)</li>
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<p class="lead">Thursday, July 25, 2019</p>
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<li>8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction</li>
<li>9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: "<a href="https://youtu.be/zFGROl5uPzo">Thermodynamic Computing</a>" -- Todd Hylton</li>
<li>10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break</li>
<li>10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations and Lightning Talks
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<li>10:45 AM - 11:10 AM - "<a href="presentations/talk_younes_bouhadjar.pdf">Constraints on sequence processing speed in biological neuronal networks</a>" -- <b>Younes Bouhadjar</b> (Jülich Research Centre), Markus Diesmann, Rainer Waser, Dirk .J Wouters and Tom Tetzlaff</li>
<li>11:10 AM - 11:35 AM - "Composing Neural Algorithms with Fugu" -- <b>J. Brad Aimone</b> (Sandia National Laboratories), William Severa and Craig Vineyard</li>
<li>11:35 AM - 11:45 AM - "<a href="presentations/mniszewski_ICONS_2019_talk_v2.pdf">Graph Partitioning as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) on Spiking Neuromorphic Hardware</a>" -- <b>Susan Mniszewski</b> (Los Alamos National Laboratory)</li>
<li>11:45 AM - 11:55 AM - "<a href="presentations/NeuroDP_Parekh.pdf">Dynamic Programming with Spiking Neural Computing</a>" -- James Aimone, <b>Ojas Parekh</b> (Sandia National Laboratories), Cynthia Phillips, Ali Pinar, William Severa and Helen Xu</li>
<li>11:55 AM - 12:05 PM - "<a href="presentations/Mathuria_ICONS_2019.pdf">Approximate Pattern Matching using Hierarchical Graph Construction and Sparse Distributed Representation</a>" -- <b>Aakanksha Mathuria</b> (Portland State University ) and Dan Hammerstrom</li>
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<li>12:05 PM - 1:15 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: "<a href="https://youtu.be/Wh5plUIqk78">DOE & Our Vision for AI</a>" -- Dimitri Kusnezov, Department of Energy</li>
<li>1:15 PM - 1:45 PM - Lightning Talk</li>
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<li>1:15 PM - 1:25 PM - "Fabrication and Performance of Hybrid ReRAM-CMOS Circuit Elements for Dynamic Neural Networks" -- <b>Maximilian Liehr</b> (SUNY Polytechnic Institute), Jubin Hazra, Karsten Beckmann, Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp, Nathaniel Cady, Ryan Weiss, Sagarvarma Sayyaparaju, Garrett Rose and Joseph Van Nostrand</li>
<li>1:25 PM - 1:35 PM - "Learning Behavior of Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Circuits in the Presence of Radiation" -- <b>Sumedha Dahl</b> (Boise State University), Robert Ivans and Kurtis Cantley</li>
<li>1:35 PM - 1:45 PM - "Design and Analysis of Real Time Spiking Neural Network Decoder for Neuromorphic Chips" -- Chenyuan Zhao and <b>Yang Yi</b> (Virginia Tech)</li>
</ul>
<li>1:45 PM - 2:00 PM - Concluding Remarks</li>
<li>2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Break</li>
<li>2:30 - 5:30 PM - Tutorials and Special Sessions (Concurrent Sessions)</li>
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<li>2:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Special Session on Benchmarking for Neuromorphic Systems</li>
<li>2:30 PM - 5:30 PM - Tutorial on "Enabling Efficient Dataflow Exploration for Reconfigurable Neural Accelerators " -- Tushar Krishna</li>
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<p class="lead">Monday, July 23, 2018</p>
<ul>
<li>9:00 - 10:00 AM - Registration</li>
<li>10:00 AM - 5:30 PM - Intel Loihi Workshop (Break for lunch on your own 12:00-1:30). Loihi workshop participation is limited. Please register your interest <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/9Xo1j9vjWDbmpeie2">here</a>, and we will let you know if there is room in the workshop.</li>
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<li>12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch on your own</li>
<li>1:30 - 4:00 PM - Nx SDK (Presentation and Live Demonstration) -- David Florey and Andreas Wild</li>
<li>4:00 - 5:30 PM - Q&A and Open Discussion</li>
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<li>11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Reservoir Computing Tutorial</li>
<li>1:30 PM - 5:30 PM - Special Session on Memristors, organized by Ronald Tetzlaff (<a href="https://cmc-dresden.org">Chua Memristor Center</a>)
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<li>1:30 - 2:00 PM - "Experimental demonstrations of unconventional computing with memristive devices" -- J. Joshua Yang</li>
<li>2:00 - 2:30 PM - "Neuromorphic spiking networks with resistive switching memory (RRAM) synapses" -- Daniele Ielmini</li>
<li>2:30 - 3:00 PM - "Ge<sub>2</sub>Se<sub>3</sub>-Doped Devices: Towards Optically-Gated Transistors and Memristors for Neuromorphic Computing" -- Kristy A. Campbell</li>
<li>3:00 - 3:30 PM - "Feature extraction and information processing using memristor networks" -- Wei Lu</li>
<li>3:30 - 4:00 PM - Break</li>
<li>4:00 - 4:30 PM - "Real Processing-in-Memory with Memristive Memory Processing Unit" -- Shahar Kvatinsky</li>
<li>4:30 - 5:00 PM - "Computing with Bio–inspired Memristor Networks: Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamics via the Flux–Charge Analysis Method" -- Fernando Corinto</li>
<li>5:00 - 5:30 PM - "Unveiling the nonlinear dynamics of a TaO resistance switching memory" - Alon Ascoli </li>
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<p class="lead">Tuesday, July 24, 2018</p>
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<li>8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction</li>
<li>9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: Tom Potok</li>
<li>10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break</li>
<li>10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations
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<li>10:45 - 11:10 AM - “Saccadic Predictive Vision Model with a Fovea” -- <b>Michael Hazoglou</b> and Todd Hylton</li>
<li>11:10 - 11:35 AM - “<a href="presentations/comparison_reynolds.pdf">A Comparison of Neuromorphic Classification Tasks</a>” -- <b>John J. M. Reynolds</b>, James S. Plank, Catherine D. Schuman, Grant Bruer, Adam Disney, Mark E. Dean and Garret S. Rose</li>
<li>11:35 AM - 12:00 PM - “Sparse Coding Enables the Reconstruction of High-Fidelity Images and Video from Retinal Spike Trains” -- <b>Yijing Watkins</b>, Austin Thresher, David Mascarenas and Garrett Kenyon</li>
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<li>12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: “Bio-inspired computing with memristive neural networks” -- Zhongrui Wang, Can Li, Saumil Joshi, Rivu Midya, Qiangfei Xia, <b>J. Joshua Yang</b></li>
<li>1:30 - 3:10 PM - Presentations</li>
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<li>1:30 - 1:55 PM - “<a href="presentations/gridbot_icons18.pptx">Gridbot: An autonomous robot controlled by a Spiking Neural Network mimicking the brain's navigational system</a>” -- <b>Guangzhi Tang</b> and Konstantinos Michmizos</li>
<li>1:55 - 2:20 PM - “A Neural-Astrocytic Network Architecture: Astrocytic calcium waves modulate synchronous neuronal activity” -- Ioannis Polykretis, Vladimir Ivanov and <b>Konstantinos Michmizos</b></li>
<li>2:20 - 2:45 PM - “Neuromorphic hardware implementation of spiking algorithms for Markov random walks” -- <b>James Aimone</b>, Aaron Hill, Rich Lehoucq, Ojas Parekh and William Severa</li>
<li>2:45 - 3:10 PM - “A Summary of Neuromorphic Computing Research at Duke Center for Evolutionary Intelligence" - <b>Yiran Chen</b></li>
</ul>
<li>3:10 - 3:40 PM - Break</li>
<li>3:40 - 4:55 PM - Lightning Talks</li>
<ul>
<li>3:40 - 3:55 PM - “Design of superconducting optoelectronic networks for neuromorphic computing” -- <b>Sonia Buckley</b>, Adam McCaughan, Jeffrey Chiles, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jeffrey Shainline, Catherine Schuman and James Plank</li>
<li>3:55 - 4:10 PM - “Harnessing network dynamics in self-assembled atomic-switch networks for brain-inspired computation” -- <b>Saurabh Bose</b>, Shota Shirai, Josh Mallinson, Susant Acharya, Edoardo Galli and Simon Brown</li>
<li>4:10 - 4:25 PM - “Nano/Micro-Electro-Mechanical System Neuromorphic Computers” -- Mostafa Rafaie, Mohammad Hasan and <b>Fadi Alsaleem</b></li>
<li>4:25 - 4:40 PM - “<a href="presentations/mitchell_danna2_icons.pdf">DANNA 2: Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Arrays</a>” -- <b>J. Parker Mitchell</b>, Mark Dean, Grant Bruer, James Plank and Garrett Rose</li>
<li>4:40 - 4:55 PM - “<a href="presentations/ICONS_2018_Najem.pdf">Electrostriction, capacitive susceptibility, and neuromorphic computing with biomembrane</a>” -- <b>Joseph Najem</b>, Graham Taylor, Ryan Weiss, Md-Sakib Hasan, Garrett Rose, Catherine Schuman, A. Belianinov, Stephen Sarles and Charles Collier</li>
</ul>
<li>4:55 - 5:10 PM - First day wrap-up and instructions for dinner</li>
<li>6:00 - 8:00 PM - Dinner at Lonesome Dove, sponsored by Knowm and Duke University</li>
</ul>
<p class="lead">Wednesday, July 25, 2018</p>
<ul>
<li>8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction</li>
<li>9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: Elisabetta Chicca</li>
<li>10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break</li>
<li>10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations
<ul>
<li>10:45 - 11:10 AM - “Modeling Memristor Radiation Interaction Events and the Effect on Neuromorphic Learning Circuits” -- <b>Sumedha Dahl</b>, Robert Ivans and Kurtis Cantley</li>
<li>11:10 - 11:35 AM - “Relative Efficiency of Memristive and Digital Neuromorphic Crossbars” -- <b>Christopher Krieger</b>, David Mountain and Mark McLean</li>
<li>11:35 AM - 12:00 PM - “<a href="presentations/ICONS_2018_Hongyu_15.pdf">Learning Accuracy Analysis of Memristor-based Nonlinear Computing Module on Long Short-term Memory</a>” -- <b>Hongyu An</b>, Mohammad Al-Mamun, Zhen Zhou, Marius Orlowski and Yang Yi</li>
</ul>
<li>12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: "DOE Programmatic Activities in Advanced Computing Technologies: Beyond Moore’s Law Computing" -- Robinson Pino</li>
<li>1:30 - 3:05 PM - Presentation and Lightning Talk</li>
<ul>
<li>1:30 - 1:55 PM - “<a href="presentations/disney_icons_2018.pdf">Four Simulators of the DANNA Neuromorphic Computing Architecture</a>” -- <b>Adam Disney</b>, James Plank and Mark Dean</li>
<li>1:55 - 2:20 PM - “Towards adaptive spiking label propagation” -- <b>Kathleen Hamilton</b> and Catherine Schuman</li>
<li>2:20 - 2:35 PM - “Whetstone: An accessible, platform-independent method for training spiking deep neural networks for neuromorphic processors” -- <b>William Severa</b>, Craig Vineyard, Ryan Dellana and James Aimone</li>
<li>2:35 - 2:50 PM - “Radiographic Inference Based on a Model of V1 Simple Cells Implemented on the D-Wave 2X Quantum Annealing Computer” -- Nga Nguyen and <b>Garrett Kenyon</b></li>
<li>2:50 - 3:05 PM - “Efficient Classification of Supercomputer Failures Using Neuromorphic Computing” -- <b>Prasanna Date</b>, Christopher Carothers, Malik Magdon-Ismail and James Hendler</li>
</ul>
<li>3:05 - 3:30 PM - Break</li>
<li>3:30 - 4:00 PM - Lightning Talks</li>
<ul>
<li>3:30-3:45 PM - “Retinal-Inspired Algorithms for Detection of Moving Objects” -- <b>Frances Chance</b> and Christina Warrender</li>
<li>3:45 - 4:00 PM - “<a href="presentations/HRL-ICONS2018.pptx">A Dynamical Systems Approach to Neuromorphic Computation of Conditional Probabilities</a>” -- <b>Nigel Stepp</b> and Aruna Jammalamadaka</li>
</ul>
<li>4:00 - 4:30 PM - Poster Introductions</li>
<li>4:30 - 6:00 PM - Poster Session and <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/APXdnjsXfjjrVGkw1">Student Poster Competition</a>, sponsored by Intel</li>
</ul>
<p class="lead">Thursday, July 26, 2018</p>
<ul>
<li>8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00 - 9:30 AM - Welcome/Introduction</li>
<li>9:30 -10:00 AM - Invited Talk: "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Issues and Opportunities" -- David Womble</li>
<li>10:00 - 10:30 AM - Break</li>
<li>Lightning Talks</li>
<ul>
<li>10:30 - 10:45 AM - “<a href="presentations/ICONS_2018_Kendall.pptx">Memristive Liquid State Machine with MN3 Technology</a>” -- <b>Jack Kendall</b> and Vishal Pathak</li>
<li>10:45 - 11:00 AM - “Stochastic Digital Spike-timing-dependent Plasticity Implementation for Memristive Neuromorphic System” -- <b>Bon Woong Ku</b>, Md Musabbir Adnan, Catherine D. Schuman, Tiffany Mintz, Raphael Pooser, Garrett S. Rose and Sung Kyu Lim</li>
<li>11:30 - 11:15 AM - “<a href="presentations/ICONS_2018_RossPantone_SmallWorld.pdf">Small-World Connectivity Exhibited in Memristive Nanowires</a>” -- <b>Ross Pantone</b>, Jack Kendall and Juan Nino</li>
</ul>
<li>11:15 AM - 12:00 PM - Concluding Remarks</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>8:00-9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00-9:30 AM - Welcome</li>
<li>9:30-10:30 AM - <a href="presentations/cschuman_NeuromorphicSurveyKeynote.pdf">Neuromorphic Community Overview</a> Keynote Presentation: <a href="http://catherineschuman.com">Catherine Schuman</a></li>
<li>10:30-11:00 AM - Break</li>
<li>11:00 AM-12:05 PM - Presentations</li>
<ul>
<li>11:00-11:25 AM - “Efficient Hardware Implementation of Cellular Neural Networks with Powers-of-Two Based Incremental Quantization” -- Xiaowei Xu, Qing Lu, Tianchen Wang, Jinglan Liu, Yu Hu and <b>Yiyu Shi</b></li>
<li>11:25-11:50 AM - “A Multi-Level Optimization Framework for Efficient FPGA-Based Cellular Neural Network Implementation” -- Zhongyang Liu, Shaoheng Luo, Xiaowei Xu, <b>Yiyu Shi</b> and Cheng Zhuo</li>
<li>11:50 AM-12:05 PM - “<a href="presentations/mitchell_bruer_NeuromorphicNavigation.pdf">Neuromorphic Navigation with DANNA</a>” – <b>J. Parker Mitchell, Grant Bruer</b>, and Mark Dean</li>
</ul>
<li>12:05-1:30 PM - Working Lunch - Keynote: “Nexus of Machine Learning, Neuromorphic Computing, High Performance Computing, and the Million Veteran Program (MVP)” - <a href="https://www.energy.gov/diversity/contributors/dimitri-kusnezov">Dimitri Kusnezov</a></li>
<li>1:30-3:10 PM - Presentations</li>
<ul>
<li>1:30-1:55 PM - “<a href="presentations/cschuman_TemporalScientificData_NeuromorphicSymposium_2017.pdf">Neuromorphic Computing for Temporal Scientific Data Classification</a>” - <b>Catherine Schuman</b>, Thomas Potok, Robert Patton, Steven Young, Gangotree Chakma, Austin Wyer and Garrett Rose</li>
<li>1:55-2:20 PM - “Neuromorphic Data Microscope” -- John Naegle, <b>David Follett</b>, Conrad James, Brad Aimone, Roger Suppona, Duncan Townsend and Gabe Karpman</li>
<li>2:20-2:45 PM - “Community detection with spiking neural networks for neuromorphic hardware” - <b>Kathleen Hamilton</b>, Neena Imam and Travis Humble</li>
<li>2:45-3:10 PM - “<a href="presentations/Aimone-NCAMA2017-Presentation.pdf">Neural Computing for Scientific Computing Applications - More than Just Machine Learning</a>” – <b>Brad Aimone</b>, Ojas Parekh and William Severa</li>
</ul>
<li>3:10-3:30 PM - Break</li>
<li>3:30-4:00 PM - Poster Slam</li>
<li>4:00-5:30 PM - Poster/Demo Session</li>
<li>Adjourn at 5:30 PM</li>
<li>6:00-8:00 PM - Dinner at The Lonesome Dove in Knoxville, sponsored by Knowm and Duke University</li>
</ul>
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<p class="lead">Tuesday, July 18, 2017</p>
<ul>
<li> 8:00-9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00-9:10 AM - Welcome/Recap</li>
<li>9:10-10:10 AM - Keynote Presentation: "<a href="presentations/CNMS_presentation_2017-0718_Christen.pdf">Research and user capabilities at ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences</a>" -- <a href="https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/hans-m-christen">Hans Christen</a></li>
<li>10:10-10:30 AM - Break</li>
<li>10:30 AM -12:15 PM - Presentations</li>
<ul>
<li>10:30-10:55 AM - “Improving Neuromorphic Computing Efficiency with Sparse and Light Neural Networks” – <b>Yiran Chen</b></li>
<li>10:55-11:20 AM - “From Meta-Stable Switch Collections to Compositional Machine Learning” – <b>Alex Nugent</b> and Tim Molter</li>
<li>11:20-11:45 AM - “Spatio-Temporal Features on an Energy Budget: Transfer Learning with Deep CNNs and Reservoirs” -- Dillon Graham, Seyed Hamed F. Longroudi, Christopher Kanan, <b>Dhireesha Kudithipudi</b></li>
<li>11:45 AM-12:00 PM - “From Topological Skyrmion to Biological Spike: Developing All-Skyrmion Spiking Neural Network” – Zhezhi He and <b>Deliang Fan</b></li>
<li>12:00-12:15 PM - “<a href="presentations/Kendall_Memristive_Nanowire_Neural_Networks.pdf">Memristive Nanowire Networks</a>” - <b>Jack Kendall</b> and Juan Nino</li>
</ul>
<li>12:15-1:30 PM - Working Lunch - Importance of Co-Design</li>
<li>1:30-2:30 PM - Keynote Presentation: "<a href="presentations/RSWilliams_DoE_NeuroSymposium_2017.pdf">Inspired by the Brain: Computing from Architecture to Devices</a>" – <a href="https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c05139649.pdf?ver=1.0">Stan Williams</a></li>
<li>2:30-3:00 PM - Break</li>
<li>3:00-4:15 PM - Presentations</li>
<ul>
<li>3:00-3:25 PM - “When Energy Efficient Spike-Based Temporal Encoding Meets Resistive Crossbar: From Circuit Design to Application” -- Chenyuan Zhao, Jialing Li, <b>Hongyu An</b>, and Yang Yi</li>
<li>3:25-3:50 PM - “<a href="presentations/wyer_evaluating_online_learning.pdf">Evaluating Online-Learning in Memristive Neuromorphic Circuits</a>” - <b>Austin Wyer</b>, Md Musabbir Adnan, Bon Woong Ku, Sung Kyu Lim, Catherine D. Schuman, Raphael C. Pooser and Garrett S. Rose</li>
<li>3:50-4:15 PM - “IMC: Energy-Efficient In-Memory Convolver for Accelerating Binarized Deep Neural Network” -- Shaahin Angizi and <b>Deliang Fan</b></li>
</ul>
<li>4:15-5:00 PM - Posters/Demos</li>
<li>5:00 PM - Adjourn – Dinner on your own</li>
</ul>
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<p class="lead">Wednesday, July 19, 2017</p>
<ul>
<li> 8:00-9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee</li>
<li>9:00-9:10 AM - Welcome/Recap</li>
<li>9:10-10:10 AM - Keynote Presentation: “The DOE Neuromorphic Computing Research Program” - <a href="https://science.energy.gov/ascr/about/dr-robinson-e-pino/">Robinson Pino</a></li>
<li>10:10-10:40 AM - Break</li>
<li>10:40-11:30 AM - Presentations</li>
<ul>
<li>10:40-11:05 AM - “3D Memristor-based Adjustable Deep Recurrent Neural Network with Programmable Attention Mechanism” – <b>Hongyu An</b> and Yang Yi</li>
<li>11:05-11:30 AM - “<a href="presentations/yu_cao_M3D_v1.pdf">Monolithic 3D IC Design for Deep Neural Networks</a>” -- Kyungwook Chang, Deepak Kadetotad, <b>Yu Cao</b>, Jae-Sun Seo and Sung-Kyu Lim</li>
</ul>
<li>11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Working Lunch - Paths Forward</li>
<li>1:00-1:40 PM - Presentatations</li>
<ul>
<li>1:00-1:25 PM - "<a href="presentations/plank-2017-07-19-Neuro-Comp-Sym.pdf">A Software Stack for Neuromorphic Computing</a>” – <b>James Plank</b>, Mark Dean, Garrett Rose, and Catherine D. Schuman</li>
<li>1:25-1:40 PM - “<a href="presentations/plagge-NeMo2-Viz-Short-final.pdf">Simulation and Visualization of Custom Neuromorphic Hardware using NeMo</a>” - <b>Mark Plagge</b>, Neil McGlohon, Caitlin Ross and Christopher D. Carothers</li>
</ul>
<li>1:40-2:05 PM - “Memristor Crossbar Based Winner Take All Circuit Design for Self-organization” – Raqibul Hasan and <b>Tarek Taha</b></li>
<li>2:05-2:30 PM - “Peptide-doped lipid membranes as synaptic mimics for neuromorphic computing” – <b>Pat Collier</b>, Andy Sarles, and Joseph Najem</li>
<li>2:30-3:00 PM - End Remarks</li>
<li>3:00 - Adjourn </li>
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<li>10:30-11:30 - Check-In/Badge Pick-Up (ORNL Visitor's Center)</li>
<li>11:00-12:30 - Welcome/Working Lunch
<ul>
<li>Shaun Gleason, ORNL <a href="presentations/ShaunGleasonORNL&CCSDNeuromorphicWorkshop.pdf">(presentation)</a></li>
<li>Robinson Pino, DOE ASCR <a href="presentations/Pino_DOE_SC_ASCR_Neuromorphic_v1.pdf">(presentation)</a></li>
<li>Tom Potok, ORNL</li>
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<li>12:30-1:15 - Keynote: Todd Hylton, Brain Corporation <a href="presentations/Hylton-ORNLNeuromorphicComputingtalk-June2016.pdf">(presentation)</a></li>
<li>1:15-2:00 - Keynote: Catherine Schuman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory <a href="presentations/KatieSchumanKeynote.pdf">(presentation)</a></li>
<li>2:00-2:45 - Keynote: Cindy Leiton, Stony Brook University <a href="presentations/NCW_slides_final_cindy_leiton.pdf">(presentation)</a></li>
<li>2:45-3:30 - Break</li>
<li>3:30-4:00 - Presentation: Lloyd Whitman, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy <a href="presentations/Whitman-DOE-Neuromorphic-GrandChallenge-2016-06-29-handouts.pdf">(presentation)</a></li>
<li>4:00-5:00 - Focus Area Overview: Architectures/Models, Algorithms, Applications</li>
<li>5:00-5:30 - Summary</li>
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<p class="lead">Thursday, June 30, 2016</p>
<ul>
<li>8:00-8:30 - Coffee/Light Breakfast</li>
<li>8:30-8:40 - Welcome/Recap</li>
<li>8:40-10:00 - Short Presentations (20 minutes)
<ul>
<li>James Aimone, Kristofor Carlson and Fredrick Rothganger: <a href="presentations/Aimone_NeuralComputingScaleComplexity-OakRidge.pdf">Neural Computing: What Scale and Complexity is Needed?</a></li>
<li>Alice Parker: <a href="presentations/Parker_OakRidge_Final.pptx">Object Recognition and Learning using the BioRC Biomimetic Real-Time Cortex Neurons</a></li>
<li>Kathleen Hamilton, Alexander McCaskey, Jonathan Schrock, Neena Imam and Travis Humble: <a href="presentations/Associative_Memory_Models_with_Adiabatic_Quantum_Computation.pdf">Associative Memory Models with Adiabatic Quantum Optimization</a></li>
<li>Tinoosh Mohsenin and Farinaz Koushanfar: <a href="presentations/DOE2016-mohsenin-koushanfar.pdf">Bringing Physical Dimensions to the Deep Networks for Neuromorphic Computing</a></li>
</ul>
<li>10:00-10:30 - Break</li>
<li>10:30-12:00 - Short Presentations (20 minutes)
<ul>
<li>Yuan Xie: Architecture, ISA support, and Software Toolchain for Neuromorphic Computing in ReRAM Based Main Memory</li>
<li>Angel Yanguas-Gil: <a href="presentations/angel_yanguas-gil_neuro.pdf">Beyond the crossbar: materials based design and emulation of neuromemristive devices and architectures</a></li>
<li>Matthew J. Marinella, Sapan Agarwal, A. Alec Talin, Conrad D. James and F. Rick McCormick: Device to System Modeling Framework to Enable a 10 fJ per Instruction Neuromorphic Computer</li>
<li>Chris Carothers, Noah Wolfe, Prasanna Date, Mark Plagge, and Jim Hendler: <a href="presentations/Wolfe-Large-Scale_Hybrid_Neuromorphic_HPC_Simulations_Algorithms_and_Applications.pdf">Large-Scale Hybrid Neuromorphic HPC Simulations, Algorithms and Applications</a></li>
</ul>
<li>12:00-1:00 - Lunch and <a href="presentations/stanwilliams_doe_neuromorphic_workshop_july.pptx">Plenary by Stan Williams</a>.</li>
<li>1:00-2:30 - Short Presentations (20 minutes)
<ul>
<li>Priyadarshini Panda and Kaushik Roy: Enabling on-chip intelligence with low-power neuromorphic computing</li>
<li>Yu Cao, Steven Skorheim, Ming Tu, Pai-Yu Chen, Shimeng Yu, Jae-Sun Seo, Visar Berisha, Maxim Bazhenov and Zihan Xu: <a href="presentations/Yu-Cao-RHINO-v2.pdf">Efficient Neuromorphic Learning with Motifs of Feedforward Inhibition</a></li>
<li>Praveen Pilly, Nigel Stepp and Jose Cruz-Albrecht: <a href="presentations/ORNL_HRLs_Neuromorphic_redux.pdf">Exploiting Criticality in HRL's Latigo Neuromorphic Device</a></li>
<li>Yiran Chen: <a href="presentations/YiranChen_ORNL2016.pdf">Algorithm Innovations of Enhancing Scalability and Adaptability of Learning Systems</a></li>
</ul>
<li>2:30-3:00 - Break</li>
<li>3:00-3:45 - Lightning Talks (10 minutes)</li>
<ul>
<li>Vishal Saxena and Xinyu Wu: <a href="presentations/Oak_Ridge_Presentation_June_16_Public_Release_vishal_saxena.pdf">Addressing Challenges in Neuromorphic Computing with Memristive Synapses</a></li>
<li>Tarek Taha, Raqibul Hasan and Chris Yakopcic: <a href="presentations/taha_dayton_nca.pdf">Energy Efficiency and Throughput of Multicore Memristor Crossbar Based Neuromorphic Architectures</a></li>
<li>Dhireesha Kudithipudi, James Mnatzaganian, Anvesh Polepalli, Nicholas Soures, and Cory Merkel: <a href="presentations/Kudithipudi-ORNL-Neuromorphic-Workshop-2016.pdf">Energy Efficient and Scalable Neuromemristive Computing Substrates</a></li>
<li>Gangotree Chakma, Elvis Offor, Mark Dean and Garrett Rose: <a href="presentations/GRose_mrDANNA_NCAMA16.pdf">A Reconfigurable Memristive DANNA Circuit with Implementations in Pattern Recognition</a></li>
</ul>
<li>3:45-5:00 - Presenter Panel Discussion, moderated by Mark Dean</li>
<li>5:00-5:30 - Summary</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>7:30-8:00 - Coffee/Light Breakfast</li>
<li>8:00-10:00 - Breakout Discussion Sessions
<ul>
<li>Workshop Report Content Discussions</li>
<li>Example DOE Workshop Report: <a href="http://science.energy.gov/~/media/bes/pdf/reports/2016/NCFMtSA_rpt.pdf">Neuromorphic Computing: From Materials to Systems Architecture</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>10:00-10:30 - Break</li>
<li>10:30-11:45 - Breakout Discussion Sessions
<ul>
<li>Workshop Report Content Discussions</li>
<li>Example DOE Workshop Report: <a href="http://science.energy.gov/~/media/bes/pdf/reports/2016/NCFMtSA_rpt.pdf">Neuromorphic Computing: From Materials to Systems Architecture</a></li>
</ul>
<li>11:45-12:00 - Final Wrap-Up</li>
</ul>
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2:00pm - 3:00pm</h2>
<p class="lead"><span class="text-muted">Baidu Research Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</span></p>
<p>During the past few years, deep learning has made incredible progress towards solving many previously difficult Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks. Although the techniques behind deep learning have been studied for decades, they rely on large datasets and large computational resources, and so have only recently become practical for many problems. Training deep neural networks is very computationally intensive: training one model takes tens of exaflops of work, and so HPC techniques are key to creating these models. As in other fields, progress in AI is iterative, building on previous ideas. This means that the turnaround time in training models is a key bottleneck to progress in AI—the quicker an idea can be realized as a trainable model, train it on a large dataset, and test it, the quicker that ways can be found of improving the models. In this talk, Catanzaro will discuss the key insights that make deep learning work for many problems, describe the training problem, and detail the use of standard HPC techniques that allow him to rapidly iterate on his models. He will explain how HPC ideas are becoming increasingly central to progress in AI and will also show several examples of how deep learning is helping solve difficult AI problems.</p>
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3:00pm - 3:30pm</h2>
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<h2 class="lead">Asynchronous Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent - A Numeric Core for Scalable Distributed Machine Learning Algorithms<br>
3:30pm - 3:55pm</h2>
<p class="lead"><span class="text-muted">Janis Keuper and Franz-Josef Pfreundt</h2></span></p>
<p>The implementation of a vast majority of machine learning (ML) algorithms boils down
to solving a numerical optimization problem. In this context, Stochastic
Gradient Descent (SGD) methods have long proven to provide good results, both
in terms of convergence and accuracy. Recently, several parallelization approaches
have been proposed in order to scale SGD to solve very large ML problems.
At their core, most of these approaches are following a MapReduce scheme.
This paper presents a novel parallel updating algorithm for SGD, which utilizes
the asynchronous single-sided communication paradigm.
Compared to existing methods, Asynchronous Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent (ASGD) provides faster convergence,
at linear scalability and stable accuracy.</p>
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<h2 class="lead">HPDBSCAN – Highly Parallel DBSCAN<br>
3:55pm - 4:20pm</h2>
<p class="lead"><span class="text-muted">Markus Götz, Christian Bodenstein and Morris Riedel</h2></span></p>
<p>Clustering algorithms in the field of data-mining are used
to aggregate similar objects into common groups. One of
the best-known of these algorithms is called DBSCAN. Its
distinct design enables the search for an apriori unknown
number of arbitrarily shaped clusters, and at the same time
allows to filter out noise. Due to its sequential formulation, the parallelization of DBSCAN renders a challenge. In
this paper we present a new parallel approach which we call
HPDBSCAN. It employs three major techniques in order
to break the sequentiality, empower workload-balancing as
well as speed up neighborhood searches in distributed parallel processing environments i) a computation split heuristic
for domain decomposition, ii) a data index preprocessing
step and iii) a rule-based cluster merging scheme.
As a proof-of-concept we implemented HPDBSCAN as an
OpenMP/MPI hybrid application. Using real-world data
sets, such as a point cloud from the old town of Bremen,
Germany, we demonstrate that our implementation is able
to achieve a significant speed-up and scale-up in common
HPC setups. Moreover, we compare our approach with previous attempts to parallelize DBSCAN showing an order of
magnitude improvement in terms of computation time and
memory consumption.</p>
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<h2 class="lead">LBANN: Livermore Big Artificial Neural Network HPC Toolkit<br>
4:20pm - 4:45</h2>
<p class="lead"><span class="text-muted">Brian Van Essen, Hyojin Kim, Roger Pearce, Kofi Boakye and Barry Chen</span></p>
<p>Recent successes of deep learning have been largely driven by the ability to train large models on vast amounts of data. We believe that High Performance Computing (HPC) will play an increasingly important role in helping deep learning achieve the next level of innovation fueled by neural network models that are orders of magnitude larger and trained on commensurately more training data. We are targeting the unique capabilities of both current and upcoming HPC sys- tems to train massive neural networks and are developing the Livermore Big Artificial Neural Network (LBANN) toolkit to exploit both model and data parallelism optimized for large scale HPC resources. This paper presents our prelimi- nary results in scaling the size of model that can be trained with the LBANN toolkit.</p>
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<h2 class="lead">Optimizing Deep Learning Hyper-Parameters Through an Evolutionary Algorithm<br>
4:45pm - 5:10pm</h2>
<p class="lead"><span class="text-muted">Steven Young, Derek Rose, Thomas Karnowski, Seung-Hwan Lim and Robert Patton</h2></span></p>
<p>There has been a recent surge of success in utilizing Deep Learning (DL) in imaging and speech applications for its relatively automatic feature generation and, in particular for convolutional neural networks (CNNs), high accuracy classification abilities. While these models learn their parameters through data-driven methods, model selection (as architecture construction) through hyper-parameter choices remains a tedious and highly intuition driven task. To address this, Multi-node Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning (MENNDL) is proposed as a method for automating network selection on computational clusters through hyper-parameter optimization performed via genetic algorithms.</p>
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<h2 class="lead">Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Arrays: A Neuromorphic Architecture<br>
5:10pm - 5:30pm</h2>
<p class="lead"><span class="text-muted">Catherine Schuman, Adam Disney and John Reynolds</h2></span></p>
<p>Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array (DANNA) is a
neuromorphic hardware implementation. It differs from most
other neuromorphic projects in that it allows for programmability of structure, and it is trained or designed using evo-
lutionary optimization. This paper describes the DANNA
structure, how DANNA is trained using evolutionary optimization, and an application of DANNA to a very simple
classification task.</p>
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