Brain, Computation, and Learning (BCL) January 9-13, 2023

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9-13 January, 2023

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Brain, Computation, and Learning (BCL)

January 9-13, 2023

Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Sponsored by Pratiksha Trust and Indian Institute of Science

Computational approaches to understanding brain function form an important and growing area of interdisciplinary research. These approaches and associated techniques have acted as a melting pot for researchers from disparate disciplines to come together and address one of the grandest challenges of the 21st century. The grandness of the challenge and the requirement on diverse forms of expertise has deemed that such endeavors require synergistic interactions among neurobiologists and computer scientists. Over the past decade or two, neurobiologists have made significant conceptual advances in our understanding of the brain through technical breakthroughs that have yielded unprecedented opportunities to gather large-scale structural and functional data. On the other hand, over the same period, computer scientists have developed exceptional tools to address questions in machine learning and data analytics, tools that are not only helpful in emulating brain function, but also are radically transforming many applications in information and communication technologies. This workshop on Brain Computation and Learning is aimed at creating this useful dialogue between neurobiologists and computer scientists and educating research students of each area with relevant topics of the other.

A prominent goal of this workshop is to promote synergistic interactions among neurobiologists and computer scientists. The workshop would allow young researchers to understand the diverse themes of research and appreciate the close relationships between these apparently distinct themes.

This workshop is funded by a generous endowment from the Pratiksha Trust, which has been significantly promoting fundamental and translational neuroscience research within the country through the establishment of research centres and chair professorships at the Indian Institutes of Science (Bengaluru) and Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Chennai).

Workshop on
Brain, Computation, and Learning (BCL)

Meet our Speakers

Rajesh P. N. Rao

Rajesh P. N. Rao

Professor and Director

NSF Center for Neurotechnology (CNT), CS & ECE, University of Washington, USA
Pratiksha Trust Chair Professor

Maneesh Sahani

Maneesh Sahani

Professor and Director

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, UK
Smt. Sudha Murty Chair Professor

Aditya Goyal

Aditya Goyal

President

Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry
ASCO, INDIA
Anand Raghunathan

Anand Raghunathan

Professor

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue, US

Arindam Basu

Arindam Basu

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Barani Raman

Barani Raman

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University, USA

Bratati Kahali

Bratati Kahali

Associate Professor

Centre for Brain Research,
IISc, INDIA

Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan

Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan

Assistant Professor

Centre for Brain Research,
IISc, INDIA

Dino Levy

Dino Levy

Associate Professor

Marketing Department, Coller School of Management, Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL

Dipanjan Roy

Dipanjan Roy

Associate Professor

Centre for Brain Science and Application (CBSA), School of AI and Data Science
IIT Jodhpur, INDIA
John Seymour

John Seymour

Associate Professor

UTHealth in Neurosurgery
McGovern School of Medicine University of Texas Health, USA

Jonas S Sundarakumar

Jonas S Sundarakumar

Assistant Professor

Centre for Brain Research
IISc, INDIA

Josef Parvizi

Josef Parvizi

Professor

Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Stanford University, USA

Nisheeth Srivastava

Nisheeth Srivastava

Associate Professor

Dept of Computer Science & Engineering,
IIT Kanpur, INDIA
Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam

Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam

Assistant Professor

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering
IIT Bombay, INDIA

Pratik Mutha

Pratik Mutha

Jibaben Patel Chair Associate Professor

Biological Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, INDIA

Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Assistant Professor

Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems
IIIT Hyderabad, INDIA
Sahil Shah

Sahil Shah

Assistant Professor

Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, USA

Shabari Girishan K V

Shabari Girishan K V

Associate Professor

Department of Neurosurgery,
Ramaiah Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, INDIA

Shyam Diwakar

Shyam Diwakar

Professor and Director

Amrita Mind Brain Center
Amrita University, INDIA
Stefano Panzeri

Stefano Panzeri

Director

Excellence Department of Neural Information Processing
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), GERMANY
Tapan K Gandhi

Tapan K Gandhi

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Delhi, INDIA

Thomas Gregor Issac

Thomas Gregor Issac

Associate Professor

Centre for Brain Research
IISc, INDIA

Tianming Yang

Tianming Yang

Principle Investigator

Laboratory of Neural Mechanisms of Decision Making and Cognition
Institute of Neuroscience Shanghai, CHINA
Veeky Baths

Veeky Baths

Associate Professor

Department of Biological Sciences
BITS, Pilani (K K Birla Goa Campus), INDIA

Sponsors

Indian Institute of Science

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was established in 1909 with active support from Jamsetji Tata and thus is also locally known as the “Tata Institute”. It is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in India and has the highest citation per faculty among all the universities in the world. It was granted the deemed to be university status in 1958 and the Institute of Eminence status in 2018.

Pratiksha Trust

Pratiksha Trust, founded by Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan and Mrs. Sudha Gopalakrishnan has been extending a very generous support to IISc in promoting research in brain science, data science and computing architectures and algorithms inspired by the brain.

The Pratiksha Trust has made a generous endowment for three distinguished visiting chairs at IISc in the general areas of neuromorphic computating, computational neuroscience, machine learning and data science.

Many other academic activities related to the research of this group are also supported by this endowment.