The fifth edition of a workshop on Brain, Computation, and Learning (BCL5) will be held at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from June 30 – July 4, 2025. The primary aim of this biennial workshop is to promote interdisciplinary research in the broad area of neuroscience and artificial intelligence in India and to promote synergistic interactions among neurobiologists and engineers. The workshop would allow young researchers to understand the diverse themes of research and appreciate the close relationships between these apparently distinct themes. The overarching theme of this year’s workshop is “Brain Co-Processors”. This is part of a bigger “Moonshot” project, details of which can be found here: https://brain-computation.iisc.ac.in/moonshot-project/. There will be five 1-day modules, namely Vision (June 30), Motor and Cognition (July 1), Clinical (July 2), NeuroEngineering (July 3) and a new feature this year, NeuroTech (July 4), where startups and companies will showcase their products in this space.

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).

The technical programs of the last two editions of this workshop (held in 2023 and 2019) are available at https://bcl.iisc.ac.in/bcl4 and  https://events.csa.iisc.ac.in/bcl2019/.