The central research focus of the NeuRonICS lab is to understand the principles of brain computation and to apply this understanding in electronic systems for building intelligent systems. Engineers have a lot to learn about computation from the brain, which has evolved over billions of years to solve difficult engineering problems. Efficient, parallel, low-power computation is a hallmark of the brain, and to be able to replicate this in electronic systems is one of the goals of the lab. Research interests of the lab span a broad range of subjects such as ASIC/FPGA VLSI design, analog IC design, brain-inspired algorithms, computational neuroscience, machine learning, and event-based sensors.
One of the most rewarding aspects of working in the NeuRonICS lab is the interdisciplinary nature of our research and collaborators. Researchers will get an opportunity to collaborate with world leaders in the field of neuromorphic engineering. At IISc, our lab works closely with various departments and centres such as the ECE, Centre for Neuroscience, and Centre for Brain research.
Media Coverage and Blogs
Neuromorphic tinyML workshop hosted jointly by IISc and the Washington University in St. Louis.
A two day hands-on Neuromorphic tinyML workshop was conducted on June 10th and 11th 2022, hosted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) jointly with the Washington University in St. Louis.
Workshop details: Click here
The following talks were held during the workshop:
1. Prof. Barani Raman: Olfactory Pattern Recognition in a Tiny Insect Brain
2. Prof. Shantanu Chakrabartty: Neuromorphic tinyML design using
Sparsity and Energy Balance Principles
3. Prof. Arun SP: How does the brain crack CAPTCHAs?
4. Prof. Chetan Singh Thakur: Neuromorphic tinyML Systems for Energy-Efficient Edge Devices
At the end of the workshop, participants demonstrated a few
Neuromorphic tinyML systems. A few of them were ported on Arduino Nano BLE Cortex-M4 MCU.
Supported by: SPARC DST IISc WashU
Talk by Dr.Chetan at ICTIC
Dr.Chetan Singh Thakur gave a talk at 2021 Intelligence in Chip: Tomorrow of Integrated Circuits (ICTIC) held on August 1- 5.
Talk title: Intelligent hardware systems mimicking neural pathways.
Invited tutorial talk at ICEE 2020
Dr. Chetan Singh Thakur gave a tutorial at the 5th International Conference on Emerging Electronics. Topic: Neuromorphic Computing
NeuRonICS lab has been awarded the STARS grant from MHRD
NeuRonICS lab has been awarded the Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS) grant from MHRD, Gov of India to build the
“Handheld electronic tool for impedance-sensing detection of mercury in water using aptamer templated metal nanoparticles”
Lakshmi Annamalai: Best startup idea pitch at EMEA workshop, Delhi
EMEA (http://www.odaa.iisc.ac.in/?page_id=2094) is a Student Research Workshop on “Brain Inspired Computing & Technologies” organized by the Broadcom Foundation. This workshop is aimed at providing graduate students an exciting opportunity to explore research collaborations in brain machine interfaces, and brain-inspired technologies and computing. This team worked on “Tactile-Vision Sensory Substitution for blind people with Neuromorphic camera” – Proposed a non-invasive technique for circumventing the loss of one sense by feeding its information through another channel. This could be leveraged to develop a fast tactile-vision vest to allow those severe vision loss to perceive the world through small vibrations on their wrist. It consists of neuromorphic camera as sensor, an action recognition system as coupling system and a tactile stimulator.
Folks from Neuronics Lab win Hackware innovation challenge organized by Schneider India
Hackware is a innovation challenge organized by Schneider Electric India. Shilpa Sangappa, Hemanth Sabella, Abhishek Moitra and Vignesh Ramanathan from Neuronics Lab emerged winners for the challenge. Out of 300 applications all over India, 23 teams got into the grand finale. This team worked on “Power optimization techniques” – Built a non-invasive, low-cost device to capture aggregated apparent power on which machine learning models are used to classify and segregate individual appliances working in the environment.
Invited talk: “Artificial Intelligence – Devices to Systems” at IIT Roorkee
NeuRonICS lab has been funded by Ashok Leyland Inc.
NeuRonICS lab has been funded by Ashok Leyland Inc. to carry out joint research projects in the area of Machine Learning and Edge Computing.
Invited talk at BCL 2019 held at IISc
Invited talk by Dr.Chetan Singh Thakur at BCL 2019 workshop held at IISc from June 24 to June 29.
Topic : Low Power Neuromorphic Systems for Edge Computing
Pratik Kumar and Abhishek Nair win best poster award at EECS 2019 at IISc
Pratik Kumar and Abhishek Nair from NeuRonICS lab win the best poster award at EECS 2019 held at IISc on April 12-13.
Poster title : Neuromorphic In-Memory Computing Framework using Memtransistor Cross-bar based Support Vector Machines”
Invited tutorial talk at ICEE conference 2018
Invited tutorial talk at ICEE conference 2018 by Dr. Chetan Singh Thakur on the topic “Neuromorphic Computing from Sensor to Systems ”
NeuRonICS lab awarded the SPARC proposal in collaboration with Prof Shantanu Chakraborty and Prof Raman Baranidharan from Washington University of St Louis
NeuRonICS lab awarded the SPARC proposal in collaboration with Prof Shantanu Chakrabartty and Prof Raman Baranidharan from Washington University of St Louis.
“Sensing-to-learn and Learning-to-sense: Exploiting Neuromorphic symbiosis of sensing, computing, memory and adaptation for designing the next-generation machine learning systems”
5 Publications including a Poster selected for ISCAS 2019
5 papers which includes a poster have been selected for ISCAS 2019 from Neuronics Lab.
Kundan Kumar and Saurabh Gupta selected for the 3rd RIKEN R-CCS HPC Youth Workshop
Kundan Kumar and Saurabh Gupta selected to “the 3rd RIKEN R-CCS HPC Youth Workshop” on Feb 15-17 (in 18-19 the 1st R-CCS International Symposium) in KOBE, JAPAN.
NeuRoNICS Lab receives funds by DST under program IMPRINT-2
NeuRonICS lab has been recently funded by the Department of Science and Technology for the development of Neuromorphic Processor under the program Impacting Research Innovation and Technology-2 (IMPRINT-2)
Invited Talk at IEEE Smart Tech 2018
Invited talk at IEEE Smart Tech 2018 by Dr. Chetan Singh Thakur on “The Future of Computing with Neuromorphic”
Kundan Kumar to represent IISc at EMEA workshop
Kundan Kumar, PhD student from Neuronics Lab has been selected to represent IISc at the EMEA Student Research Workshop for Brain Inspired Computing & Technologies to be held in Imperial College London.
Date of Workshop: 6-10 October 2018.
More Details of the workshop can be found here.
NeuroCom 2018 Workshop
Date: June 11 – 15, 2018
Venue: Room No 305, DESE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Click on the link for programme details : NeuroCom 2018
Early Career Research Award from SERB
Dr. Chetan Singh Thakur has won the prestigious “Early Career Research Award” from Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India for developing Neuromorphic processor.
Workshop on Brain, Computation, and Learning
Date: January 8 – 13, 2018
Venue: Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Click on the link for programme details and registration: http://events.csa.iisc.ac.in/bcl2018/
Neuromorphic Cognitive Computing Symposium
Date: Oct 4, 2017 (9:30 am)
Venue: ECE Golden Jubilee Hall, IISc
Click on image below for programme details:
