Symposium EL05-Materials and Devices for Neuromorphics, Biohybrid Systems and Smart Sensing

The symposium aims to cover the latest advancements in inorganic and organic materials for bio-inspired information processing, bio-computation, and biosensing, showcasing emerging applications in neuromorphic computing, sensing, actuation, and nanoscale bio-interfacing, along with recent advancements in algorithmic development. To highlight the importance of elements with simultaneous memory and processing capabilities towards in-memory computing, local adaptive bio-interfaces, emphasizing fundamental materials properties, novel devices harnessing physical emergent phenomena, new computing paradigms enabled by unconventional materials, and theory and simulation on materials, devices, and architectures.

Topics will include:

Bioinspired information processing
Neuromorphic computing
Computational primitives for neuromorphic engineering
Inorganic and organic materials for neuromorphic devices
Neuromorphic sensing and actuation
Adaptive bio-interfacing
Neural interface devices
Memristive materials/devices at the interface with biology
Bioelectronics, smart sensors and actuators
Neuromorphic and memristive sensors and actuators
Systems neuroscience
Algorithmic advances for neuro-inspired computing and smart sensing
Algorithm-hardware co-design for neuro-inspired computing

Invited Speakers:

Fabio Biscarini (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Sandro Carrara (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Erika Covi (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Regina Dittmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
Simone Fabiano (Linköping University, Sweden)
Dimitra Georgiadou (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
Aristide Gumyusenge (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Feng Guo (Indiana University, USA)
Hadi Heidari (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Sahika Inal (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Zeinab Jahed (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Dmitry Kireev (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Geert Langereis (imec, Netherlands)
Tae-Woo Lee (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
George Malliaras (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Dante Gabriel Muratore (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Robert Nawrocki (Purdue University, USA)
Andreas Offenhaeusser (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
Themis Prodromakis (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Shahab Rezaei-Mazinani (École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France)
Jacob Robinson (Rice University, USA)
Alberto Salleo (Stanford University, USA)
John Paul Strachan (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
Alec Talin (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Ilia Valov (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
Stefano Vassanelli (University of Padova, Italy)
Sihong Wang (The University of Chicago, USA)
Joshua Yang (University of Southern California, USA)