Neumorphセンター所属の宇佐美助教が筆頭著者の論文 “In-Materio Reservoir Computing in a Sulfonated Polyaniline Network” (Advanced Material掲載）について，当該論文の著者（田中啓文センター長，田向副センター長，田中悠一朗助教，大阪大学・松本教授，他）が第8回応用物理学会 薄膜・表面物理分科会で論文賞を受賞しました．
応用物理学会 薄膜・表面物理分科会で論文賞を受賞しました
投稿者「neuro」のアーカイブ
ISEPD2024にて特別シンポジウムを開催しました
2024年1月21日-24日にタイ・ナコーンラーチャシーマーにて開催された「The 22nd International Symposium on Eco-materials Processing and Design (ISEPD 2024)」にて，特別シンポジウム「Material Intelligence: Highly-efficiency in-material AI computing」を開催し，当センターの6名の構成員が招待講演，3名の学生が一般講演を行いました．
論文誌NOLTAのSpecial Sectionの論文を募集します
オープアクセスの論文誌「Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA), IEICE」の「Special Section on Recent Progress in Neuromorphic AI Hardware」を特別企画しています．この特別セクションは2024年3月開催の第5回ニューロモルフィックAIハードウェア国際シンポジウムとの共同プロジェクトであり，当該シンポジウムにおける発表者による論文を募集します．
論文投稿締切は2024年4月1日4月15日（募集は終了しました）です．詳細な情報はCall for papersを参照ください．
委員一覧
| Guest Chief Editor | 田中 啓文 | 九州工業大学 |
| Guest Co-Editor | シャチホフスキー コンラッド | AGH University of Krakow |
| Guest Co-Editor | 森江 隆 | 九州工業大学 |
| Guest Associate Editor | 松本 卓也 | 大阪大学 |
| Guest Associate Editor | 田向 権 | 九州工業大学 |
| Guest Associate Editor | 長谷川 剛 | 早稲田大学 |
| Guest Associate Editor | 高林 正典 | 九州工業大学 |
| Guest Associate Editor | 永野 修作 | 立教大学 |
| Guest Associate Editor | 香取 勇一 | 公立はこだて未来大学 |
| Guest Associate Editor | 野村 修 | 九州工業大学 |
| Guest Secretary | 田中 悠一朗 | 九州工業大学 |
| Guest Secretary | 宇佐美 雄生 | 九州工業大学 |
| Advisory | 堀尾 喜彦 | 東北大学 |
東芝・園尾様にセミナーいただきました
2023年12月4日，東芝デジタルソリューションズ株式会社の園尾聡博士をお招きし，大規模言語モデルに関するご講演をいただきました．当該ご講演は本学大学院生命体工学研究科の講義「AARセミナー」として配信しました．
The 5th International Symposium on Neuromorphic AI Hardware
News
March 28th: Info about call for papers – NOLTA, IEICE is updated.
March 3rd: Info about student paper award is updated.
Feb 26th: Info about registration is updated.
Feb 21st: Info about oral & poster session is updated.
Feb 16th: Info about sponsor is updated.
Feb 9th: Time schedule is updated.
Feb 5th: Info about sponsor is updated.
Feb 2nd: The deadline for abstract submission is extended.
Jan 30th: Info about payment method is updated.
Jan 29th: Info about invited speakers is updated.
Jan 16th: Info about invited speakers and committee is updated.
Jan 10th: The registration form is open.
Dec 10th: The abstract submission form is open.
Dec 7th: Info about invited speakers and abstract submission deadline is updated.
Dec 6th: Info about call for papers – NOLTA, IEICE is updated.
Nov 30th: The website is open.
About Symposium
In March 2024, the 5th International Symposium on Neuromorphic AI Hardware will be organized by the Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology. The aim of the symposium is to provide an opportunity to present and discuss the latest research regarding Neuromorphic AI Hardware.
Date
March 1st (Friday) – 2nd (Saturday), 2024: Symposium
March 3rd (Sunday), 2024: VIP Excursion (only for invited speakers)
Venue
RIHGA Royal Hotel Kokura
2-14-2 Asano, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 802-0001 Japan
Please reserve your own accommodation (the committee will not prepare for participants).
Invited Talk
Day & Time: March 1st, 13:30-14:10 JST (UTC+9)
Prof. Carlo Ricciardi (Politecnico di Torino)
“Self-organizing Nanowire Networks for Reservoir Computing and Memory Encoding”
Day & Time: March 1st, 17:00-17:40 JST (UTC+9)
Dr. Koji Terada (Preferred Robotics, Inc.)
“Kachaka: Revolutionizing Home and Business Environments with Advanced Autonomous
Service Robotics”
Day & Time: March 2nd, 14:45-15:25 JST (UTC+9)
Prof. Jordi Madrenas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
“Progress on Digital Hardware for Spiking Neural Networks: Plasticity, Model Experiments and
Scalability Considerations”
Day & Time: March 2nd, 15:40-16:20 JST (UTC+9)
Dr. Kazuya Terabe (National Institute of Material Science)
“Ionic Nanoarchitectonics for the Creation of Neuromorphic Devices with Various Functions”
Oral Session
| Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa | Temperature Dependent Operation of a Ag2S Island Network-based Physical Reservoir |
| Ms. Hsiao Woan-Jen | A Novel Near-memory Computing Architecture for Recurrent Neural Networks with SRAM and RRAM |
| Dr. John Rex Mohan | Information Processing Capacity of Dipolar Coupled Spin Hall Oscillators |
| Dr. Yusuke Sakemi | Spike-Based In-Memory Computing Circuits Using Open Source PDK |
| Mr. Yinhao Xu | Multivariate Chaotic Time Series Prediction with Neuromorphic Networks |
| Dr. Gisya Abdi | Impact of Cationic and Anionic Counterparts in Halobismuth(III) Salts on the Functionality of Artificial Synapses |
| Mr. Naruki Hagiwara | Highly-Integrable Analogue Reservoir Circuits Based on a Simple Cycle Architecture |
| Mr. Tomoro Marcus Jones | Improvement of Read-out Circuit for Non-volatile Memory Embedded In-memory Computing Architectures |
| Mr. Keiichi Nakanishi | Bidirectional 2D Reservoir Network for Image Anomaly Detection without any Training |
| Mr. Rio Tomioka | Numerical Simulation on Wavefront Transformation using Self-referential Holographic Deep Neural Network |
Poster Session
Session 1: March 2nd, 10:50-12:00 JST (UTC+9)
Session 2: March 2nd, 13:00-14:10 JST (UTC+9)
Registration
Registration is required to participate in the symposium (even if you are a presenter or a virtual participant). If you would like to cancel the registration, please contact the secretariat (neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp).
Payment for in-person participation:
Please pay the registration fee by selecting one of the following options:
– Cash at the venue’s reception: Additional cost (5000 JPY) is required.
– Online payment system: You may pay by the online payment system even onsite. Please show payment results at the reception.
Payment for virtual participation:
Please pay the registration fee via the online payment system.
| Plenary/Invited Speaker | 0 JPY |
| In-person (Internal member of Neumorph Center *1) | 20000 JPY |
| In-person (External member of Neumorph Center *2) | 20000 JPY |
| In-person (Full) | 20000 JPY |
| In-person (Student) | 5000 JPY |
| Virtual (Internal member of Neumorph Center *1) | 20000 JPY |
| Virtual (External member of Neumorph Center *2) | 10000 JPY |
| Virtual (Full) | 10000 JPY |
| Virtual (Student) | 0 JPY |
*2 External member of Neumorph Center is an advisor of Neumorph Center, not working at Kyutech
Note that you need to select “[Participant] Registration fee” in New Registration in the online payment system.
Abstract Submission
We invite the submission of original research contributions relating to neuromorphic AI hardware. Authors willing to present may submit 1-page abstract using the following template via the following submission form by the deadline. The submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the committee and accepted ones will be assigned either oral presentation or poster presentation.
Topics are as follows:
– Material Engineering
– Electric Circuit System
– Computational Model
– Robotics
– Others related to neuromorphic AI hardware
The regulation is as follows:
– Manuscript must be written in English.
– Manuscript must be one page of A4.
– Top, bottom, left, and right margins must be 35.01mm, 30mm, 30mm, and 30mm, respectively.
– Font must be Times New Roman.
– Font size of title must be 14pt (bold).
– Font size of authors must be 12pt.
– Font size of other areas must be 10pt.
– Line spacing must be one line.
– Title, authors, and affiliations must be included.
– Acknowledgment and references can be included.
– Figures and tables can be included.
– Manuscript must be a PDF smaller than 1MB.
Please use the following template (MS Word) for the manuscript.
If you have a problem regarding the submission of your manuscript, please contact the secretariat (neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp).
Important dates
| Deadline for registration (In-person) | February 23rd (Friday), 2024 |
| Deadline for registration (Virtual) | February 29th (Thursday), 2024 |
| Deadline for abstract submission | 16:00 JST on February 16th (Friday), 2024 |
| Notification of acceptance | February 13th (Tuesday), 2024 |
Presentation Instruction
Please present in English. Presentation time will be notified in the e-mail of notification of acceptance.
Oral presentation (In-person)
Please prepare a computer compatible with HDMI output. The computer will be connected to a streaming device via HDMI cable and your slide show will be broadcasted to a venue screen and Zoom (therefore, in-person presenters do not need to install Zoom client on the computer).
Please avoid using optical laser pointers because the pointer will not be broadcasted to Zoom. Please use software laser pointer functions (e.g. laser pointer of MS PowerPoint) instead of them. We will also prepare Logicool SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION REMOTE (driver installation is required).
Oral presentation (Virtual)
Please prepare a computer compatible with Zoom. Your slide show, video, and voice will be broadcasted to the venue and Zoom. Therefore, virtual presenters need to install Zoom client on the computer.
Poster presentation (In-person only)
Please prepare a poster of A0 size (vertical orientation). Posters will be pinned by thumbtacks (the committee will prepare).
Student Presentation Award
The Best Student Presentation Award
- Kazuki Wada (Kyutech): “Data-driven Posture Control of Tensegrity Manipulator Using IMU Measurements”
Student Presentation Award
- Dang Thien Tan (Kyutech): “Examining the Ability to Retrieve Historical Data Attributes in an Ag/Ag2S Nanoparticle Network Reservoir Computing”
- Yusuke Nakaoka (Kyutech): “A Study of Reservoir Computing Performance by Orientation Dependence of Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) Thin Films”
- Takafumi Kunimi (Hokkaido Univ.): “A Novel Dynamic Predictive Coding Network with Augmented Direct Feedback Alignment towards its Physical Implementation”
- Shohei Tatsumi (Hokkaido Univ.): “Physical Reservoirs Replication using a Small-scale Digital Calibration Reservoir”
- Yuka Shishido (Kyutech): “An Efficient Spatial Representation Method for Memory-based Hippocampus-inspired Model”
- Tomoro Marcus Jones (Kyutech): “Improvement of Read-out Circuit for Non-volatile Memory Embedded In-memory Computing Architectures”
- Ryuta Toyoda (Kyutech): “High Sensitivity Motion Capture Under Low-light Conditions Using EVS”
Call for Papers – NOLTA, IEICE [Optional]
Neumorph Center organizes the Special Section on Recent Progress in Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA), IEICE, which is an open-access journal. The special session is a joint project with the symposium, inviting papers from researchers that are qualified to present their work in the symposium.
The deadline for the paper submission is April 1st April 15th, 2024. Please refer to the call for papers.
Committee
Chair
Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Vice Chair
Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Executive Committee
Katsumi Tateno (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Osamu Nomura (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yoichi Horibe (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Terumasa Tokunaga (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yasuhiro Fukuma (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yuki Usami (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Secretary
Yuichiro Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Secretariat
Aki Fujita (Kyushu Institute of Technology) – Finance
Mamiko Yonehara (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Mizuho Shimoda (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Secretariat: neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp
Public Relations
Keiichiro Yonezawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Cooperation
Sponsor
Call for sponsors
We are excited to announce an opportunity for companies to become sponsors for the symposium. By participating as a sponsor, you can show the brand advertisement in the program books and broadcast it to the venue during breaks. Additionally, you can provide a brand logo to put on the website.
Sponsorship fee: 50000 JPY
Please pay the sponsorship fee via the following online payment system. Note that you need to select “[Sponsor] Sponsorship fee” in New Registration.
Please contact us if you are interested in:
Secretariat: neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp
ALCA-Nextに採択されました
当センターセンター長の田中啓文教授が，同センター副センター長の田向権教授，同センター外部委員で公立はこだて未来大学の香取勇一教授と共同提案した「超低消費電力マテリアルベースAIエッジシステムの開発」が，JST戦略的創造研究推進事業 ALCA-Nextに採択されました．
詳細な情報については本学のプレスリリースをご参照ください．
Core-to-Core Satellite Symposium of MNC 2023 – Materials Meet Robots 2023 –
News
Nov 21st: The symposium is closed.
Nov 8th: The registration is closed.
Nov 1st: The registration deadline has been extended.
Oct 20th: The schedule is updated.
Oct 19th: Company Tour is updated.
Oct 11th: The schedule is updated.
Sep 13th: The registration form is open.
Sep 12th: The website is open.
About Symposium
In November 2023, Core-to-Core Satellite Symposium of MNC 2023 – Materials Meet Robots 2023 – will be organized by Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology. This symposium is a satellite symposium of 36th International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC 2023). The aim of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for discussion with researchers of material science and robotics and to make new ideas for research collaborations.
Date
November 20th (Monday) – 21st (Tuesday), 2023
Day 1: 13:00 – 17:00 JST (UTC+9)
Day 2: 09:00 – 16:00 JST (UTC+9)
Event
Lecture
Day 1 13:30-14:00 Invited talk1 by Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Waseda University)
Title: Electrolyte-based Physical Reservoir
Day 1 14:00-14:30 Invited talk2 by Prof. Konrad Szacitowski (AGH University of Science and Technology)
Title: Reservoir computing for sensing applications
Ideathon
The aim of this ideathon is to come up with new ideas for research collaborations of material science and robotics. Several teams including researchers/students of material science and robotics will be organized, discuss some ideas, and give presentations of the ideas. The presentation will be evaluated and the winner will get an extra prize.
Day 1 15:00-15:10: Introduction
Day 1 15:10-15:30: Team building
Day 1 15:30-: Discussion
Day 2 09:00-11:00: Presentation
Day 2 13:00-13:30: Award ceremony
Robot Demonstration
Day 2 11:00-13:00
Participants have lunch while watching a robot working as a waiter at a real restaurant. The other robot with a material-based sensor is presented. These robots are presented by Hibikino-Musashi@Home, which is a robot developing team of Kyushu Institute of Technology.
Company Tour
Day 2 15:00-16:00
Participants will visit TOTO Meusium by bus.
Venue
Venue: Conference Center of Kitakyushu Science and Research Park
Address: 2-3 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, 808-0135, Japan
How to go to the venue From Fukuoka Airport 1. 6 minutes via Fukuoka City Subway to Hakata Station 2. 30 minutes via JR to Orio Station (Limited express) 3. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue From Kitakyushu Airport 1. 78 minutes via Airport Bus to Gakken Hibikino From Hakata Station 1. 30 minutes via JR to Orio Station (Limited express) 2. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue From Kokura Station 1. 25 minutes via JR to Orio Station 2. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue
Registration
If you would like to cancel the registration, please contact the secretariat (neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp).
Please pay the registration fee in cash at the venue’s reception.
| Internal member of Neumorph Center *1 (Non-student) | 5,000 JPY |
| External member of Neumorph Center *2 (Non-student) | 5,000 JPY |
| Non-member (Non-student) | 5,000 JPY |
| Student | 0 JPY |
*2 External member of Neumorph Center is an advisory member of Neumorph Center
If you are not sure if you are a member or not, please contact the center.
Important dates
| Deadline for registration |
Committee
Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yuki Usami (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yuichiro Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Secretariat: neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp
当センターの広告が新聞に掲載されました
当センターの広告が8月4日付の産経新聞九州山口版に掲載されました．
広告はこちらのリンクよりご覧いただけます．
宇部高専と包括連携協定を締結
令和5年3月20日，Neumorphセンターと宇部工業高等専門学校地域共同テクノセンターが，双方のマテリアル・AI分野の教育・研究活動の充実を目的に，包括連携協定を締結しました．
報道はこちら：宇部日報（2023年3月22日）
新しいセンターの紹介ビデオを公開しました
令和5年2月27日，当センターHPに掲載しているセンター紹介ビデオを更新し，新しいビデオを公開しました．これから本学への進学を目指す高校生や高専生にもわかりやすい内容になるように心がけて動画を制作しております．是非ご覧ください．
