The paper entitled “In-Materio Reservoir Computing in a Sulfonated Polyaniline Network,” authored by Assistant Prof. Usami et al., published in Advanced Material was awarded by the Japan Society of Applied Physics.
Neumorph Center organized a special symposium, Material Intelligence: Highly-efficiency in-material AI computing with Suranaree University of Technology on the 22nd International Symposium on Eco-materials Processing and Design (ISEPD 2024) on January 21st – 24th at Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand and six members from the center gave invited talks and three students presented in the symposium.
We organize 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 section is a joint project with the symposium, inviting papers from researchers that are qualified to present their work in the 5th International Symposium on Neuromorphic AI Hardware.
The deadline for the submission is April 1stApril 15th (the submission is closed). Please refer to Call for papers.
| Guest Chief Editor | Hirofumi Tanaka | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| Guest Co-Editor | Konrad Szaciłowski | AGH University of Krakow |
| Guest Co-Editor | Takashi Morie | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| Guest Associate Editor | Takuya Matsumoto | Osaka University |
| Guest Associate Editor | Hakaru Tamukoh | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| Guest Associate Editor | Tsuyoshi Hasegawa | Waseda University |
| Guest Associate Editor | Masanori Takabayashi | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| Guest Associate Editor | Shusaku Nagano | Rikkyo University |
| Guest Associate Editor | Yuichi Katori | Future University Hakodate |
| Guest Associate Editor | Osamu Nomura | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| Guest Secretary | Yuichiro Tanaka | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| Guest Secretary | Yuki Usami | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| Advisory | Yoshihiko Horio | Tohoku University |
On December 4, 2023, we invited Dr. Satoshi Sonoo of Toshiba to give a lecture on large-scale language models. This lecture was also delivered as a lecture “AAR Seminar” of the Graduate School of LSSE, Kyutech.
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.
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.
March 1st (Friday) – 2nd (Saturday), 2024: Symposium
March 3rd (Sunday), 2024: VIP Excursion (only for invited speakers)
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).
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”
| 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 |
Session 1: March 2nd, 10:50-12:00 JST (UTC+9)
Session 2: March 2nd, 13:00-14:10 JST (UTC+9)
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 |
Note that you need to select “[Participant] Registration fee” in New Registration in the online payment system.
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).
| 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 |
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).
The Best Student Presentation Award
Student Presentation Award
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.
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)
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
A project proposed by the director of the center, Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka with the vice director, Prof. Hakaru Tamukoh and the external member, Prof. Yuichi Katori (Future University Hakodate) was accepted by JST ACLA-Next.
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.
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.
November 20th (Monday) – 21st (Tuesday), 2023
Day 1: 13:00 – 17:00 JST (UTC+9)
Day 2: 10:00 – 17:00 JST (UTC+9)
Day 1 13:30-14:10 Invited talk by Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Waseda University)
Title: TBA
Day 1 14:00-14:30 Invited talk2 (TBA)
Title: TBA
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
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.
Day 2 11:00-13:00
Participants will visit TOTO Meusium by bus.
Day 2 15:00-16:00
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
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 |
| Deadline for registration |
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
An advertisement of Neumorph Center was published on THE SANKEI SHIMBUN on August 4th.
The advertisement is available here.
On March 20, the Neumorph Center and Collaborative Research Center, National Institute of Technology, Ube College signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with an aim of enhancing education and research activities in the fields of materials and AI.
On February 27, 2023, we uploaded a new promotion video of the center. We have tried to make the video that is easy to understand for high school students and technical college students who are aiming to go on to our university. Please watch it.
