This year we gladly welcome four new Kraken Crew members: Fabian, Thomas, Michael, and Rory (jointly with the Friedrich lab). We look forward to what we will learn from your cool research projects and toContinue reading
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Our work featured by The Transmitter
We are deeply honored to see our work featured in The Transmitter’s “This Paper Changed My Life.” Huge thanks to Dan Goodman for the kind words – and to our amazing community that keeps pushingContinue reading
Axel awarded an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations, Axel (woot woot), for being awarded an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship, the interim Swiss equivalent of a Marie Curie European Fellowship, to work on fundamental questions pertaining to neuronal circuit architectures and learning. WeContinue reading
Spektrum der Wissenschaft story on self-calibration in neuromorphic systems
We are very happy that in their current issue Spektrum der Wissenschaft picked up our collaboration story with Uni Heidelberg on self-calibration through surrogate gradient learning in analog neuromorphic systems.
High school students visiting the FMI
Lab members organized a station for a recent outreach event during which more than 200 high school students from Basel and surroundings visited the FMI to learn more about genetics and neuroscience research. At theContinue reading
Quantamagazine covers our work on learning on analog neuromorphic hardware
Allison Whitten wrote a nice article for Quantamagazine about our recent collaboration with Heidelberg on the BrainScaleS-2 neuromorphic chip. Analog hardware faces similar obstacles as the brain when learning: Neuronal heterogeneity means that you won’tContinue reading
Story on Spiking Neural Networks
Here is a quick shout-out to this nice news story on spiking nets and surrogate gradients by Anil Ananthaswamy, the Science Communicator in Residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley.Continue reading
Online workshop: Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators
Dan Goodman and myself are organizing an online workshop on new approaches to training spiking neural networks, Aug 31st / Sep 1st 2020. Invited speakers: Sander Bohte (CWI), Iulia M. Comsa (Google), Franz Scherr (TUG), Emre Neftci (UC Irvine),Continue reading