Brain inspired Neural Network (BiNN) Lab

The Brain Inspired Neural Networks (BINN) Lab @ BITS Pilani Goa campus falls under the purview of the Data Science Research Group of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS). The lab comprise a small team of undergraduate students and Research scholars, led by Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya (BSB), who are fascinated with the areas of neural networks and/or neuroscience in particular, and artificial intelligence in general. Our research interests are two-fold:

BSB acknowledges the funding support by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Core Research Grant (CRG/2019/003534), and the Research Initiation Grants by the host Institute (BITS Pilani) that allowed for initiating lab research activities. BSB is a visiting researcher at the University of Manchester and acknowledges support from the SpiNNaker team by hosting her during the summer months, as well as continuing collaboration on research projects. Currently, she is supported by the Computational Biology theme funds as a part of the DBT Builder project No. BT/INF/22/SP42543/2021 awarded to BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus.


We take pride in all our Undergraduate and Masters students who have worked enthusiastically on their Projects, Theses, and Research practice; we are also proud of all the External Undergraduate students who have worked dedicatedly during their internship or theses at our lab. Some of these student project report/theses are highlighted on this site (see here); several others were in fact published successfully at international conferences (see here).


Note that along with BINN, we are also interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques that are destined to define the future of humanity, indirectly or otherwise. For example see our short review paper on AI for assistive healthcare (currently under review; arxiv link); one of our Doctoral students is working on Reasoning in AI. We are always looking for bright minds to join the team. Expression of interest to join us or associated labs are always welcome from potential PhD scholars, at any stage of their career or life.