updates

• January : 

  • BSB delivered a 90 minutes Lecture on Neural Computation and Applications at the UGC - Malaviya Mission Teachers Training Institute, Goa University. (Conducted online)

  • BSB on a collaborative visit to nimhans bengaluru transcranial stimulation lab.

• December: Congratulations to Swapna Sasi for making it to completing her thesis draft and completing the pre-submission Seminar successfully! 

Her Thesis is titled "In silico modelling of brain rhythms with a focus on biomarkers of Schizophrenia"

We wish her the very best for her final submission during 2024. 

• December: Congratulations to Aditya Agarwal for successfully completing his On-Campus Undergraduate Research Thesis with the BINN lab. His thesis is titled "Linking Local Field Potentials with Spikes" and available to peruse on the Publications page.

• December: Congratulations to Tanmay Bankar for successfully completing his Off-Campus Undergraduate Research Thesis --- with the KEDRI lab, under the primary supervision of Prof Nik Kasabov and co-supervision of Ms. Iman Abouhassan, --- and with the BINN lab, under the co-supervision of BSB. The thesis is titled "Enhancing Visualization and Interpretability in NeuCube With a Case Study on Stock Price Prediction". Available to peruse on the Publications page.

• November: Submitted the AVAM paper in collaboration with Prof Nik Kasabov's team and our undergrad students Dharmik Patel, Naman Aggarwal and Tanmay Bankar, for review.

• October: Welcome to Joshua, Vaughan, Issiah, Duane and Leo for starting their External Undergraduate Research Thesis with BINN Lab.

• July - September: Congratulations to Leo Barros from Don Bosco Engineering College for completing his Undergraduate Research Internship. Available to peruse on the Publications page.

• 27th, 28th and 29th September: 3 papers presented (Oral) @ the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2023) (https://e-nns.org/icann2023/)  of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). 

  • • Congratulations to Akhilesh Adithya (UG student at our Institute) and big thanks to Michael Hopkins from the SpiNNaker team, University of Manchester, for the co-supervision. 

    • Congratulations to PhD Scholars Swapna Sasi and Enuganti Pavan Kumar.

• Conducted on 21st September: TUTORIAL – HALF DAY SESSION - Other Pieces of the Puzzle: Research Funding, Publishing, Mentoring

@ The Third International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence, Hyderabad, September 2023

• 8th September: Research meet on "The Virtual Brain (TVB): an introduction". Presentation led by Leo Barros (UG intern), assisted by Raju. In attendance: Abhishek Mishra, Swapna Sasi, BSB, UG thesis students from Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa (Joshua, Vaughan, Duane, Isiah)

• 8th September: CONGRATULATIONS to Abhishek Mishra for clearing the PhD Qualifiers!

• 26th August: Finally wrapped up the SERB CRG 2019/003534, albeit after Lots of paper work, and running around from office to office, for signatures and finalising all expenses.

• August: Submitted the PAMET paper for review in collaboration with Prof Nik Kasabov's team and our undergraduate students Tanmay Bankar and Rishabh.

• August: Happy to Welcome PS Raju and Indira Raut to our Team! 

  • • Indira is currently in employment with the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), and will be pursuing part-time PhD with us. She will be co-supervised by Prof Ashwin Srinivasan

    • Raju joined under the DBT funds as a Project Associate and will be pursuing full time PhD.

• July-August: The review paper on AI-based chatbots is finally ready and submitted for review. Meanwhile it is uploaded on Arxiv - see the publications tab.

• June-July: Summer Research visit by BSB to the Advanced Processor Technologies, SpiNNaker lab at the University of Manchester, School of Computer Science.

• 13th June: BSB attended the Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (ADSAI) conference organised by the Institute of Data Science, University of Manchester. Venue: Manchester Alliance Business School.

• 8th May: Conducted Session on Brain-inspired Computing for Undergraduate students of Computer Engineering from local Colleges (missed on updating with photos and session details - TO BE DONE) 

• Happy to welcome PS Raju on board on this project. (Currently inviting Applications for Junior Research Fellow Position to work in a Department of Bio-Technology (DBT) funded project - for a period of 3 years. We encourage applicants to apply to the call for PhD positions by BITS Pilani Goa Campus. The selected candidate will work in the area of Computational Neurology (see here for an introduction to the area) and will be working in collaboration with Doctors, locally as well as in other reputed Medical Institutions in India.)

• March: Visit by BSB to Teresa Serrano Gottaredona's lab at the Instituto de Microelectronica, Seville (Spain) as a part of the collaborative work on the SERB CRG project.

• Vibhav will continue to work as a student intern with BINN Lab from February to June. He will be funded by Professional Development Funds allocated to the PI.

• 24th January: BSB Delivered a Lecture on Brain inspired neural networks and applications at the Faculty Development Programme organised by Padre Conceigo College of Engineering (PCCE), Goa.

• January 2023: Abhishek Mishra joins BINN-lab as part time PhD student - - welcome Abhishek! He will be working in the broad area of Computational Neurology