Wulfram Gerstner is Director of the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience LCN at the EPFL. He studied physics at the universities of Tubingen and Munich and received a PhD from the Technical University of Munich. His research in computational neuroscience concentrates on models of spiking neurons, the dynamics of spiking neural networks and spike-timing dependent plasticity. More recently, he got interested in generalizations of Hebbian learning in the form of multi-factor learning rules and in the role of surprise for learning. He currently has a joint appointment at the School of Life Sciences and the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at the EPFL. He teaches courses for Physicists, Computer Scientists, Mathematicians, and Life Scientists. He is the recipient of the Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2018 and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Germany).

Giacomo Indiveri is Professor of Neuromorphic Cognitive Systems at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. He holds an MSc degree in electrical engineering and a PhD degree in computer science. His interests lie in the design of mixed signal neuromorphic electronic systems and learning circuits. 

Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang is a Distinguished Chair Professor Emeritus of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, Chancellor Emeritus of UC Merced, and President Emeritus of KAIST. He has published over 500 journal and conference papers, and ten books, and holds 16 patents. Before returning to academia in 1985, he led the development of the world’s premier fully-CMOS 32-bit VLSI microprocessor chipsets for telecommunication and computing applications as a technical supervisor of AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

He has received honors, including a multitude of best paper awards, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame induction, Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientists Award, IEEE Millennium Medal, IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Award, IEEE CAS Society Technical Excellence Award, the US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award, IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award, IEEE CAS Society John Choma Education Award, Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award, and distinguished alumnus awards from UC Berkeley, The University at Buffalo, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Yonsei University. He served three full years in the Korean Air Force (the class of 111-gi) before entering and studying electronics for three years at Yonsei University. Under a student exchange program, he transferred to Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1969.

Dr. Kang is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a life member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering, Korea. He received his B.S. degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, in 1970, an honorary B.S degree from Yonsei University, an M.S. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975, all in electrical engineering. His research interest includes modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices, memristors and memristive systems, low-power VLSI circuit design, nano-bioelectronic circuits, and neuromorphic computing.

J. Joshua Yang is a professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was a professor of the ECE department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst between 2015 and 2020. His current research interest is Post-CMOS hardware for neuromorphic computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, where he published several pioneering papers and holds 120 granted and about 60 pending US Patents. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Neuromorphic Computing Technical Committee, a recipient of the Powell Faculty Research Award and a recipient of UMass distinguished faculty lecturer and UMass Chancellor's Medal. He serves on the Advisory Boards of a number of prime international journals and conferences, including serving as an associate editor of Science Advances. Dr. Yang is a Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field and an IEEE fellow for his contributions to resistive switching materials and devices for nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing.

Arindam Basu received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in ECE from the I.I.T, Kharagpur, India, and the M.S. degree in
Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in ECE from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA, USA. He is currently a Professor with the Department of EE, City University of Hong Kong and was a tenured faculty at NTU, Singapore previusly.

Dr. Basu was included in Georgia Tech Alumni Association’s 40 under 40 list in 2021 and was awarded the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Asia Pacific Award in 2012. He also received the Prime Minister of India Gold Medal from I.I.T Kharagpur in 2005. He and his students have received several best paper awards and nominations in IEEE conferences.

He has served as IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer from 2016 to 2017 and currently serves IEEE in various roles such as TC Chair, Associate editor of journals etc.

Donhee Ham, Ph.D., is Gordon McKay Professor of Harvard University and Samsung Fellow. https://www.donheehamlab.org 

Dr Brett Kagan is the Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs, a Melbourne based start-up committed to building a new generation of Synthetic Biological Intelligence by integrating living brain cells with silicon and leveraging their computational power. Dr Kagan has previously completed a PhD at the Florey Institute through the University of Melbourne in stem cell therapy for neonatal brain injury. Prior to this, he has conducted research with a medical education consortium focusing on primary health care objectives and received numerous grants and awards supporting this work. Before joining Cortical Labs, Dr Kagan worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute and engaged in scientific and regulatory affairs consulting work in the biotechnology and nutraceutical industries. Dr Kagan has a strong interest in the fundamentals of intelligence along with the philosophical and scientific interface which drives investigations in this area. He is a strong advocate for improving general scientific literacy and the involvement of empirical evidence in policy development.

Prof. T. Venkatesan is currently the Director of the Center for Quantum Research and Technology (Professor of Physics and ECE) at University of Oklahoma, and Scientific affiliate at NIST Gaithersburg. He is also the founding Director of the Center of Optimal Materials for Emerging Technologies (COMET) at OU. Prior to this he was Director of the Nano Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUSNNI) where he was a Professor of ECE, Physics, MSE and NGS. He wore various hats at Bell Labs and Bellcore before becoming a Professor at University of Maryland. As the inventor of the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) process, he has over 800 papers and 34 patents and is globally among the top one hundred physicists (ranked at 66 in 2000) in terms of his citations (Over 51,186 with a hirsch Index of 115-Google Scholar). He has graduated over 56 PhDs, 35 Post Docs and over 35 undergraduates. He is also the founder and Chairman of Neocera, and Neocera Magma, companies specializing in PLD and magnetic field imaging systems and co-founder of Blue Wave Semiconductors. He recently helped launch two healthcare companies in Singapore, Cellivate and Breathonix. Close to 12 of the researchers (PhD students and Post Docs) under him have become entrepreneurs starting over 25 different commercial enterprises.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), National Academy of Inventors (USA), Singapore National Academy of Science, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Academy, World Innovation Foundation, American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials, Fellow of the winner of the Bellcore Award of excellence, George E. Pake Prize awarded by APS (2012), Distinguished Lectureship on the Applications of Physics Award- APS (2020), President’s gold medal of the Institute of Physics, Singapore, Guest Professor at Tsinghua University, past member of the Physics Policy Committee (Washington DC), the Board of Visitors at UMD and the Chairman, Forum of Industry and Applications of Physics at APS. He was awarded the outstanding alumnus award from two Indian Institute of Technologies- Kanpur (2015) and Kharagpur (2016), India.