Click here to learn about sponsorship opportunities.
Organizing Committee
Bridging Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
Honorary Chair: Péter Érdi, Kalamazoo College, USA and Wigner Inst.,
General Co-Chairs: Chrisina Jayne, Oxford Brooks University, Oxford UK Zoltán Somogyvári, Wigner Inst., Hungary
Program Chairs: Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Technical Program Co-Chairs: Khan Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion Univ., USA Dongbin Zhao, CAS, China
Plenary Chair Richard Duro, University of A Coruña, Spain
Panels Chair: Robert Kozma, University of Memphis, USA
Special Sessions Chair: Danilo Mandic, Imperial College, UK
Tutorials Chair: Simona Doboli, Hofstra University, USA
Workshops Chair: Christina Jayne, Oxford Brookes Univ., UK
Competition Chair: Hugo Jair Escalante Balderas, National Institute of Optical and Electronic Astrophysics, Mexico
Publications Chair: Chul Sung, IBM Watson, USA
Publicity Chairs: Hava Siegelmann, Univ. Massachusetts Amherst, USA Jose Antonio Iglesias Martinez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Simone Scardapane, Sapienza University, Italy
Sponsors and Exhibit Chair: Bill Howell, Alberta, Canada
Financial Chair: Yoonsuck Choe, Texas A&M University, USA
Local Arrangements Chair: George Kampis, ELTE, Hungary András Telcs, Wigner Inst., Hungary
Web Reviews Chair: Thomasz Cholewo, IEEE, USA
Asian Pacific Liaison: Irwin King, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
Canada Liaison: Thomas Trappenberg, Dalhousie U. Canada
North Africa Liaison: Jaouad Boumhidi, FS Fez, Morocco
Americas Liaison: Marley Vellasco, Pontifícia University Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
India Liaison: Mahua Bhattacharya, IIITM, India
Neuroscience Liaison: Zoltan Nadasdy, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Machine Learning Liaison: Robi Poikar, Rowan University, USA
Robotics Liaison: Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth,UK
Industry Liaison: Danil Prokhorov, Toyota, USA
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Liwicki Marcus, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Local Coordinator: Jennifer Csatlos, Wigner Inst, Hungary