UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM presents " Learning and processing in spiking neuromorphic systems" Prof. André van Schaik (MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia) 19 September 2019 (Thursday) 16:00 - 17:00 Hatfield, College Lane Campus Seminar Room 1F392 (Wright Building, first floor) Everyone is welcome to attend Refreshments will be available Abstract: This presentation will cover processing of data in event-based systems, such as the data obtained from a Dynamic Vision Sensor or a Silicon Cochlea. Such data is of the form of a continuous stream of spatiotemporal events (spikes), as opposed to regularly sampled digital values in most traditional systems. To optimally use event-based data, novel algorithms for processing and learning are needed. We will cover various approaches to learning from such data, including unsupervised and supervised learning, as well as feature engineering, which will be demonstrated on example applications. About the speaker: André van Schaik is a pioneer in Neuromorphic Engineering and the director of the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems at Western Sydney University. He received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree in neuromorphic engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1998. From 1991 until 1994 he was a researcher at the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), where he developed the first commercial neuromorphic chip - the optical motion detector used in Logitech trackballs since 1994. In 1998 he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of Sydney and in 1999 he became a Senior Lecturer in their School of Electrical and Information Engineering and a Reader in 2004. In 2011 he became a full Professor at Western Sydney University. His research focuses on all aspects of neuromorphic engineering, encompassing neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, software and algorithm development, and electronic hardware design. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to Neuromorphic Circuits and Systems. He has authored more than 200 papers and is an inventor of more than 35 patents. He has founded three technology start-ups.