Center for Computational Brain Research
12°59′29″N 80°14′01″E / 12.99151°N 80.23362°E
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| Abbreviation | CCBR |
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| Formation | 2015 |
| Type | Public |
| Headquarters | Chennai, India |
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Founder | Kris Gopalakrishnan |
Parent organization | IIT Madras, India |
| Website | Official webpage |
The Center for Computational Brain Research (CCBR) is an Interdisciplinarity research centre located at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.[1] CCBR was set up in 2015 with funding from the co-founder of Infosys, Kris Gopalakrishnan. The stated objective of the center is "to explore the interface between Neuroscience and Engineering disciplines".[citation needed]
Research activities
[edit]The two broad areas of research at the center are:
- to exploit engineering tools for analysing the structure and activity of neural circuits
- advancing machine intelligence with brain-inspired hardware and software architecture.
The center has three chairs with an endowment of ₹100 million each. These chairs are currently[when?] held by distinguished Indian American professors Partha Mitra (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),[2] Mriganka Sur (MIT)[3] and Anand Raghunathan (Purdue University).[4]
Academic activities
[edit]Some of the teaching modules at CCBR are neuroscience, machine learning, vision, audition, natural language processing and reinforcement learning.[5] The center has also organized an annual winter course/workshop on "Machine Intelligence and Brain Research" during the first week of January.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ SV Krishna Chaitanya (8 January 2017). "Decoding the human brain". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ^ "Partha Mitra". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ^ "Welcome to the Laboratory of Mriganka Sur". MIT. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ^ "Purdue professor in India is part of team unraveling how the brain works, with applications to computing - Purdue University" (Press release). Purdue University. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- "Anand Raghunathan's webpage". Purdue University. Retrieved 11 January 2019. - ^ Yash Murty. "Course Contents". CCBR. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- "Neuroscience curriculum soon in IIT Madras". The Hindu BusinessLine. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019. - ^ "IIT-Madras winter course on machine intelligence and brain research begins". The Indian Express. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- Sindhu Hariharan (3 January 2019). "Registrations double for IIT-M brain research course". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- "IIT Madras Winter Course On Machine Intelligence And Brain Research Begins". NDTV. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
