Center for Computational Brain Research

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Center for Computational Brain Research, IIT Madras
AbbreviationCCBR
Formation2015
TypePublic
HeadquartersChennai, India
Location
  • IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036
Founder
Kris Gopalakrishnan
Parent organization
IIT Madras, India
WebsiteOfficial 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".

Research activities

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 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

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
  1. SV Krishna Chaitanya (8 January 2017). "Decoding the human brain". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  2. "Partha Mitra". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  3. "Welcome to the Laboratory of Mriganka Sur". MIT. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  4. "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.
  5. 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.
  6. "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.
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