The Center for Computational Brain Research (CCBR) is an Interdisciplinarity
research centre located at the
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...
,
Chennai,
India. 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
Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...
professors
Partha Mitra (
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Mriganka Sur (
MIT) and Anand Raghunathan (
Purdue University).
Academic activities
Some of the teaching modules at CCBR are
neuroscience,
machine learning,
vision,
audition,
natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
and
reinforcement learning. The center has also organized an annual winter course/workshop on "Machine Intelligence and Brain Research" during the first week of January.
-
-
References
External links
Official Webpage
{{authority control
Neuroscience research centres in India
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Research institutes in Chennai
Research institutes in Tamil Nadu
Artificial intelligence laboratories
Research institutes established in 2015
2015 establishments in Tamil Nadu