Activities
Planned activities generally deal with:
organization of special issues in reputable journals;
organization of special sessions/workshops at major (IEEE) conferences;
tutorial/seminar presentations at conferences and research institutions;
supervision of networking activities and scientific/technical agreements among academic institutions and SMEs;
disseminating relevant resources such as software, benchmarking results, tutorial slides, surveys, etc.
Activities carried out in 2021:
Conference organization:
• Publicity Chair: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Conference: ICONIP 2021
Special sessions, workshops/symposiums, and competitions:
• Special session: “Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Learning Algorithms”
Conference: ICONIP 2021
Organizers: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
• Special session: “Advances in deep and shallow machine learning algorithms for biomedical data and imaging”
Conference: ICONIP 2021
Organizers: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India), C.T. Lin, Kai-Lung Hua
• Special session: “Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Learning Algorithms”
Conference: IJCNN 2021
Organizers: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India),
M. Panella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
• Invited Session: “Industrial Intelligence in Mining & Metallurgy Processes”
Conference: 3rd International Conference on Industrial Artificial Intelligence
Chairs: Ping Zhou (Northeastern University, China), Wei Dai
• Invited Session: “AI-Driven Operational Optimization and Control of Metallurgical Process”
Conference: 33th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2021)
Chair: Ping Zhou (Northeastern University, China)
• Special session: “Transparent and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Health”
Conference: IJCNN 2021
Chair: J. D. Martín Guerrero (Universitat de València, Spain)
• Special session: “Dependable AI for Autonomous Vehicles (DAIAV)”
Conference: 19th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2021)
Organizers: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy), Georg Macher (Technical University of Graz, Austria),
Salvatore Petroni (Marelli)
• Special session: “Randomization in Deep Learning”
Conference: 16th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2021)
Organizers: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy),
P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
M. Panella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
• Special session: “Reservoir Computing: Advances in Models, Applications, and Implementations”
Conference: IJCNN 2021
Organizers: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy), Azarakhsh Jalalvand (Ghent University-imec, Belgium),
Kohei Nakajima (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Workshop: 1st International Workshop on Machine Learning for Irregular Time-series (ECML-PKDD) 2021
Organizers: Massimiliano Ruocco (SINTEF Digital / Norwegian University of Science and Technology),
Erlend Aune (BI / Norwegian University of Science and Technology),
Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa).
• Workshop: “Deep Learning in Unconventional Neuromorphic Hardware” (DLUNH-21, IJCNN 2021)
Organizers: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy), Daniel Brunner (FEMTO-ST, France),
Miguel C. Soriano (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain),
Xavier Porte (FEMTO-ST, France), Nadezhda Semenova (FEMTO-ST, France),
Irene Estebanez (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain).
Tutorials, keynote and plenary talks, and webinars:
• Tutorial: “Randomization Based Deep and Shallow Learning Methods for Classification and Forecasting”
Conference: IJCNN 2021
Speakers: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
M. Panella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
• Tutorial: “Reservoir Computing: Randomized Recurrent Neural Networks”
Conference: IJCNN 2021
Speaker: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Tutorial: “Deep Randomized Neural Networks”
Conference: 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21)
Speaker: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Invited Webinar: “Reservoir Computing: Fast Deep Learning for Sequences”
Speaker: Alexander Thamm (GmbH)
• Invited Webinar: “Hyperdimensional Computing in Distributed Randomized Neural Networks”
Speaker: Antonello Rosato (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
• Keynote speaker: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Conference: ICAC 2021
• Keynote speaker: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Conference: ICICCA 2021
• Keynote speaker: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Conference: ICMLT 2021
• Keynote speaker: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Conference: SAMSI 2021
Journal special issues:
• Special issue: “Machine Learning and Physics”
Journal: Journal Applied Sciences
Editor: J. D. Martín Guerrero (Universitat de València, Spain)
• Special issue: “New Frontiers in Extremely Efficient Reservoir Computing”
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Editors: Gouhei Tanaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa , Italy),
Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa, Italy), Juan Pablo Ortega (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland),
Akira Hirose (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Special issue: “Trends in Reservoir Computing”
Journal: Journal Cognitive Computation
Editors: Simone Scardapane (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy), Claudio Gallicchio (Univeristy of Pisa, Italy),
Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa, Italy), Miguel C. Soriano (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
• Special issue: “Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Learning Algorithms”
Journal: Applied Soft Computing
Editors: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India),
Le Zhang (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore)
• Special issue: “Computational Intelligence in Electrical Systems”
Journal: Energies
Editors: M. Panella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy),
A. Rosato (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy),
R. Araneo (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
Other events aiming to promote the research, application and education relevant to Neural Networks:
• Tutorial: “Quantum Machine Learning: a tutorial”
Neurocomoputing (estimated publication date: September-October 2021)
Speaker: J. D. Martín Guerrero (Universitat de València, Spain)
• Research seminar spring 2021: “Simula@BI”
Hosted by the Department of Data Science and Analytics at the
BI Norwegian Business School “Deep Randomized Neural Networks”, 11 March 2021
Activities completed in 2022:
Conference organization:
• Founding Chair: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Conference: 4th International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP 2022)
Special sessions, workshops/symposiums, and competitions:
• Special session: "Reservoir Computing: algorithms, implementations and applications"
Conference: WCCI 2022
Chair: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Special session: "Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic Architectures in Neural Networks"
Conference: WCCI 2022
Chairs: A. Rosato and M. Panella (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Tutorials, keynote and plenary talks, and webinars:
• Keynote speaker: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Conference: FDP on Innovations and Research Trends in Artificial Intelligence
• Keynote speaker: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Conference: Joint Winter Faculty Development Program on Machine Learning for Computer Vision
• Keynote speaker: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Conference: APNNS/IEEE-CIS Education Forum Series (DLAI6 Summer School)
• Tutorial: “Randomization Based Deep and Shallow Learning Methods for Classification and Forecasting”
Conference: WCCI 2022
Speaker: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Journal special issues:
• Special issue: “Learning from Imperfect Data for Industrial Automation”
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Editors: Ping Zhou (State Key Laboratory, Northeastern University Shenyang, China); et al.
• Special issue: “Advances in multi-modal deep and shallow neural networks for neuroimaging applications”
Journal: Cognitive Computation
Editors: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); et al.
• Special issue: “Randomized Deep and Shallow Learning Algorithms”
Journal: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Editors: P.N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore);
M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); et al.
Other events aiming to promote the research, application and education relevant to Neural Networks:
• N/A
Planned and current activities in 2022/2023:
Conference organization:
• General Chair: M. Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Conference: 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022)
Special sessions, workshops/symposiums, and competitions:
• Special session: “Quantum Artificial Intelligence”
Conference: ESANN 2022
Chair: J. D. Martín Guerrero (Universitat de València, Spain)
• Special session: (title to be defined)
Conference: International Workshop on Machine Learning for Irregular Timeseries (ML4ITS)
Chair: Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Special session: “Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Learning Algorithm”
Conference: IJCNN 2023
Chair: P. N. Suganthan, M. Tanveer, Yudong Zhang
• Special session: “Reservoir Computing: theory, models, and applications”
Conference: IJCNN 2023
Chair: Andrea Ceni, Claudio Gallicchio, Gouhei Tanaka
Tutorials, keynote and plenary talks, and webinars:
• N/A
Journal special issues:
• N/A
Other events aiming to promote the research, application and education relevant to Neural Networks:
• IEEE CIS Summer School on Deep Learning and Computational Intelligence:
Theory and Applications (Oct. 2022): M Tanveer (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)