2024 N3BG Summer School
Advances and Applications in Neuroinformatics, Neural Networks and Neurocomputing
Key Information
Dates: May 22-23, 2024
Venue: USOB Sozopol, Technical University Sofia
Accommodation: USOB Sozopol or nearby hotels
TU-Sofia, 22-23.05.2024; hybrid, onsite and online on Zoom)
The Second Summer School NNN 2024 is a part of TU - Sofia "Science Days 2024". Participation in the Summer School is free for all participants, but they need to register in advance by sending an email to the Organising Chair A/Prof. Galia Pavlova (raicheva@tu-sofia.bg) and to Doct. Iman AbouHassan (iabouhassan@tu-sofia.bg) for inclusion in the N3BG email list for further announcements. All invited speakers from Bulgaria and from overseas are donating their time, efforts and expertise to make this event useful and inspirational for students, academics and practitioners in Bulgaria.
We invite participants to also give a short (e.g. 5 min) presentations along with our invited speakers to inform the BG community about their work. All presentations will be either onsite or on Zoom. Selected presentations will be invited to be included as chapters in an edited volume of the Springer Series on Bio-Neuro Systems (https://www.springer.com/series/15821). Some will be invited to the Springer Journal of Evolving Systems (https://link.springer.com/journal/12530).
Presentations will be recorded and uploaded, upon agreement by the presenters, into YouTube. For further information and updates, please contact A/Prof. G. Pavlova and Doct. I. AbouHassan.
Program (with downloads)
DAY 1: Wednesday May 22, 2024
Day 1 Morning Session (09:30–12:30): Advances in NI, NN and NC
Chair/Moderators: Prof. N. Kasabov and Prof. P. Koprinkova
09:30–09:45 Welcome address and introduction of invited speakers
09:45–10:00 Prof. Danilo Mandich (Imperial College, London), “Introducing INNS as a leading world society for the topics of N3BG”
10:00–10:30 Prof. Danilo Mandich, “Explainability in NN”
10:30–11:00 Prof. Alan Wang (University of Auckland, NZ), “Advances in neuroimaging”
11:00–11:30 Prof. Yusuf Cakmak (University of Otago, NZ), “Advances in Neurotechnology”
11:30–12:00 Prof. Al. Dimitrov (USA), “Advances in neurocomputer chips”
12:00–12:20 A/Prof. G. Momcheva (Inst. Mathematics, BAS), “Design of neural network systems”
12:20–12:30 Short presentations from the audience and discussions
Lunch break (12:30–14:00)
The First Joint N3BG/C4BG Symposium – AI/Neural Network Applications in Finance and Economics
Day 1 Afternoon Session (14:00–17:00): AI/NN Applications in Finance and Economics
Chair/Moderators: Prof. L. Litov (USA), Prof. N. Kasabov, Prof. R. Trifonov, Doct. I. AbouHassan (TU-Sofia)
14:00–14:10 Prof. L. Litov (U. Oklahoma, USA), “Introducing the C4BG group (Citizens for Bulgaria)”
14:10–14:40 Prof. K. McElheran (Canada), Prof. M.J. Yeung, Prof. Brynjolfsson (USA), “Friction at the AI Frontier: What does AI adoption really look like and how has it impacted productivity?”
14:40–15:40 Doct. I. AbouHassan, Profs. N. Kasabov & R. Trifonov (TU-Sofia), “Advanced NN techniques for finance & economics predictive modelling”
15:40–16:10 Prof. V. Chhaochharia, Prof. A. Kumar, Prof. V. Rantala (Univ. of Miami), Prof. A. Zhang (FIU), “AI Analyst Sentiment and Aggregate Market Behavior”
16:10–16:40 Mr. D. Djolev, Profs. M. Lazarova & O. Nakov (TU-Sofia), “Federated Learning on Blockchain for financial prediction and classification”
16:40–17:00 Short presentations from the audience and discussions
DAY 2: Thursday May 23, 2024
Day 2 Morning Session (09:30–12:30): Advanced Applications of AI and NN
Chair/Moderators: Prof. R. Trifonov (TU-Sofia) and Prof. I. Jordanov (UK)
09:30–10:00 Dr. Z. Doborjeh (AUT, NZ) & Prof. A. Sumich (Nottingham Trent University, UK), “AI in Psychology”
10:00–10:30 Prof. C. Calude (University of Auckland, NZ), “What can quantum computers do and what they cannot do?”
10:30–11:00 Prof. I. Jordanov (University of Portsmouth, UK), “Applications of deep NN in maternity predictive modelling”
11:00–11:30 Prof. R. Trifonov (TU-Sofia), “AI applications in cybersecurity”
11:30–12:00 Prof. N. Hinov (TU-Sofia), “AI in Electronics”
12:00–12:20 Prof. N. Kasabov, “Evolving associative memories in bio-neuro systems and AI: This is all we need!”
12:20–12:30 Short presentations from the audience and discussions
Concluding remarks and announcement of next N3BG Summer School 2025
Organisers
Honorary Chairs
Prof. N Kasabov, LFIEEE, FRSNZ, FINNS (Founding chair N3BG, Prof. AUT NZ and IICT BAS, Advisor TU-Sofia),
Prof. I. Kralov (Rector of TU-Sofia),
Corr. Member BAS Prof. S. Margеnov (Director, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
Summer School Chair
Prof. R. Trifonov (TU-Sofia)
Summer School Co-Chairs
Prof. D. Gotseva (Dean, TU-Sofia),
Prof. P. Koprinkova-Hristova (IICT, BAS),
Prof. I. Jordanov, (U. Portsmouth UK),
Corr. Member BAS Prof. N. Gabrovsky (Institute Pirogov),
Dr. M. Doborjeh (KEDRI AUT NZ).
Organising Committee
Assoc. Prof. G. Pavlova (Chair),
Assoc. Prof G. Tsochev,
Assoc. Prof. N. Hinov,
Doct. Iman AbouHassan. (TU-Sofia)