Topic: Spiking Intelligence: Towards Reconciling Physics and Algorithmics?
Abstract: Spikes and rhythms organize control and communication in the animal world, in contrast to the bits and clocks of digital technology. As continuous-time signals that can be counted, spikes have a mixed nature. This talk will review ongoing efforts to develop a control theory of spiking systems. This talk will review ongoing efforts to develop a control theory of spiking systems via the classical concept of mixed feedback. We discuss the relevance of a theory of mixed feedback systems to address the “AI gap” in the emerging age of event-based technology.
Rodolphe Sepulchre is Professor of Engineering at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and at the University of Cambridge (UK). He is a fellow of IFAC (2020), IEEE (2009), and SIAM (2015). He received the IEEE CSS Antonio RubertiYoung Researcher Prize in 2008 and the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award in2020. He was elected at the Royal Academy of Belgium in 2013. He has been Editor-in- Chief of Systems and Control Lettters (2009-2019) andthe IEEE Control Systems Magazine (2020-
2024). He is a recipient of two ERC advanced grants (Switchlets (2015-2021) and SpikyControl (2023- 2028)).
