About

Dr. Ayon Borthakur

Assistant Professor
Mehta Family School of DS & AI
IIT Guwahati

  • (2022–23) Assistant Professor,
    IIT Hyderabad, India
  • (2021–22) Senior Neuromorphic Engineer,
    Innatera Nanosystems, The Netherlands
  • (2021) Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence ( Computational Biology ),
    Cornell University, USA,
    Thesis Committee– Thomas Cleland (Chair), Thorsten Joachims, David Field, Alyosha Molnar, David Smith
  • (2013–14) Research Assistant, Center for Neuroscience,
    IISc Bengaluru ( with Supratim Ray)
  • (2013) B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, IIT Dhanbad

Grants

  • Intel Neuromorphic Community faculty grant for Ayon Borthakur's PhD research ( 2018 ).
  • Cornell University conference travel grant ( 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 )
  • Cornell University Sage fellowship ( 2014 )

Workshops

  • Keynote Speaker at the First International Workshop on Sustainable AI for Edge (SAI4E), AIMLSys Bengaluru (2023).
  • Telluride neuromorphic cognition engineering workshop. Telluride, CO, USA (2019).
  • Intel Neuromorphic Community Research Community Workshop. Reykjavik, Iceland (2018).
  • Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence’s University-wide (U-wide) GET SET Teaching Conference (2015).
  • Berkeley summer course in mining & modeling of neural data. UC Berkeley, CA, USA (2015).
  • Bangalore cognition workshop. IISc Bengaluru, India (2013).