Center for Computational Brain Research
The Center for Computational Brain Research is an interdisciplinary research centre located at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. CCBR was set up in 2015 with funding from Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan. The stated objective of the center is "to explore the interface between Neuroscience and Engineering disciplines".The two broad areas of research at the centre are to exploit engineering tools for analysing the structure and activity of neural circuits
and advancing machine intelligence with brain-inspired hardware and software architecture. The center has 3 chairs with an endowment of 100 million each. These chairs are currently held by distinguished Indian American professors, viz., Partha Mitra, Mriganka Sur and Anand Raghunathan.Academic activities
Some of the teaching modules at CCBR are Neuroscience, Machine learning, Vision, Audition, Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement learning. The center has also been organizing an annual winter course/workshop on "Machine Intelligence and Brain Research" during the first week of January.
