Dr. Ayon Borthakur

Dr. Ayon Borthakur

I am an Assistant Professor at the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati. I am broadly interested in Artificial Intelligence that is both human and environment friendly (Sustainable AI). Towards that goal, presently I have been conducting research at the intersection of deep learning and neuroscience, as well as neuromorphic systems.

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Career Timeline

  • 2023 – present: Assistant Professor, MFSDS&AI, IIT Guwahati, India
  • 2022 – 2023: Assistant Professor, Dept. of AI, IIT Hyderabad, India
  • 2021 – 2022: Senior Neuromorphic Engineer, Innatera Nanosystems, The Netherlands
  • 2021: Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence (Comp. Bio.), Cornell University, USA
    Thesis committee: Prof. Thomas Cleland (Chair), Prof. Thorsten Joachims, Prof. David Field, Prof. Alyosha Molnar, Prof. David Smith
  • 2013 – 2014: Research Assistant, Centre for Neuroscience, IISc Bengaluru, India (with Prof. Supratim Ray)
  • 2012: Intern, ETH Zurich & Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland (with Prof. Giacomo Indiveri & Dr. Sadique Sheik)
  • 2013: B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, IIT Dhanbad

Grants

  • IIT Guwahati SUG (2025)
  • IIT Hyderabad SUG (2023)
  • Intel Neuromorphic Community faculty grant (2018)
  • Cornell University conference travel grants (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019)
  • Cornell University Sage Fellowship (2014)

Workshops

  • Keynote speaker — 1st Int’l Workshop on Sustainable AI for Edge (SAI4E), AIMLSys Bengaluru (2023)
  • Telluride neuromorphic cognition engineering workshop, USA (2019)
  • Intel Neuromorphic Community Research Workshop, Reykjavik (2018)
  • U-wide GET SET Teaching Conference, Cornell (2015)
  • Berkeley summer course on mining & modeling neural data, USA (2015)
  • Bangalore cognition workshop, IISc Bengaluru (2013)