স্বাগতম, Welkom, Welcome!

The Sustainable AI (SustainAI) Lab is led by Dr. Ayon Borthakur (ড° অয়ন বৰঠাকুৰ), Assistant Professor at the Mehta Family School of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati. In our SustainAI Lab, we are dedicated to building real time AI systems which are optimal for both human & environment. As part of it, we conduct interdisciplinary research on deep learning, neuroscience, neuromorphic computing & engineering as well as embedded AI systems.

Media Highlights

• “Brain-inspired AI Model Learns Sensory Data Efficiently (Mirage)”
• “AI model mimics brain's olfactory system to process noisy sensory data efficiently (TechXplore)”
• “Brain-inspired AI model learns sensory data efficiently (Cornell)”

Lab News

• May 2026 — Our paper titled "A Spiking Heterogeneous Harmonic Resonate-and-Fire State Space Model for Time Series" published at ICML 2026.
• Jan 2026 — Our paper titled "CATFormer: When Continual Learning Meets Spiking Transformers With Dynamic Thresholds" published at the First Workshop on NeuroAI Multimodal Intelligence @ AAAI 2026.
• Dec 2025 — Our paper titled "A Second-Order SpikingSSM for Wearables" Spotlight presentation at TS4H Workshop, NeurIPS 2025.
• Oct 2025 — Gourish Majumdar and Kalyani Prashant Kolte join as PhD students.
• June 2025 — SPELA: Our paper titled "Learning using a single forward pass" published at TMLR. Congrats Aditya and Pushkal.

Openings

We are looking for multiple motivated collaborators to help design next generation AI. If you are open towards working on Deep Learning, Edge AI for Vision/NLP/Tactile/Smell/Radar, Neuromorphic Computing or Human & Environment Friendly AI, feel free to shoot an email to Ayon.

Research Areas