Led by PI Prof. Aiming Yan and Co-PIs Nobby Kobayashi, Jairo Selasco Jr., David Lederman, Wei Chen, Huizhong Xu, Sung-Mo Steve Kang, and Jason Eshraghian.
Category Archives: Awards
Sustainability Award of the GAMM Annual Meeting 2023 Awarded to Dr. Alexander Henkes, Prof. Henning Wessels and Prof. Jason Eshraghian
The research team from TU Braunschweig and University of California, Santa Cruz was honoured with the Sustainability Award at the annual conference of the Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) in Dresden. The scientists have developed an AI method that can help maintain bridges more efficiently and extend their service life.
Read more here.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Darlington Best Paper Award
The paper titled “How to Build a Memristive Integrate-and-Fire Neuron for Spiking Neuronal Signal Generation” has been awarded the 2023 IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems Darlington Best Paper Award. This paper was led by Prof. Sung-Mo Kang, Prof. Jason Eshraghian and Prof. Leon O. Chua in a collaboration spanning UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, TU Dresden, and Syungkyunkwan University.
The Darlington Best Paper Award annually recognizes one paper that bridges the gap between theory and practice published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and was presented to authors at the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Monterey, California.
See the announcement here.
The paper is available via IEEE.
Ph.D. Candidate Peng Zhou Successfully Defended Her Dissertation: “Memristive Spiking Neural Networks for Neuromorphic Computing”
Ph.D. candidate Peng Zhou awarded “Best New Neuromorph” at the 2022 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop
Read more about the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition workshop here.
Jason Eshraghian Awarded Fulbright Future Fellowship
Jason was awarded a Fulbright Future Fellowship to continue working with Professor Wei Lu at the University of Michigan in developing RRAM-based neuromorphic accelerators.
Best Live Demonstration Award at the IEEE Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems 2020
Our retina-controlled upper-limb prosthesis system led by Coen Arrow won the Best Live Demonstration Award at the IEEE International Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems.
Using sparse spiking electrical signals generated by retina photoreceptor cells in real-time could potentially assist with rehabilitation, and complement EMG signals to achieving high-precision feedback on a constrained power supply.
We somehow did this whole thing remotely across three continents, with Coen Arrow at the University of Western Australia; Hancong Wu & Kia Nazarpour at the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Michigan.
Code for the retina simulator can be found here.
Best Paper Award: 2019 IEEE Transaction on VLSI Circuits and Systems
Our paper titled “Neuromorphic Vision RRAM-CMOS Hybrid Architecture” was awarded the 2019 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Circuit and Systems, out of 4,500 published papers over the past 5 years. We were presented with the award in Sapporo, Japan, at ISCAS 2019.
We developed an event-driven image sensor that would convert light input into an analog spike train using a memristive mesh that performed spatial smoothing prior to improve robustness to noise.
Read more here.
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems 2019
Our work titled “Analog Weights in ReRAM DNN Accelerators” has been awarded as Best Paper at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems.
We developed a way to use frequency modulation in combination with look-up tables to improve the reliability of analog weight storage, which we showed could improve area density of crossbar arrays by a factor of up to 8x.
Read more here.
