I just finished my neural engineering Ph.D. researching neuromorphic engineering in the Brains in Silicon Lab within the Department of Bioengineering, a part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. My dissertation project was the Silicon Hippocampus. I am continuing my work with my advisor, Kwabena Boahen, as a post-doc at Stanford University. My interests lie in understanding the brain in its role as a computational device by emulating brain regions with networks of silicon neurons in VLSI, using mixed analog and digital circuits to compute and to communicate spikes, respectively, just like the brain does. Make sure to try the real-time online chip demo (temporarily down), which streams data from one of my VLSI chips over the internet to an applet on your PC's browser (requires a high-speed internet connection).

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