Publicado em: 29/07/2024

IEEE CASS RS Talks 2024

CASS Talks: Rethinking Computing with Neuro-inspired Learning: A system-technology co-design approach

No dia 09 de agosto às 13:30h (Horário de Brasília) ocorrerá a palestra “Rethinking Computing with Neuro-inspired Learning: A system-technology co-design approach” com Prof. Kaushik Roy da Purdue University, USA

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Abstract:
Advances in machine learning, notably deep learning, have led computers to match or surpass human performance in several cognitive tasks including vision, speech and natural language processing. However, implementation of neural algorithms in conventional “von-Neumann” architectures are several orders of magnitude more area and power expensive than the biological brain. Hence, we need fundamentally new approaches to sustain the exponential growth in performance at high energy-efficiency. Exploring the new paradigm of computing necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach: exploration of new learning algorithms inspired from neuroscientific principles, developing network architectures best suited for such algorithms, new hardware techniques to achieve orders of improvement in energy consumption, and nanoscale devices that can closely mimic the neuronal and synaptic operations. We distill the key computational characteristics of future cognitive workloads, co-designing the unique capabilities of various CMOS and beyond-CMOS devices and integration technologies to the needs of the workloads, and use them to drive the design of the next generation of programmable hardware architectures for cognitive computing.

Short CV:
Kaushik Roy is the Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received his BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and joined the Semiconductor Process and Design Center of Texas Instruments, Dallas, where he worked for three years. Kaushik has supervised  more than100 PhD dissertations and is the co-author of two books on Low Power CMOS VLSI Design (John Wiley & McGraw Hill). Kaushik received the National Science Foundation Career Development Award in 1995, IBM faculty partnership award, ATT/Lucent Foundation award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, SRC Inventors Award, Purdue College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Outstanding Mentor Award in 2021, Humboldt Research Award in 2010, 2010 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Achievement Award (Charles Desoer Award), IEEE TCVLSI Distinguished Research Award in 2021,  Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair, DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow (2014-2019), SRC Aristotle Award in 2015, Purdue Arden L. Bement Jr. Award in 2020, SRC Innovation Award in 2022, honorary doctorate from Aarhus University in 2023