Research Interests: Neuromorphic Analog VLSI

My research focus is on the exploration and implementation of biological models of sensorimotor systems. I have been designing analog VLSI circuits which implement models of the primate oculomotor system. In particular, I have been studying saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements, multimodal sensory integration (for triggering motor behavior), and in a collaborative effort with Tonia Morris at Georgia Tech, attentional processes for target selection and tracking. Most recently, I have been focusing on the exploration of computation architectures which can utilize spike-train respresentations for both communication and computation.

Projects:

• Analog VLSI-based Oculomotor Systems
• Analog VLSI-based Auditory Localization
• Learning in Sensorimotor Systems
• Mobile Robotics

Publications

I often think of myself as a chip-monk.

There are also many other labs in the world which also work on analog VLSI-based neural modelling and neuromorphic engineering. Here are a few I know of...

• Sensorimotor and Visual Attention Systems
  • Steve Deweerth's lab at Georgia Tech - See Tonia Morris' page
• Other:
  • Mead Lab at Caltech
  • CNEL at UFL - John Harris' Lab
  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings' Lab at Southern Illinois University
  • John Elias' lab at the Univ. of Delaware
  • Woody Yang's lab at Harvard
  • Johns Hopkins
  • Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Eric Vittoz's lab in Lausanne, Switzerland - EPFL
  • Indiana University's Analog VLSI and Robotics Laboratory