Emre Neftci

Neftci Emre
Dr. sc. ETH Zurich, Ing. Phys. Dipl. EPF

E-Mail: nemre (at) ucsd.edu

Current Address: Integrated Systems Neuroengineering Laboratory
UC San Diego, MC 0412, Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, Rm. 304, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093-0412

Affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD

RSA Public Encryption Key: pubkey.asc

Curriculum Vitae: cv.pdf

I am a postdoctoral researcher currently based in San Diego (UCSD), in the Integrated Systems Neuroengineering (ISN) group at the Institute for Neural Computation. I obtained my MS degree in Physics at EPFL and my PhD degree at the Institute of NeuroInformatics (INI), UZH and ETH Zurich.

I am passionate in creating computing systems that work more like the brain, by combining the fundamental and the applied. My long-term research goal is to emulate high-level, cognitive behaviors in hardware neuromorphic systems. The approach I currently pursue is to formulate neural computation as a machine learning problem, and design brain-inspired neural architectures to implement it efficiently in neuromorphic spiking neural systems . Applications range from brain-computer interfaces to goal-directed and adapting robotic systems.

Publication list

Neural generative models with stochastic synapses capture richer representationsCosyne Abstracts(accepted)
M. Al-Shedivat, E. Neftci, G. Cauwenberghs, 2015-May
[ URL :: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eafcpxn1optdhiz/Al-Shedivat_etal15.pdf?dl=0 ]
Inherently Stochastic Spiking Neurons for Probabilistic Neural ComputationIEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering(accepted)
M. Al-Shedivat*, R. Naous, E. Neftci, G. Cauwenberghs, K. Salama, 2015-Apr
A 65k-Neuron 73-Mevents/S 22-pJ/Event Asynchronous Micro-Pipelined Integrate-and-Fire Array TransceiverBiomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)
J. Park, S. Ha, T. Yu, E. Neftci, G. Cauwenberghs, 2014-Oct.
[ URL :: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwex6dnytnjhew7/Park_etal14.pdf?dl=0 ]
PyNCSa kernel for high-level configuration and definition of neuromorphic electronic systemsFrontiers in Neuroinformatics(equal contrib. FS, EN, SS)
F. Stefanini, E. Neftci, S. Sheik, G. Indiveri, 2014-Jul
[ URL :: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fninf.2014.00073/pdf ]
Event-Driven Contrastive Divergence for Spiking Neuromorphic SystemsFrontiers in Neuroscience
E. Neftci, S. Das, B. Pedroni, K. Kreutz-Delgado, G. Cauwenberghs, 2014-Jan.
[ URL :: http://www.frontiersin.org/neuromorphic_engineering/10.3389/fnins.2013.00272/abstract ]
Learning, Inference, and Replay of Hidden State Sequences in Recurrent Spiking Neural NetworksCosyne Abstracts
D. Corneil, E. Neftci, G. Indiveri, M. Pfeiffer, 2014-Feb.
[ URL :: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/197325/files/Cosyne14_Corneil.pdf ]
Neuromorphic EngineeringComputational Intelligence(in press)
E. Neftci, C. Posch, E. Chicca, 2014
Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Continuous-time Contrastive Divergence in Spiking Neuromorphic Systems
E. Neftci, S. Das, B. Pedroni, K. Kreutz-Delgado, G. Cauwenberghs, 2013-May
Synthesizing cognition in neuromorphic electronic systemsPNAS
E. Neftci, J. Binas, U. Rutishauser, E. Chicca, G. Indiveri, R. Douglas, 2013-Jun
[ URL :: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/07/17/1212083110 ]
Neuromorphic Adaptations of Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Belief NetworksInternational Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2013
B. Pedroni, S. Das, E. Neftci, K. Kreutz-Delgado, G. Cauwenberghs, 2013
[ URL :: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6707067 ]
Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation applied to Neuromorphic SystemsNeural Computation
E. Neftci, B. Toth, G. Indiveri, H. Abarbanel, 2012-July
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Neftci_etal12.pdf ]
Noise robustness and spatially patterned synchronization of cortical oscillatorsNew Journal of Physics(equal contrib. AL, EN, DM)
A. Landsman, E. Neftci, D. Muir, 2012-August
[ URL :: http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/14/12/123031 ]
Real-time inference in a VLSI spiking neural networkInternational Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS), 2012
D. Corneil, D. Sonnleithner, E. Neftci, E. Chicca, M. Cook, G. Indiveri, R. Douglas, 2012
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Corneil_etal12.pdf ]
Function approximation with uncertainty propagation in a VLSI spiking neural networkInternational Joint Conference on Neural Networks, (IJCNN) 2012
D. Corneil, D. Sonnleithner, E. Neftci, E. Chicca, M. Cook, G. Indiveri, R. Douglas, 2012
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Corneil_etal12b.pdf ]
Systematic Construction of Finite State Automata Using VLSI Spiking NeuronsBiomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
E. Neftci, J. Binas, E. Chicca, G. Indiveri, R. Douglas, 2012
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Neftci_etal12b.pdf ]
A systematic method for configuring VLSI networks of spiking neuronsNeural Computation
E. Neftci, E. Chicca, G. Indiveri, R. Douglas, 2011-Oct.
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Neftci_etal11.pdf ]
Systematic configuration and automatic tuning of neuromorphic systemsInternational Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS), 2011
S. Sheik, F. Stefanini, E. Neftci, E. Chicca, G. Indiveri, 2011-May
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Sheik_etal11.pdf ]
A Device Mismatch Compensation Method for VLSI Spiking Neural NetworksBiomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2010
E. Neftci, G. Indiveri, 2010
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Neftci_Indiveri10.pdf ]
State-Dependent Sensory Processing in Networks of VLSI Spiking NeuronsInternational Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS), 2010
E. Neftci, E. Chicca, M. Cook, G. Indiveri, R. Douglas, 2010
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Neftci_etal10.pdf ]
Towards VLSI Spiking Neuron Assemblies as General-Purpose Processors
E. Neftci, . , 2010
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Neftci10.pdf ]
Contraction Properties of VLSI Cooperative Competitive Neural Networks of Spiking NeuronsAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
E. Neftci, E. Chicca, G. Indiveri, J.-J.. Slotine, R. Douglas, 2008
[ URL :: http://ncs.ethz.ch/pubs/pdf/Neftci_etal08.pdf ]
Study of a Quantum Plaquette Model on a Triangular Lattice
E. Neftci, . , 2006
[ URL :: http://isn.ucsd.edu/~emre/master.pdf ]

Emre Neftci

Neftci Emre Dr. sc. ETH Zurich, Ing. Phys. Dipl. EPF

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Neftci Emre
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