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Neuromorphic AI Research

Lorenzo Pes

Doctoral Candidate in Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, working on hardware-software co-design for spiking and artificial neural networks in physical devices, with a focus on efficient on-device continual learning.

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Current Position

Doctoral Candidate, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Systems at TU/e, affiliated with the Neuromorphic Edge Computing Systems Lab.

Education

MSc in Electrical Engineering with a microelectronics specialization from Delft University of Technology (awarded September 29, 2023), following a BEng in Electrical Engineering with a VLSI/electronics specialization from Concordia University (awarded December 8, 2020).

Research Profile

Research centers on neuromorphic technologies, forward-only learning, spiking neural networks, and physical AI systems that can learn efficiently at the edge.

Technical Background

Experience spans board design in KiCad, digital design in Verilog, embedded programming in C/C++, analog design in Cadence, and deployment of artificial and spiking neural networks in PyTorch and Python.

Projects

Continual Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

Investigating biologically inspired learning rules and active dendrites to reduce catastrophic forgetting in time-to-first-spike neural networks.

Forward-Only Learning

Developing memory-efficient and scalable alternatives to backpropagation through time for training spiking neural networks on dynamic signals.

Hardware-in-the-Loop Photonic Training

Exploring optical correlators and hardware-aware training pipelines that combine neuromorphic principles with physical photonic systems.

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Affiliation

Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Professional Snapshot

Background includes internships in embedded hardware design and a research internship at IBM Zurich, alongside work spanning neuromorphic AI, embedded systems, and microelectronics.