Last updated: 17 March 2023
CV
Research Interest
Bio-inspired architectures and algorithms for sensing and computation
Education
Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Supervisor: Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings
May 2009 - May 2012
Baltimore, MD, USA
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Supervisor: Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Aug 2007 - May 2009
Baltimore, MD, USA
B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Cape Town,
Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Tapson
Feb 2003 - Nov 2006
Cape Town, South Africa
Experience
Research Scientist
Reality Labs
Meta
Feb 2023 - Present
New York, USA
Research Scientist
Neuromorphic Computing Laboratory
Intel Labs
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
Santa Clara, USA
Research Scientist
Temasek Laboratories (TLAB@NUS)
Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE@NUS)
National University of Singapore
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
Singapore
Research Fellow
Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE@NUS)
National University of Singapore
Sept 2012 - Aug 2015
Singapore
Mar 2013 - June 2013
Paris, France
Visiting PhD Student
Institute for Neuroinformatics,
ETH and UZH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Giacomo Indiveri
May 2009 - July 2009
Zurich, Switzerland
Awards and Honors
Temasek Research Fellowship, Singapore Ministry of Defence
2015
Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Instrumentation Design Competition winner
2010 and 2011
Best live demonstration: IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference
2011
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Hart Prize for excellence in R&D winner
2009
Invited Talks
Second Workshop on Event-based Vision at the IEEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA
June 2019
Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA, USA
July 2018
NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
July 2018
NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
July 2017
First Workshop on Event-based Vision at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore
June 2017
Asia-Pacific Winter School on Bio-Inspired Systems and Prosthetic Devices, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia
Dec 2016
IEEE CIS Summer School on Neuromorphic Systems for Machine Learning, Singapore
Sept 2016
International Forum on Neuromorphic Computing, Chengdu, China
Sept 2016
Supercomputing Frontiers, Singapore
March 2016
Third workshop on Reverse Engineering Visual Intelligence for congitiVe Enhancement (REVIVE), Singapore
Nov 2015
Asia-Pacific Summer School on Bio-Inspired Systems and Prosthetic Devices, Hualien, Taiwan
Aug 2015
NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
July 2013
Johns Hopkins University, Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Baltimore, MD, USA
May 2013
Workshops and Conferences
Organizing and Chairing
Co-chair: IEEE Symposium on Neuromorphic Cognitive Computing at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Honolulu, Hawaii
Nov 2017
Co-chair: IEEE Symposium on Neuromorphic Systems and Cyborg Intelligence at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Athens, Greece
Dec 2016
Advisory Committee: IEEE CIS Summer School on Neuromorphic Systems for Machine Learning, Singapore
Sept 2016
Technical Committee: Neuromorphic Computing and Cyborg Intelligence Workshop at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Vancouver, Canada
July 2016
Topic Leader: NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
July 2016
Session co-chair: IEEE Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Singapore
June 2016
Workshop organizer: SINAPSE Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, Singapore
June 2015
Topic Leader: NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
July 2014
Session co-chair: Neuromorphic Engineering at Neurotechzone Grand Challenges in Neural Technology, Singapore
Dec 2013
Staff: NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
2010, 2011, and 2012
Participation
Invited Participant: IBM TrueNorth Training Bootcamp, Almaden, CA, USA
Aug 2015
Participant: NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
July 2015
Invited Participant: Global Young Scientists Summit, Singapore
Jan 2015
Participant: NSF Brains, Minds, and Machines Course, Woods Hole, MA, USA
June 2014
Participant: Capo Caccia Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, Sardinia, Italy
May 2013
Participant: NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA
July 2009
Service
Editing
Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, special issue on Neuromorphic Computing and Cognitive Systems
Nov 2016
Associate Editor: IEEE conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Singapore
June 2016
Associate Editor: Frontiers in Neuroscience, section on Neuromorphic Engineering
Since: June 2016
Reviewing
IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Frontiers in Neuroscience (Neuromorphic Engineering)
Proceedings of the IEEE
Wiley Journal of Microscopy