Former News

  • New work with the groups of Julie Grollier and Yoshua Bengio: Scaling Equilibrium Propagation to Deep Neural Networks

  • New article in Nature Electronics with LETI. We performed MCMC-based learning with 16,384 memristors, by *EXPLOITING* their variability!

  • Read our review on Neuromorphic Spintronics, published in Nature Electronics

  • Our book Memristive Devices for Brain-Inspired Computing, with fantastic contributions from authors all over the world, is available for preorder

  • I will be teaching again my graduate level class about "Nanoarchitectures" (circuit and system architectures that use nanodevices) from Dec to Feb for the Nanosciences and Integrated Circuits Master programs. The class is also open to PhD students. Contact me if you would like to attend.

  • Our joint work with Aix-Marseille Univ and LETI on in-memory implementation of Binarized Neural Networks published in Frontiers in Neuroscience Link

  • Université Paris-Sud has become Université Paris-Saclay Jan 1st, a new University with a much larger engineering program

  • New students Kamel, Atreya and Xing have started in the group

  • Our joint work with Aix-Marseille Univ and LETI on in-memory implementation of Binarized Neural Networks published at the IEDM conference! Link.

  • Our joint work with the groups of Julie Grollier (CNRS/Thales) and Shinji Yuasa (AIST), which demonstrates neuromorphic computation with coupled spin oscillators, published in Nature! Link.

  • Bogdan started as a postdoc in the group, and Axel as a PhD student!

  • Damir's new paper: adapting machine learning approaches for nanooscilator networks. Link. Featured on scilight

  • New paper with CNRS/Thales and NIST, USA. Making nanoelectronics-based neural network more resilient with continuous learning. Link.

  • New paper with LETI. In some RRAM-based neural networks, device variability is actually useful! Link.

  • I will be teaching again my graduate level class about "Nanoarchitecures" (circuit and system architectures that use nanodevices) from Dec to Feb for the Nanosciences and Integrated Circuits Master programs. The class is also open to PhD students. Contact me if you would like to attend.

  • Adrien's paper received the 2018 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award !

  • Alice and Tifenn's paper on population coding with superparamagnetic tunnel junctions accepted by Nature Communications! Link. Press release

  • I have openings for Master's internships, PhD thesis and postdocs!

  • Damir and Chris defended their PhDs. Congratulations!

  • Our last paper is featured on Nanotechweb!

  • I will be teaching again my graduate level class about "Nanoarchitecures" (circuit and system architectures that use nanodevices) from Dec to Feb for the Nanosciences and Integrated Circuits Master programs. The class is also open to PhD student. Contact me if you would like to attend.

  • Damir's paper on low energry random bit generation with spintronic devices accepted by Physical Review Applied! Preprint here

  • Tifenn Hirtzlin and Maxence Ernoult started their PhD in the group. Welcome!

  • We contributed to a beautiful paper of Julie Grollier's group on demonstrating reservoir computing with spin torque nanooscillators, pubished by Nature! Paper. News & Views by Frank Hoppensteadt

  • Omid Kavehei from RMIT Australia, and Manan Suri from IIT Delhi are visiting the group in June

  • The NANOINFER ERC Starting Grant 2016 to develop natively intelligent memories started March 1st.

  • We created the interdisciplinary INTEGNANO research group at C2N!

  • Damir's paper about pattern recognition with nanooscillators accepted by Scientific Reports, Joe's paper about stochastic Bayesian inference accepted by the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning!

  • Joseph Friedman left the group and is now Assistant Professor at UT Dallas. All the best for this new adventure!

  • Do not miss the review Nanodevices for Bioinspired Computing, in the Spintronics special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE, that we wrote with Julie Grollier and Mark D. Stiles

  • I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2016 to develop natively intelligent memories! I am looking forward to starting this project

  • Alice's paper on synchronization of stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions accepted by Scientific Reports

  • Sandip Tiwari from Cornell University is visiting the lab June-July!

  • I defended my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches thesis April 5, 2pm, at IEF, room 44.

  • Joe's paper on Bayesian Inference with Muller C-Elements accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I !

  • I am organizing a workshop on the connection between bioinspiration and energy efficiency April 7 at PROTO204,Orsay. More information here

  • I defended my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches April 5

  • Eric will receive a "Prix du stage de recherche" award from Ecole Polytechnique for his research internship!

  • I will teach a graduate level class about "Nanoarchitecures" (circuit and system architectures that use nanodevices) from early Dec. to mid Feb for the Nanosciences Master program. The class is also open to PhD student as an EOBE scientific course. Contact me if you would like to attend.

  • I will give invited talks at the HALO workshop of ICCAD, Austin, USA, at the "Dynamical systems and brain-inspired information processing" workshop, Besancon, France and at the first Workshop of the BioComp research network, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.

  • Nicolas and Selina will present papers at the International Conference on Memristive Systems, Cyprus

  • I gave invited talks at the International Workshop on Computational Electronics, West Lafayette, USA and at the French-US Workshop on Nanoelectronics, New York, USA

  • Alice's paper on magnetic stochastic oscillators was published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

  • Our overview paper on bioinspired programming of memory devices for implementing an inference engine was just published in the Proceedings of the IEEE

  • Prof. Sandip Tiwari of Cornell University will visit us all June and July! Contact me if you would like to meet with him. Program of his lectures.

  • GDR Biocomp, a French network to facilitate interdisciplinary exchanges around the realization of bio-inspired hardware systems, is launched

  • I will talk on the future of memory in "L'Atelier numerique" of BFM Business, May 2.

  • Article in Nanotechweb about Adrien's paper: Magnetic RAM makes synaptic-like junction

  • Adrien's article on using STT-MTJs as synapses accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems is online!

  • Alice will be one of the five IEEE Intermag 2015 Best Student Paper finalists

  • Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra from UC San Diego is visiting us March 16-27! Program of the visit. Contact me if you would like to meet with him.

  • PhD student Selina La Barbera from IEMN is visiting us this month

  • DATE 2015: do not miss Nicolas' talk on the use of spintronics for bioinspired computing on Wed., and Adrien's poster at the NeuComp workshop on Friday.

  • Adrien's article on the modeling of stochastic effects in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions is accepted by IEEE Trans. Electron Dev.

  • New website for the FP7 FETOPEN Bottom-up Approaches to Machines dedicated to Bayesian Inference (BAMBI) project

  • Adrien won the "DVS off" contest at the CapoCaccia Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop and the second best paper award at the Journées Nationales du Réseau Doctoral en Microélectronique. Congratulations!