Students and Postdocs

Current students and postdocs

Postdoctoral Scholar

PhD Institution

 Project

Kamel-Eddine Harabi

Université Paris-Saclay

Design and test of analog, mixed-signal, and digital memristor-baed AI hardware. 

 PhD student

Master's Institution

 Project

Kellian Cottart


Master Data Science (Ecole Polytechnique) / Ecole Centrale d'Electronique

Kellian develops novel continual learning techniques for edge AI, inspired by the principles of metaplasticity in the brain.

Mohammed Akib Iftakher


Université Paris-Saclay

Akib is developing and testing new AI and optimization circuits exploiting several types of nanodevices.

Adrien Renaudineau


Université Paris-Saclay

Adrien is developing, theoretically and experimentally, memristor-based learning  techniques.

Djohann Bonnet


Grenoble INP Phelma / EPFL / Politecnico di Torino

Djohann is based at CEA, LETI, Grenoble and is developing nano-Bayesian hardware. Main supervisor: Elisa Vianello.

Alumni

Marie Drouhin

ESPCI / PSL*

Memristor-based Equilibrium Propagation hardware. Cosupervised with Julie Grollier.

Clément Turck

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan

Design of hybrid CMOS/memristor Bayesian inference systems. Cosupervised with Jean-Michel Portal.

Atreya Majumdar

University of Groningen, The Netherlands. 

Learning with resistive memory

Xing Chen

Beihang University, China

Neuromorphic computing with structures exploiting skyrmions.  Coadvised with Dafiné Ravelosona, Kang Wang and Weisheng Zhao.

 Dual degree Université Paris-Saclay/Beihang University.

Fadi Jebali

Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia)

Fadi is based at IM2NP, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS and developing hybrid CMOS/RRAM neural network hardware. Main supervisor: Jean-Michel Portal.

Eduardo Esmanhotto

Polytech Grenoble / Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil)

Eduardo is based at CEA, LETI, Grenoble and is developing ultra-efficient neural network hardware. Main supervisors: Elisa Vianello and Jean-Michel Portal.


Maryam Massouras

Institut Jean Lamour (Université de Lorraine, CNRS)


Hybrid spintronic/ionic devices. Cosupervised with Liza Herrera Diez.

Axel Laborieux

Ecole Polytechnique

Axel is now a postdoctoral scholar with Friedemann Zenke at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland.  

 Guillaume Hocquet

 ENS Cachan

 Guillaume is working primarily at CEA LIST with Dr. Olivier Bichler. I am his academic PhD advisor.

Online learning on embedded systems 

 Tifenn Hirtzlin

 Magistère Electrical Engineering, Université Paris-Sud

Tifenn is now a permanent researcher at CEA, LETI, Grenoble.

 Maxence Ernoult (also at   UMR CNRS/Thales)

Maxence received his predoctoral education at Ecole Polytechnique. His PhD, cosupervised by Julie Grollier at UMR CNRS/Thales, investigated theoretically local learning rules for neuromorphic systems. His equilibrium propagation work was a collaboration with the group of Yoshua Bengio at MILA, Montreal.

Maxence is now a research scientist at Rain AI.

 Bogdan Penkovsky

Bogan, after a PhD at FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté, was a postdoc with us, where he investigated the use of our neuromorphic designs for medical applications.

Bogdan is now an R&D Project Manager at Alysophil.

 Damir Vodenicarevic

 Damir received his predoctoral education at Magistère Physique, Univ. Paris-Sud and did his PhD with us. He worked on neuromorphic computation schemes involving nanooscilators.

Damir is now the CTO of the Massa Labs startup company.

 Christopher H. Bennett

Chris received a Master from Stanford University, USA and Erasmus Mundus Master of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Chalmers/Leuven), and did his PhD with Prof. Jacques-Olivier Klein and me. He worked on the use of memristive devices as artificial synapses.

Chris is now a  research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA.

 Joseph S. Friedman

Joe graduated the PhD from Northwestern University, USA and was a postdoc with us for 2 years. He worked on the stochastic computation of Bayesian inference, and on stochastic nanodevices.

Adrien F. Vincent

 

Adrien received the M. S. from ENS Cachan and his PhD with his. He developed the concept of stochastic synapse based on magnetic tunnel junction.

After a postdoc at the University of California Santa Barbara,  USA, Adrien is now Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux.

 Alice Mizrahi 

 

 Alice received the M. S. from Cambridge University UK, and did her PhD with us. She worked on bioinspired computing with spintronics. Her work was co-advised with Julie Grollier at the   UMR CNRS/Thales.

 After a postdoc at NIST, Gaithersburg, USA,  Alice is now a permanent researcher at Thales Research and Technology.

 

Nicolas Locatelli

 Nicolas did his PhD at the UMR CNRS/Thales lab and was a postdoc with us for three years. He worked on the design of systems exploiting spintronic and memristive nanodevices, and which behave reliably despite the nanodevices being unreliable.

Nicolas is now a tenured undergraduate physics teacher in Cachan, France.