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Guest presentation Alejandro Linares Barranco

Spike-based Signal Processing to Develop Neuromorphic Auditory Sensors and Robotic Motor Controllers

Alejandro Linares Barranco

Spike-based Signal Processing to Develop Neuromorphic Auditory Sensors and Robotic Motor Controllers

Bio-inspired systems try to understand real biological systems. Living beings' nervous systems in general and neurons in particular, represent the natural computing that is the inspiration of neuromorphic engineers. Neuromorphic systems are thought to provide a high level of parallelism, interconnectivity, and scalability, performing complex processing in real-time, with a balanced relation between quality, speed, and resource consumption. Frequency-based neuron models can be used to develop Neuro-inspired auditory sensors or motor-neuron models. This talk is focused on presenting the basis of spike-based signal processing (SSP), and its application in two different worlds: a Neuromorphic Auditory Sensor (NAS) and Neuro-inspired motor controllers for robotics. We have developed spiking PID controllers (SPIDs), whose spikes drive final actuators, maintaining the neuro-inspiration. Furthermore, with SSP one can model a bank of band-pass frequency filters to model a cochlea. Two different datasets are available for learning-based applications for these applications: LIPSFUS, an audio-visual lips-reading dataset, and LeminscateEDScorbot, a collection of SPID activity for more than 700 lemniscate trajectories for learning applications.

Bio: Alejandro received a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering, an M.S. degree in Industrial Computer Engineering, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering on Neuromorphic Hardware Interfaces from the University of Seville, Spain, in 1998, 2002, and 2003, respectively. His research interests include VLSI digital design for FPGA, embedded systems, neuromorphic computing for sensors, robotics, and deep-learning applications. He has been an Assistant / Associate / Full professor at the University of Seville since 2003. He co-founded the spin-off COBER, which focused on biomedical robotics and neuromorphic hardware development. He has served as head of the Department of Architecture and Tech. of Computers until 2021. He has been chair of the Neuromorphic Systems group of SCORE since 2020. He has served as chair of the Neural Systems and Applications track of the CAS Society (IEEE). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Zurich / ETHZ, Bielefeld University, and Ulster University.

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Opening Makersspace

Festive opening ceremony Johanna Manders Makersspace


On March 26th at 12:00 the Johanna Manders Makerspace will be oficially opend.. You can find further details regarding the naming of the makerspace in an article featured in TU Delta, commemorating the International Women’s Day.

The ceremony will be graced by the presence of Professor Annoesjka Cabo, the Director of Education at EEMCS, along with members of the Manders Brada Stichting executive board, J.W.R. (Jasper) Stimm and R. (Roel) Klooster. Following the opening, a workshop conducted by the vrouwencommissie FEE of ETV will take place in the makerspace. During the workshop, students will craft jewelry using electronic components, such as capacitor earrings, PCB necklaces, and more. The workshop will conclude at 14:00. You are welcome to join the festivities any time between 12:00 and 14:00.

 https://delta.tudelft.nl/article/johanna-manders

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Microelectronics colloquium

Running large EU projects: Intelligent Reliability (iREL40)

Willem van Driel

Running large EU projects: Intelligent Reliability (iREL40)

Intelligent Reliability 4.0 (iRel40) is a 102MEuro European funded project with the ultimate goal of improving reliability of electronic components and systems by reducing failure rates along the entire value chain. The project finalized in December 2023 and achieved significant results, strengthening production along the value chain and supporting the sustainable success of investment in microelectronics in Europe through the improvements of the reliability of electronic systems. More than 100 publications based on journal and conference articles were published or are under preparation including a book on the iRel40 outcome. In this presentation, Prof van Driel will highlight the main findings of the project. Also, he will share how to set-up and run such large EU projects.

Reference: www.irel40.eu

Willem van Driel has a >30-year track record in the reliability domain. Application areas range from healthcare, gas and oil explorations, semiconductors and my current position in Signify where I am responsible for Solid State Lighting reliability. Besides that, he holds a professor position at the University of Delft, The Netherlands. His scientific interests are solid state lighting, microelectronics and microsystems technologies, virtual prototyping, virtual reliability qualification and designing for reliability of microelectronics and microsystems. He acts as the chair for the organizing committee of the IEEE conference EuroSimE and has authored and co-authored more than 350 scientific publications, including journal and conference papers, book or book chapters and invited keynote lectures. He holds 20 patents. He is a certified DFSS Black Belt.

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32nd Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design

32nd Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design


The aim of the Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) is to bring together a large group of people working at the frontiers of analog circuit design, to study and discuss possibilities and future developments.

The workshop lasts three days and runs yearly since 1992, covering every year three specific topics in the field on analog design (one topic per day).

This year the 32nd edition of the AACD workshop will take place in Pavia, Italy, from April 9th to April 11th, 2024 and will cover the following topics:

AACD is recognized as Ph. D. School. For Ph. D. Students that need a final exam for gaining ECTS, a test will be organized online a few weeks after the Workshop.

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IEEE Sensor Interfaces Meeting 2024

IEEE Sensor Interfaces Meeting 2024


SIM will take place for the third time in 2024, on 25 and 26 April, and for the first time in San Diego, hosted by UCSD. SIM is a workshop-like event with only keynote talks from industry and academia

This year the Sensor Interfaces Meeting is expanding to include poster sessions to give participants the chance to share, discuss and debate the latest trends and advances, as well as industry-leading products.

We encourage the submission of state-of-the-art mature, already industrialized sensor interface solutions, as well as emerging interface concepts and solutions with highly innovative and revolutionary potential.

SIM is intended to be equally attractive for students, professors, and colleagues from industry, with particularly low registration fees for students.

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PhD Thesis Defence

Multi-agent exploration under sparsity constraints

Christoph Manss

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Conferences

44th Benelux Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing (SITB'24, Delft)


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PhD Thesis Defence

Model-based feature engineering of atrial fibrillation

Hanie Moghaddasi

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Conferences

7th Graph Signal Processing Workshop (GSP 2024)


Following a series of successful workshops since 2016, we are pleased to announce that the 7th Edition of the Graph Signal Processing Workshop will be held June 24-26, 2024 in Delft, The Netherlands (campus TU Delft). The workshop will provide a warm welcome to experts and practitioners from academia and industry in the field of graph signal processing (GSP). The goal of GSP is to generalize classical signal processing and statistical learning tools to signals on graphs (functions defined on a graph).

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