About myself.

I’m a theoretical neuroscientist turned neuromorphic hardware developer, working at the institute for Neuromorphic Compute Nodes at the Jülich Research Centre. Previously, I worked as a PostDoc with in the Integrated Systems Neuroengineering lab at UC San Diego and as a Chief Scientist and Deputy Group Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Germany. I received my PhD on the topic of Neural mechanisms of information processing and transmission from the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University. You can find a human-readable summary of my thesis here.

My primary research interest, then and now, has been to understand and model how neurons communicate so efficiently, and how computation emerges from this collective process. This is a broad question, so I dabble in machine-learning, mathematics (primarily stochastic processes and probabilistic modeling), engineering and neuroscience, and I hope to bring the results of this work to fruition in real-world applications through neuromorphic hardware for robotics.

I studied Theoretical Neuroscience. I'm interested in how the brain processes information on the level of neurons and dendrites, how spiking neural networks can learn efficient codes, and how we can replicate this in simulation.

I work on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics. I believe that the future of AI lies in embodied applications that need to interact with the world. Hence, I'm especially interested in AI hardware accelerators for real-time applications, for example in autonomous robots.

I work on "Neuromorphic" Integrated Circuit Design. The brain is living proof of a scalable, robust, highly efficient and massively parallel computing architecture. I believe that we can steal some of its tricks to push beyond the limits of current mixed-signal circuit design.

I use Probabilistic Modeling. The world is full of mysteries, and we all have our biases. I like to use Bayesian probabilistic models and sampling to deal with these facts.

I like Nature. It is a cliché, but like approximately all scientists, I like to walk in the woods, hike in the mountains, or lie on the beach. That counts as a sport … right⁈

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