Innovating Beyond Electrophysiology: Multimodal Neural Interfaces and Neuromorphic Co-Design
Neuroscience Seminar Series

Abstract:
The next leap in implantable neural interfaces requires technological advances in materials, devices, and computing paradigms. Multimodal approaches integrating optical and electrical sensing modalities can overcome spatiotemporal resolution limits of neural sensing as well as open up new avenues for non-invasive neural recording. Integration of sensing, computation and memory on a single array can enable real-time processing of neural signals for compact, low-power and high-throughput neuromorphic brain machine interfaces. Here, I will present this vision, its challenges, and discuss recent advances in the areas of transparent neural interfaces for multimodal recordings, neuromorphic approaches for on-chip neural processing and computational co-design at the system level for minimally invasive neural interfaces.

About the Speaker:
Duygu Kuzum is currently a Professor and Gilbert Hegemier Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of California, San Diego. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2010. Her research focuses on energy efficient compute in memory based on nonvolatile memory technologies for embedded edge AI applications. She also applies inspirations from circuit-level computation in the brain to develop new nanoelectronics devices and neuromorphic computing paradigms. She was a recipient of a number of awards, including Texas Instruments Fellowship and Intel Foundation Fellowship, Innovators under 35 (TR35) by MIT Technology Review (2014), ONR Young Investigator Award (2016), IEEE Nanotechnology Council Young Investigator Award (2017), NSF Career Award (2018), NIH New Innovator Award (2020), Joan and Irwin Jacobs-Kavli Foundation Chancellor's Endowed Faculty Fellowship for Engineering the Brain and the Mind (2023), and Presidential Career (PECASE) Award (2025).

Contact

  Seyedehaida Ebrahimi
  sue66@psu.edu