{"588129":{"#nid":"588129","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Kaitlin Fair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Biologically Plausible Sparse Approximation Solver on Neuromorphic Hardware\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. David Anderson, ECE, Chair , Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Justin Romberg, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Christopher Rozell, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mark Davenport, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work delivers a neuromorphic system that solves for the sparse approximation on hardware geared toward real-world embedded systems signal processing applications.\u0026nbsp; We choose to explore the biologically-plausible Locally Competitive Algorithm (LCA), a neural network that solves the sparse approximation problem.\u0026nbsp; We implement this algorithm on the brain-inspired IBM Neurosynaptic System, also known as the TrueNorth chip, a specialized hardware platform that has shown success in deploying neural networks for signal processing applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Biologically Plausible Sparse Approximation Solver on Neuromorphic Hardware "}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2017-02-28 23:33:54","changed_gmt":"2017-03-01 14:54:35","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-03-10T09:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-03-10 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-03-10 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-03-10 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"434381","name":"ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}