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Nov 2023: Imtiaz successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Very proud of his work and very thankful to our colleagues and collaborators who served in his committee. Congratulations, Imtiaz!
August 2023: Dr. Gina Adam (technical lead) with support from the GW Vice Provost from Research, Dr. Pamela Norris (team lead) received $1,000,000 for the two-year DoD DEPSCoR capacity building grant. The project aims to develop electronic neuromorphic devices and sensors based on novel materials driven by short-range order and strengthen the District of Columbia (DC)’s position as an innovation leader in energy efficient neuromorphic systems. It will also allow the acquisition of a state-of-the-art reactive sputtering chamber for deposition of complex materials in the GW Nanofabrication facility.
August 2023: Our group has two new PhD students. Welcome, Shweta and Teo!
August 2023: Joey presented a poster on the network connectivity in gradient trained spiking neural networks for improved biological realism at the ACM International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS).
July 2023: We have received a patent for our work on distributed neuromorphic computing for high definition bioelectric diagnostics and therapy [link].
July 2023: Our work on artificial synapses was featured in the GW Research Magazine [link].
June 2023: Dr. Adam supported by Imtiaz and Sean organized a GW Nano event in partnership with the Northern Virginia Community College to expose the students to nanotechnology and nanoscale device manufacturing with activities in our virtual reality cleanroom simulator and in our GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center.
June 2023: Sean Letavish and Dr. Adam attended the ASEE 2023 conference to present the work on developing and testing our virtual reality cleanroom simulator inspired by our GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center [link]
June 2023: Our collaborative work with Dr. Tian Lan's group and the U.S. Military Academy on network intrusion detection supported by memristors was presented at IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence [link]
June 2023: Victoria and Dr. Adam attended the Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN) Conference in San Francisco. Victoria gave a talk on the development of a dual-compartment microelectrode array for investigation of neuronal network media exchange, showcasing the results from her undergraduate research project.
May 2023: It's graduation time! Sean graduated with a MSc degree and is off to an internship at NASA. Victoria graduated with a BSc degree and will start her PhD at Duke University in Fall. Congratulations!
April 2023: Dr. Adam organized a session "Design for Heterogeneous Integration" at the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) in San Francisco.
March 2023: Dr. Adam is honored to have been selected for the university-wide 2023 Morton A. Bender Teaching Award. The Bender Teaching Awards recognize excellent teaching of undergraduate, graduate and professional courses at the George Washington University.
March 2023: Dr. Adam served as the chair of the "Disruptive Technologies - IoT, AI/ML, Neuromorphic & Quantum Computing" sub-committee at the IEEE EDTM conference organized in Seoul, South Korea this year. She also gave a talk "Interpolative Device Models for Hafnia-based FeFETs", work done in collaboration with ARL.
March 2023: Dr. Adam is honored to have been awarded a 3-year AFOSR YIP grant to investigate realistic dynamic neural networks inspired by the hippocampal architecture and its specific neurogenesis capabilities. More details are available at link.
Feb 2023: Dr. Adam is honored to have been awarded a 5-year NSF CAREER grant to work on a new class of entropy-stabilized oxide memristors with engineered switching dynamics and their integration in software-equivalent hardware neural networks. Moreover, this project also targets the development and incorporation of experiential learning activities to support the training of diverse students in the field.
Jan 2023: We have two PhD positions open, one on novel devices and one in neuro-inspired computing. Read more here!
Jan 2023: Osama's paper proposing and investigating the concept of modeling bias in ReRAM-based neural networks was accepted in IEEE JETCAS (link). Congratulations!
Jan 2023: Yin's accepted paper in ACM JETC is now available online. Read more about the proposed low-rank gradient descent for the memory-efficient training of memristor-based networks at link. Congratulations!
Dec 2022: Lei and Imtiaz successfully defended their respective PhD qualifying proposals and advanced to candidacy. Congratulations!
Dec 2022: We were at the 2022 Memrisys conference in Boston! Lei presented a poster on "Distributed memristor-based networks for smart cardiac implants" and Osama presented a poster on "Investigating Bias in the Modeling of ReRAM Devices".
Nov 2022: Our work in collaboration with NIST and Google has been featured in the GW Today (link).
Nov 2022: Dr. Adam is honored to have the opportunity to attend the Scientific Symposium and Luncheon celebration with 2022 U.S. Nobel Laureates at the Embassy of Sweden and U.S. National Academies.
Oct 2022: Dr. Adam is honored to have received the 2022 SEAS Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award.
Oct 2022: Dr. Adam attended virtually the U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium organized in Nairobi, Kenya by the U.S. National Academies and the African Academy of Sciences. She was selected among more than 800 applicants (<10% acceptance rate).
Oct 2022: Dr. Adam received a MSE grant from the Information Technology Laboratory at NIST Boulder.
Sept 2022: Dr. Adam with collaborator Dr. Tianshu Li (CEE) received an GWU seed grant as part of the Cross Disciplinary Research Fund for 2022-2023.
Sept 2022: Dr. Adam received an GWU seed grant as part of the University Facilitating Fund for 2022-2023.
Sept 2022: Prof. Adam has been elevated to the grade of IEEE senior member.
Sept 2022: Partnership with NIST - Google for the nanotechnology accelerator has been announced (link). Our group has proudly represented GW in this effort for the past year, with Lei and Joseph contributing circuit designs and Imtiaz fabricating on the chips in our GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center. The NIST workshop on Sept 20th-201th provided more information (link, GW slides).
Sept 2022: Joey presented a poster at the Nature / DZNE conference in Bonn, Germany on functional training in biologically realistic spiking neural networks (link).
Fall 2022: Our group has a new PhD student. Welcome, Joseph!
August 2022: Dr. Adam and collaborator Dr. Ascoli received a CRCNS grant from Department of Energy for 2022 - 2025.
August 2022: Zhuolin and Lei's paper was featured on the back inside cover in Advanced Intelligent Systems (link). Congratulations!
July 2022: Osama presented at the ICONS conference in Knoxville, Tennessee on our recent work "Towards a Hardware-Aware Decomposition Method for ReRAM Neural Network Training".
July 2022: Imtiaz received a generous fellowship from ORAU / ARL for his PhD research. Congratulations!
July 2022: Dr. Adam received a grant from Western Digital for 2022-2023.
June 2022: We were at the 65th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN) in New Orleans! Imtiaz gave a talk titled "Challenges and opportunities of in-house integration of memristor devices on foundry CMOS ". Dr. Adam served as co-chair of the " Emerging technologies III" session.
June 2022: We organized a GW nanotechnology outreach event in partnership with the Girls Global Academy high school thanks to the kind sponsorship of the IEEE Electron Device Society. Read more at link.
May 2022: Dr. Adam gave an invited talk at the AVS Mid-Atlantic chapter meeting titled “Memristor engineering towards next-generation analog neuromorphic systems”.
May 2022: Dr. Adam with collaborator Dr. Lan (ECE) received a collaborative grant from the US Military Academy for 2022-2023.
April 2022: Victoria received the GW Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations!
April 2022: Our group presented two posters at the GW Research showcase. Osama (PhD) presented a poster titled "Streaming Gradient Tracking using Non-negative Matrix Factorization" (link). Sean (undergrad) presented a poster titled "Virtual Reality in the Semiconductor Industry" (link), which was selected as a winner in the Physical Sciences category. Congratulations!
March 2022: Dr. Adam served in a panel on Neuromorphic Computing at the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics Annual Congress. She gave a talk titled "Memristors and Analog Neuromorphic Hardware: Challenges and Opportunities".
March 2022: Our paper on data-driven statistical Kriging techniques for non-ideal memristor device modeling has been published in Scientific Reports. Available here.
March 2022: We had a strong presence at IEEE EDTM this year. Imtiaz presented a paper titled "Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process for ReRAM Device Modeling". Dr. Adam served as the vice-chair of the " Disruptive Technologies - IoT, AI/ML, Neuromorphic & Quantum Computing". She was also the organizer of the short course on "Devices and Material Innovation for New Paradigms of Computing" and chaired a technical session.
Jan 2022: Dr. Adam received a grant for outreach from the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
Jan 2022: Dr. Adam received a MSE grant from the Information Technology Laboratory at NIST Boulder.
Nov 2021: Our paper on gradient decomposition methods for training non-ideal memristor-based neural networks has been published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the neuromorphic engineering section. Available here.
Nov 2021: Imtiaz presented a poster titled "ReRAM device modeling using Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process" at MEMRISYS 2021.
Oct 2021: Osama presented a poster titled "Algorithmic improvements and optimizations for training memristor-based neural networks" at WD’s Innovation Bazaar 2021.
Sept 2021: Dr. Adam gave an invited talk titled "Manufacturability Challenges and Integration Opportunities of Oxide-based Resistive Switches" at E-MRS Fall meeting on September 23rd.
Fall 2021: Our group has a new PhD student. Joey joined our group starting this semester. Welcome!
July 2021: Our paper titled "A System for Validating Resistive Neural Network Prototypes" in collaboration with NIST and WD was presented to the ICONS 2021 conference.
May 2021: Dr. Adam with collaborator Dr. Wang (Statistics) received an GWU seed grant as part of the Cross Disciplinary Research Fund for 2021-2022.
Jan 2021: Dr. Adam is a guest co-editor for a Special Research Topic in Frontiers in Nanotechnology. Submit your research paper at link.
Jan 2021: Our group has two new PhD students. Zhuolin has graduated with her MSc and is staying in the group as a PhD student. Osama joined our group starting this semester. Welcome!
Aug 2020: Our paper in collaboration with Kvatinsky group has been published in Proceedings of IEEE. Available here.
Aug 2020: Aaron and Jonathan are embarking on their graduate studies journeys - Aaron as a PhD student at MIT and Jonathan as a MSc student at Carnegie Mellon University. Congratulations!
Jul 2020: Imtiaz joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome!
Jun 2020: Yutong's and Shang's paper titled "Batch training for neuromorphic systems with device non-idealities" was been accepted to the ICONS 2020 conference (happening virtually in July).
March 2020: Prof. Adam received an NSF CRII grant to study distributed memristive systems for biosignal processing.
March 2020: Jonathan received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations!
Dec 2019: Zixiang has been admitted to the PhD program at Vanderbilt University from Spring 2020. Congratulations!
Nov 2019: Dr. Adam with collaborators from NIST and WD have received an ONR / DARPA grant to study memory efficient hardware accelerators for neural network training.
Oct 2019: Yin's student paper titled "Streaming Batch Gradient Tracking for Neural Network Training" was been accepted to AAAI 2020 conference. Yin also presented on this work as part of our R&D showcase and the ECE Blitz. Congratulations!
June 2019: Dr. Adam with collaborators Dr. Efimov (BME) and Dr. Mercader (School of Medicine) received an GWU seed grant as part of the Cross Disciplinary Research Fund for 2019-2020.
May 2019: Alyssa has received a Clare Boothe Luce fellowship! Congratulations!
May 2019: Dr. Adam will be the session chair for session 7B - Nanoelectronics at EIPBN 2019 held in Minneapolis from 28th-31th of May.
April 2019: Dr. Adam received an GWU seed grant as part of the University Facilitating Fund for 2019-2020.
March 2019: Lei has been accepted to the PhD program with a Philip / Tomofel Sprawcew Endowment Scholarship! Congratulations!
Jan 2019: Dr. Adam received an award for excellence in research from the Association of Romanian Researchers Ad Astra link RO.
Dec 2018: Our paper in collaboration with Prodromakis group has been published in Nature Communications. Available here.
Nov 2018: You can find us in the ECE department at the George Washington University, working together with our collaborators from NIST Gaithersburg (US), University of Southampton (UK), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and IMT Bucharest (Romania).