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Curious to explore the technology advancing Artificial Intelligence beyond the usual headlines? Brains and Machines will introduce you to the people and ideas behind neuromorphic engineering, bio-inspired robotics, and other transformative technologies shaping AI’s future. From spiking neural networks and event-cameras to models of attention and mechanisms for prosthetic control, we investigate how machine cognition is moving forward. Join Dr Sunny Bains, a scientist, journalist, and lecture ...
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Welcome to the IEEE Brain Podcast Series. In this series, we interview some of the top subject matter experts in brain research and neurotechnology. IEEE Brain Podcasts provide you with access to the industry’s best of the best.
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In this special episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Sunny Bains and Dr. Giulia D’Angelo talk to four early career researchers: Dr. Kenneth Stewart, a computer scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC; Dr. Laura Kriener, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Bern in Switzerland; Jens Pedersen, a Ph.D. stu…
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Dylan Muir, the head of research at SynSense. They discuss the company’s products, including Speck, Xylo, and Rockpool, some of the design choices that were made to bring these to market, and their recent acquisition of sister company IniVation. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia …
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains talks with Professor Christian Mayr from the Technical University of Dresden, who worked on SpiNNaker with Steve Furber for many years. He is taking that project into the future with SpiNNaker 2, which is mostly built, SpiNNaker 3, which is his next design project, and the startup SpiNNcloud. …
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Elisa Donati of the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich talks to Dr. Sunny Bains about neuromorphic circuits for prosthetics, drug delivery, and more. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague, and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins Univer…
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains discusses neuromorphic chips with Dr. Amirreza Yousefzadeh, who most recently worked at imec and the University of Twente. He has a broad background in electronics, starting with digital and then moving into neuromorphic, and he’s spent time both in industry and research. This sets him up neat…
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Professor Shih-Chii Liu, co-director of the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI)—part of both the ETH and the University of Zurich, Switzerland—talks to Brains and Machines host, Dr. Sunny Bains, about neuromorphic cochlea, sparsity and deep networks, and what it will take for the technolo…
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Professor Emre Neftci, director of the Neuromorphic Software Ecosystems group at the Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI), talks to Brains and Machines host, Dr. Sunny Bains. He and his PGI colleagues, part of the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, think about how neurons can be trained and organized to learn in an…
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Dr. Chiara Bartolozzi, head of the event-driven perception for the robotics group at the Italian Institute for Technology (IIT) in Genoa, develops analog sub-threshold circuits to make bio-inspired brains for robots. Her group focuses on exploiting information from event-driven vision and tactile sensors for cognitive tasks, and she works extensive…
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In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Tobi Delbrück, one of the original neuromorphic engineers from Carver Mead’s team at Caltech. Now a professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich, he has spent his career developing neuromorphic cameras and other technology. In this interview, you’ll find out ho…
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Sunny Bains gets deep into nanoscale ferroelectrics with Professor Beatriz Noheda, director of the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron). They discuss how this unusual interdisciplinary research center works, why nanoscale ferroelectrics may be useful in brain-like systems, and a little…
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In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Italian Institute of Technology interviews her IIT colleague, Dr. Simeon Bamford, who is currently working on tactile neuromorphic sensors. They talk about creating circuits to perform functions lost to brain damage, Bamford’s involvement with the commercialization of …
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In the latest episode of Brains and Machines, EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Professor Melika Payvand, who designs neural systems from the circuit-level up at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. You’ll find out the role that memristors are playing in the systems she designs, why neural circuits need to operate at different times…
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In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains interviews now-Emeritus Professor Steve Furber as he prepares to leave the University of Manchester. They talk about associative memories, the original SpiNNaker neural simulator designed using densely-interconnected ARM cores, and the new generation of the technology currently being as…
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In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo, from the Czech Technical University in Prague, talks to Professor Guillermo Gallego, from the Technical University of Berlin. They discuss the application of the new generation of bio-inspired, event-driven cameras and their algorithms to extract cues of motion, depth and opti…
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In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Yulia Sandamirskaya, who has just created the Neuromorphic Computing Group at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. We discuss the role that dynamical systems theory plays in robotics, her work with Intel’s Loihi platform, and what she plans to do in her new position at ZH…
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In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains talks to Professor Giacomo Indiveri, from the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. They talk about building biologically-plausible neural circuits in silicon, the trade-offs involved in using analog and digital circuits, and how the technology has been translated i…
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In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Mitra Hartmann, Professor of both Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, and head of their sensory and neural engineering group. They discuss the ways in which modelling animal perceptual systems—in her case, the rat—can make us better at both und…
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In this episode of Brains and Machines, Sunny Bains interviews Elisabetta Chicca, head of the bio-inspired Circuits and Systems research group at the University of Groningen, about building neural chips with memristors, adding electronic brains to neural robots, some of the current difficulties with learning algorithms for spiking systems and more.…
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In this first episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains interviews André van Schaik from the Western Sydney University about how neuromorphic engineering has changed since the early 90s, a new project to help simulate neural and neuromorphic models, and more. Discussion follows with Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University …
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In partnership with IEEE Electron Devices Society. IEEE Brain Podcast Series special episode with Dr. Brad Aimone, a leading researcher in neuromorphic computing at the Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Aimone discusses his work with computational and theoretical neuroscience, focused on bridging the gap between next-…
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Episode 25: Q&A with Behnaz Ghoraani, Professor and I-SENSE Fellow, Florida Atlantic University
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In partnership with IEEE Computer Society. IEEE Brain Podcast Series special episode with Dr. Behnaz Ghoraani, Professor and I-SENSE Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Ghoraani discusses her research in biomedical applications and shares insights on how technological advancements may …
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In partnership with IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. IEEE Brain Podcast Series special episode with Dr. José del R. Millán, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin; and Professor in the Dell Medical School, Department of Neurology. Dr. Millán discusses technology advancements in cli…
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In partnership with IEEE Signal Processing Society. IEEE Brain Podcast Series special episode with Dr. Maria Giulia Preti, Research Staff Scientist, CIBM SP EPFL-UNIGE Section Maître-Assistante, University of Geneva. Dr. Preti shares her research on functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and brain connectivity, and highlights the importance of…
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In partnership with IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. IEEE Brain Podcast Series special episode with Dr. Damien Coyle, UKRI Turing AI Fellow at Ulster University. Prof. Coyle highlights recent advancements in non-invasive brain-computer interfaces for therapeutic applications and the potential of wearable, AI-enabled neurotechnology.…
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In partnership with IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Brain Podcast Series special episode with Erika Ross, Director, R&D Applied Research at Abbott Neuromodulation. Erika shares insights on her education and career path, looks at case studies in the technology space, and offers advice to students and young professionals intere…
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In partnership with IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. IEEE Brain Podcast Series special episode with Dr. Jerald Yoo, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The N.1 Institute for Health at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Yoo shares insights on the benefits of advancing wearable health technology, particularly as it rela…
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In partnership with IEEE Magnetics Society. In this episode, Mark Stiles, an active member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, shares his insights on the society's work as it relates to neuroscience and brain-inspired computing technologies. Mark also offers his advice to students and yo…
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Episode 18: Q&A with Dr. Jose Carmena, University of California, Berkeley and Iota Biosciences
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In this episode, Jose Carmena from UC Berkeley discusses his firsthand experiences moving from academia to launching the neuroscience startup Iota BioSciences. Jose informs on his company’s technology, provides insights on Neurotech evolution, and sheds light on challenges and opportunities in the technology space.…
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In this episode, Cristin Welle discusses her research that lies at the intersection between neural device technology and their implications in the nervous system. Having previously worked at the FDA focused on neural interface technology, Cristin provides valuable insights on entrepreneurial opportunities, regulatory issues, and the importance of p…
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