Youth AI Talk #13: Prof. Kwabena Boahen — Brain-like Computer Chips for AI

In this talk, Stanford Professor Kwabena Boahen shared his pioneering research in building brain-like computer chips and their potential impacts on AI. It was amazing to learn how he has applied interdisciplinary approach to his research and brought together the seemingly disparate fields of neurobiology and medicine with electronics and computer science.

Dr. Kwabena Boahen is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Boahen is one of the world's leading experts in low-power computer chips that work like the human brain. He founded Stanford’s Brains in Silicon lab, which develops silicon integrated circuits that emulate the way neurons compute and computational models that link biophysical neuronal mechanisms to cognitive behavior. His research is interdisciplinary, bringing together the seemingly disparate fields of neurobiology and medicine with electronics and computer science. His scholarship is widely recognized, with over ninety publications to his name. These include a cover story in Scientific American featuring his group’s work on a silicon retina and connected silicon tectum. (May 2005). He has been invited to give over 70 seminar, plenary, and keynote talks. These include a 2007 TED talk, “A computer that works like the brain”, that has been viewed half-a-million times. He has received several distinguished honors, including a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (1999) and a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award (2006). He was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2016) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (2016). In his most recent research effort, the Brainstorm Project, he led a multi-university, multi-investigator team to co-design hardware and software that makes neuromorphic computing much easier to apply. A spin-out from his Stanford group, Femtosense Inc (2018), is commercializing this breakthrough.

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