Emre Neftci
Head Of Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolEmre Neftci is a research-driven technology leader with 13 years of experience building neuromorphic hardware and spiking neural network algorithms, currently heading the Neuromorphic Software Ecosystems institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich. His PhD work at ETH Zurich identified a composable cortical building block—soft winner-take-all circuits—that has informed scalable, low-power neuromorphic implementations and new neurally inspired ML approaches. He has translated theoretical models into silicon and real-time robotic/BCI demonstrations through postdoctoral and faculty roles at UC San Diego, ETH Zurich, and UC Irvine, bridging theory, hardware, and applied systems. Based in Aachen, Germany, he combines deep academic rigor with practical VLSI experience to drive ultra-low-power cognitive computing, and his career is notable for turning canonical cortical motifs into deployable neuromorphic architectures.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Neuroinformatics, PhD, Neuroinformatics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMsc, Physics, Msc, Physics at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, French, German, swiss-german, Turkish
Github Skills (44)
conversions9
datasets9
simulations9
chips9
auryn8
python7
sketchup6
automatic-differentiation6
gpu6
machine-learning6
pytorch6
computational-neuroscience6
jit5
simulation-framework5
autodiff5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nmi-lab/torchneuromorphic
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
Datasets recorded from Neuromorphic Sensors or Conversions using Simulations of Sensors
Contributions:80 commits, 8 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years 7 months
sensorssimulationsneuromorphicconversionsdatasets
eneftci/eCD
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year
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