Bert Jan Offrein

Bert Jan Offrein received his Ph.D. degree in nonlinear integrated optics from the University of Twente in The Netherlands in 1994. He then joined IBM Research Europe - Zurich and contributed to establishing and commercializing adaptive integrated optical technology for DWDM networks. From 2004 to 2016, Bert Offrein was managing the photonics group, addressing optical interconnects for computing systems. Since 2016, he is leading the neuromorphic devices and systems group, focussing on novel hardware for neural networks. Bert Offrein is co-author of over 150 publications and co-inventor of more than 40 patents. He currently is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research Europe-Zurich and Professor by special appointment on ‘analog signal processing’ at the University of Twente.

Talk: Brain-Inspired Computing – Architectures and Technology

Abstract:
The field of artificial intelligence and brain-inspired computing covers a wide range of paradigms, architectures, hardware, and algorithms. I will give an overview of the field, address efforts for making today’s deep neural networks more efficient and discuss the potential of novel more brain-inspired signal processing paradigms.

<< Back to Brainspiration