Congratulations to Lyes Khacef on finishing his PhD

The BICS is happy to congratulate Lyes Khacef on successfully defending his PhD thesis titled 'Exploration of brain-inspired computing with self-organizing neuromorphic architectures' at the Université Cote d'Azur, France. He worked on understanding and modeling the local computations behind the self-organization capabilities of the brain. He proposed a new model for multimodal unsupervised learning based on local structural and synaptic plasticity rules, implemented on FPGA-based cellular neuromorphic hardware. He is currently working on the modeling and hardware prototyping of spike-based synaptic plasticity rules, for learning spatio-temporal patterns using neuromorphic vision and audio sensors.