Chairholder | Benoît Miramond

Benoît Miramond is full Professor at Université Côte d'Azur. He is currently the head of the eBRAIN research Group, working on neuromorphic engineering and Edge AI. He is involved in the french research program on AI through the EMERGENCES project from PEPR IA. In this context, his research is following an interdisciplinary approach to explore novel neural architectures inspired from neurosciences and cognitive sciences for embedded AI applications. Benoit Miramond is also member of the executive committee of GDR BioComp, of the scientific commitee of NeuroMod institute and head of Research and Innovation at Polytech Nice Sophia.

The research project seeks to draw on the structure and function of the biological brain to develop more energy-efficient AI methods and algorithms. 

The scientific approach ranges from neural dynamics to the emerging cognitive properties of these networks and ultimately to the design of embedded neuromorphic electronic circuits to reconsider the Von Neumann computer paradigm. 

The research leaded in the context of the 3IA Chair addresses the following scientific questions:

• Minimization of the quantization error of spiking neural networks with binary and graded spikes
• Integration of focus of attention in Deep (spiking) learning models
• Increase of activity sparsity with event-based processing in image and video processing
• Frugal training with self-organizing brain-inspired multimodal neural models
• Maximization of algorithm/architecture adequation with Hw Aware NAS for Edge AI