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Lab\u00a0Researchers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staff<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Role<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Rishad Shafik<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Professor and Principal Investigator<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Alex Chan<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Research Associate, SONNETS programme, Machine Learning for Event-Triggered Systems<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tousif Rahman<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Research Associate, SONNETS programme, Machine Learning for Event-Triggered Systems<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Olga Tarasyuk<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Visiting Researcher, working on visualisation of explainable AI algorithms and systems<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Marcos Sartori<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Research Associate, ESTEEM project, Flexible Machine Learning Integrated Circuit Design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Shengyu Duan<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Research Associate, ESTEEM project, Flexible Machine Learning Integrated Circuit Design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Congyi Xu<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD Student, working on event-triggered HW design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Yushu Qin<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD student, working on flexible IC design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Jesse Ojukwu<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD student, working on AI-enabled Digital Twinning Systems<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Yujin Zhang<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Researcher, working on IC Design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gang Mao<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD Researcher, working on Asycnronous Machine Learning Hardware Design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Omar Ghazal<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD Researcher, working on Mixed-Signal AI Hardware Design.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Bob Pattison<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Researcher, working on machine learning using Tsetlin Machine principles<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ivan Shmarov<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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(Graduated) worked on Power Infused AI Systems, together with Dr Pablo Docampo (Glasgow) and Dr Thomas Billam (Newcastle)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Komal Krishnamurthy<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD Researcher, working on Analogue-Asynchronous Co-design for Machine Learning Systems<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tain Lan<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD Researcher, working on Analogue Circuit Design Methods<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Svein Anders Tunheim<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD Researcher (based primarily in University of Agder), working on scalable AI hardware architectures.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Naveed Saba<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PhD Researcher (primary supervisor Dr Annette Pantall), working on wearable systems for muscle health and analysis.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Current MSc and Undergraduate Project Students<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Pavan Ambrekar is an\u00a0MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating verification and validation architecture for AI hardware.<\/li>\n
  2. Srikanth Pitta is an\u00a0MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating audio wearable design using Learning Automata based AI hardware.<\/li>\n
  3. Kaiyun Chen is an\u00a0MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating mixed signal memristor-based approximate arithmetic design.<\/li>\n
  4. Zheyuan Xu is an\u00a0MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating energy harvesting and management for solar-powered circuits.<\/li>\n
  5. Eileen Li is an\u00a0MSc student from our Biomedical Stream. She is currently studying the use of AI for detecting epileptic seizures.<\/li>\n
  6. Ahmed Eldahesh is an\u00a0MSc student from our MSc Embedded Systems and IoT cohort. He is currently studying low-power data encoding methods for Learning Automata based AI hardware.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Lab Alumni<\/b><\/p>\n

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    1. Mohammed A. N. Al-hayanni was a PhD student (15-19) — currently working as an academic in Iraq.<\/li>\n
    2. Issa Qiqieh was a PhD student (14-18) — currently working as an academic in Jordan.<\/li>\n
    3. Francesco Mazzei was an MS intern — currently working in Manchester in an SME.<\/li>\n
    4. Ms \u00d6. Zulal Tanr\u0131vermi\u015f was an Erasmus+ intern\u00a0 — currently studying further in Turkey.<\/li>\n
    5. Matt Travers was an MEng student in 2015-2016 academic year —\u00a0 currently working in a finance investment company.<\/li>\n
    6. Ahmed Khadim was\u00a0an MSc student in 2015-2016 academic year — currently an academic of a university in Iraq.<\/li>\n
    7. Joshua Da Costa was a\u00a0Stage 3 BEng project student, who is currently working in banking sector.<\/li>\n
    8. Harry Snell was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying further.<\/li>\n
    9. Dainius Jenkus was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying for PhD in the lab.<\/li>\n
    10. Joe Scott\u00a0was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying for PhD in Newcastle.<\/li>\n
    11. Joel Holland\u00a0was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying for PhD in Newcastle.<\/li>\n
    12. Danny Harris was a\u00a0Stage 3 BEng student, who studied energy efficiency of multi-layered AI hardware.<\/li>\n
    13. Luke Waller was a Stage 4 Industrial Intern, who studied temporal computing methods for AI hardware.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Lab\u00a0Researchers Staff Role Rishad Shafik Professor and Principal Investigator Alex Chan Research Associate, SONNETS programme, Machine Learning for Event-Triggered Systems Tousif Rahman Research Associate, SONNETS programme, Machine Learning for Event-Triggered Systems Olga Tarasyuk Visiting Researcher, working on visualisation of explainable AI algorithms and systems Marcos Sartori Research Associate, ESTEEM project, Flexible Machine Learning Integrated Circuit … <\/p>\n

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