Emre Neftci

Dr. Neftci received his MSc degree in physics from EPFL in Switzerland, and his Ph.D. in 2010 at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. He is an associate professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine and since July 2021, an institute director at the Jülich Research Centre. His current research explores the bridges between neuroscience and machine learning, with a focus on the theoretical and computational modeling of learning algorithms that are best suited to neuromorphic hardware and non-von Neumann computing architectures.