BioRC Publications

BioRC Publications (available on request)

1. “Analog Neurons with Dopamine-Modulated STDP,” Kun Yue and Alice C. Parker, BIOCAS 2019 Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Nara, Japan, Oct. 17-19, 2019.

2. “Analog Neurons that Signal with Spiking Frequencies,” Kun Yue, Xiaoyu Wang, Jay Jadav, Akshay Vartak, and Alice C. Parker, ICONS International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems, Knoxville, TN, July 23-25, 2019.

3. “An Electronic Neuron with Input-Specific Spiking,” Rebecca K. Lee and Alice C. Parker, IJCNN International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Budapest, Hungary, July 14-19, 2019

4. “Simulation Studies of Neuronal Modulation Using Magneto-electric Nanoparticles for Astrocyte Stimulation,” Kun Yue, Rebecca K. Lee, and Alice C. Parker, 9th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 20 - 23, 2019.

5. "Incorporating Astrocytes into Spiking Neuromorphic Designs using Dual-Gated Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) FETs," Kun Yue, Alice C. Parker, Han Wang, 18th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Cork, Ireland, July 23-26, 2018.

6. “A Power-Efficient Biomimetic Intra-Branch Dendritic Adder,” Pezhman Mamdouh and Alice C. Parker, IJCNN Proceedings, May, 2017.

7. “C. elegans Neuromorphic Neural Network Exhibiting Undulating Locomotion,” N. Agarwal, N. Mehta, A. Parker and K. Ashouri, IJCNN Proceedings, May, 2017.

8. “A Switched-Capacitor Dendritic Arbor for Low-Power Neuromorphic Applications,” Pezhman Mamdouh and Alice C. Parker, ISCAS Proceedings, May, 2017.

9. Noisy Neuromorphic Neurons with RPG On-chip Noise Source,” Kun Yue and Alice C. Parker, IJCNN Proceedings, May, 2017.

10. MODELING BRAIN DISORDERS IN SILICON NANOTECHNOLOGIES, Parker, A. C., Barzegarjalali, S., Yue, K., Lee, R. and Patil, S. (2016) in Wireless Computing in Medicine: From Nano to Cloud with Ethical and Legal Implications (ed M. M. Eshaghian-Wilner), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/9781118993620.ch14.

11. “An Analog Neural Network that Learns Sudoku-Like Puzzle Rules,” Saeid Barzegarjalali and Alice C. Parker, Future Techologies Conference FTC 2016, San Francisco, Dec. 2016.

12. “A Bio-inspired Electronic Mechanism for Unsupervised Learning using Structural Plasticity,” Saeid Barzegarjalali and Alice C. Parker, Future Techologies Conference FTC 2016, San Francisco, Dec. 2016.

13. "A CMOS Circuit Implementation of Retrograde Signaling in Astrocyte-Neuron Networks", Rebecca Lee and Alice C. Parker, IEEE 2016 Biomedical Circuits & Systems Conference BIOCAS, Shanghai, October 17-19, 2016.

14. “Noisy Neuromorphic Circuit Modeling Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,” Saeid Barzegarjalali, Kun Yue, and Alice C. Parker, 29th IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM-ON-CHIP CONFERENCE (SOCC 2016), Sept. 2016.

15. “Neuromorphic Circuit Modeling Directional Selectivity in the Visual Cortex”
Saeid Barzegarjalali and Alice C. Parker, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference(EMBC'16), Aug. 2016.

16. “A Neuromorphic Circuit Mimicking Biological Short-Term Memory,” Saeid Barzegarjalali and Alice C. Parker, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC'16), Aug. 2016.

17. "A Hybrid Neuromorphic Circuit Demonstrating Schizophrenic Symptoms," Saeid Barzegarjalali and Alice C. Parker, BIOCAS 2015, Oct. 22-24, Atlanta, GA.

18. "Neural Circuits for Touch-Induced Locomotion in Caenorhabditis Elegans," Sukanya Patil, Kaidi Zhou and Alice C Parker, presented at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN, Killarney, Ireland, July, 2015.

19. "An Astrocyte Neuromorphic Circuit that Influences Neuronal Phase Synchrony," Yilda Irrizarry-Valle and Alice C. Parker, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 9, No. 2. (April 2015), pp. 175-187.

20. ``A Separated Carbon Nanotube Synapse,'' Rebecca K. Lee, Jialu Zhang, Alice C. Parker, and Chongwu Zhou, IEEE EMBC Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine Conference, Turtle Bay, 1 page paper, December 2014.

21. ``Nanoscale Neuromorphic Circuit To Model Demylination/Remyelination,'' Kun Yue and Alice C. Parker, IEEE EMBC Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine Conference, Turtle Bay, 1 page paper, December 2014.

22. "Dynamic Spike Threshold and Nonlinear Dendritic Computation for Coincidence Detection in Neuromorphic Circuits," Chih-Chieh Hsu and Alice C. Parker, 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'14), Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 26-30, 2014.

23. Border Ownership in a Nano-Neuromorphic Circuit using Nonlinear Dendritic Computations, Chih-Chieh Hsu and Alice C. Parker, IJCNN, Beijing, China 2014.

24. Astrocyte on Neuronal Phase Synchrony in CMOS, Yilda Irizarry-Valle and Alice C. Parker, IEEE ISCAS, Melbourne, Australia.

25. A Biomimetic Nanoelectronic Neuron with Enhanced Spike Timing, Chih-Chieh Hsu and Alice C. Parker, IEEE ISCAS, Melbourne, Australia.

26. An Adaptable CMOS Depressing Synapse with Detection of Changes in Input Spike Rate, Yilda Irrizarry-Valle, Alice C. Parker and Norberto Grzywacz, IEEE LASCAS, Feb., 2014, Santiago, Chile.

27. Neuromorphic Network Implementation of the Somatosensory Cortex, Jonathan Joshi, Alice C. Parker and Tansu Celikel, IEEE EMBC Conference on Neural Engineering, Nov. 2013, San Diego.

28. Biomimetic Non-linear CMOS Adder for Neuromorphic Circuits, Xiahan Zhou, Yimu Guo, Alice C. Parker, Chih-Chieh Hsu and John Choma, IEEE EMBC Conference on Neural Engineering, Nov. 2013, San Diego.

29. A CMOS Neuromorphic Approach to Emulate Neuro-Astrocyte Interactions, Yilda Irrizarry-Valle, Alice C. Parker and Jonathan Joshi, IJCNN, Aug. 2013.

30. Challenges for Brain Emulation: Why is it so Difficult? Rick Cattell and Alice Parker, Natural Intelligence, the INNS Magazine, v. 1, issue 3, Spring/Summer 2012, pp. 17-31.

31. Synaptic Variability in a Cortical Neuromorphic Circuit, Mohammad Mahvash and Alice C. Parker, Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on, Volume: 24 , Issue: 3, 2013, Page(s): 397 - 409.

32. A Neuromorphic Circuit that Computes Differential Motion, Ko-Chung Tseng and Alice C. Parker, Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Boise, Aug. 2012.

33. Modeling Intrinsic Ion-Channel and Synaptic Variability in a Cortical Neuromorphic Circuit, Mohammad Mahvash, and Alice C. Parker, BIOCAS 2011, Nov. 2011.

34. A Directionally-Selective Neuromorphic Circuit Based on Reciprocal Synapses in Starburst Amacrine Cells, Ko-Chung Tseng, Alice C. Parker, and Jonathan Joshi, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Sept, 2011.

35. An In-silico Glial Microdomain to Invoke Excitability in Cortical Neural Networks, Joshi, Jonathan, Parker, Alice C. and Tseng, Ko-Chung, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, May 2011.

36. A biomimetic fabricated carbon nanotube synapse for prosthetic applications, Jon Joshi; Jialu Zhang; Chuan Wang; Chih-Chieh Hsu; Alice C. Parker.; Chongwu Zhou; and Udhay Ravishankar; Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop (LiSSA), 2011 IEEE/NIH, April 2011

37. Dendritic Computations, Dendritic Spiking and Dendritic Plasticity in Nanoelectronic Neurons, Chih-Chieh Hsu, Alice C. Parker and Jonathan Joshi, IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, Aug 2010.

38. A Memristor Spice Model for Designing Memristor Circuits, Mohammad Mahvash and Alice C. Parker, MWSCAS, Aug. 2010, Seattle.

39. Towards biomimetic stereo vision, Benjamin L. Raskob and Alice C. Parker, NAECON 2010

40. A Carbon Nanotube Spiking Cortical Neuron with Tunable Refractory Period and Spiking

41. Duration, presented at the LASCAS Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010

42. A Carbon Nanotube Cortical Neuron with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Sept. 2-6, 2009

43. A Hierarchical Artificial Retina Architecture, the International Symposium on SPIE Europe Microtechnologies for the New Millennium, 4-6 May 2009, in Dresden, Germany

44. A Carbon Nanotube Cortical Neuron with Excitatory and Inhibitory Dendritic Computations

45. Managing Complexity in an Autonomous Vehicle

46. A Carbon Nanotube Implementation of Temporal and Spatial Dendritic Computations

47. A Biomimetic Carbon Nanotube Synapse Circuit

48. Emulation of Neural Networks on a Nano-scale Spin-Wave Architecture

49. Emulation of Neural Networks at Nanoscale

50. Estimation of Maximum Connections for CMOS Neuron Chip Design

51. Towards a Nanoscale Artificial Cortex

BioRC Dissertations:

1. Power-Efficient Biomimetic Neural Circuits, Pezhman Mamdouh

2. Modeling Astrocyte-Neural Interactions in CMOS Neuromorphic Circuits, Rebecca Kim Lee

3. Modeling Astrocyte-Neural Interactions in CMOS Neuromorphic Circuits, Yilda Irizarry-Valle

4. Demonstrating the role of multiple memory mechanisms in learning patterns using neuromorphic circuits , Saeid Barzegarjalali

5. DENDRITIC COMPUTATION AND PLASTICITY IN NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITS, Chih-Chieh Hsu

6. Adaptive Event-Driven Simulation Strategies for Accurate and High Performance Retinal Simulation, Adi N. Azar

7. Emulating Variability in the Behavior of Artificial Central Neurons, Mohammad Mahvash Mohammadi

8. A FREQUENCY-BASED MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF BINOCULAR COMPLEX CELL RESPONSES, Benjamin L. Raskob

9. Neuromorphic Sensing Circuits in a Silicon Retina, Ko-Chung Tseng

10. Plasticity in CMOS Neuromorphic Circuits, Jonathan Joshi

Publications and Dissertations Available on Request