It’s been a while! – a lot has happened since I last made a post ! – but we’re still here.
Nathan Renegar is now on board as a graduate student and is working on neuronal culture and an effort to stimulate them in a way to create computational networks! A really new direction for the lab.
Congratulations to Chenxi Wen for successfully defending his PhD dissertation today! Best wishes for the future Dr. Wen !
August 12, 2021 – With the coming of the Fall 2021 Semester, University of Maryland (College Park) prepares for the cautious return to in-person classes as the pandemic continues. The increasing spread of the delta-variant of the COVID19 has brought back the indoor masking requirement so it appears (unless things change soon), that we will be teaching with masks on. How will this work? Will we be able to have students discussing problems in groups in the classroom like the ‘before times’ ? Amplified mask microphones? Darth Vader voice processing?
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A nice article talking about the 2020 Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
https://www.eetimes.com/telluride-neuromorphic-engineering-workshop-goes-large/#
We congratulate Jacob Isbell for passing his PhD Dissertation defense! His Dissertation is titled, “Bio-Inspired Sonar in Complex Environments: Attentive Tracking and View Recognition”
A news article about Melanie Anderson’s (UW) Smellicopter project. My contribution was the idea of using a fin to passively point the quadcopter upwind instead of trying to use sensors to detect the direction of wind and then actively turn towards the wind. Go Melanie!
My collaborative input was made possible by an Air Force Center of Excellence (“NIFTI”) grant that involves: U Washington, U Maryland, UC Boulder, Johns Hopkins U, Carnegie-Mellon U, Case-Western Reserve U.
Here at UMD, Fall classes have restarted online! – Since we’re starting this way (in contrast to the crash transition in March 2020) things should go more smoothly. Some in-person classes are scheduled to begin on campus in a week if the health situation doesn’t deteriorate. Not my circuits theory course, however, since we can do everything online. I do miss working with students in person.
Neuromorphs without Walls !
The workshop lives on! – Come join us for the 2020 Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop in hyperspace.
https://sites.google.com/view/telluride2020/home
University of Maryland, College Park transitions to a new President! – Congratulations to Darryll Pines!
We’ve received funding under the MIPS (Maryland Industrial Partnerships) to pursue Phase 2 of our project named “Counter Drone Vision-Based Tracking Algorithm” in collaboration with Airgility Inc. to develop vision algorithms for detecting and tracking unauthorized drones in the sky.