- Shuvro's paper 'Pushing the boundary of quantum advantage in hard combinatorial optimization with probabilistic computers' published in Nature Communications.
- Kemal’s IEDM paper 'DAC-Free p-bits: Asynchronous Self-Coloring and On-Chip Annealing' accepted.
- NSF GRFP Fellow Jared Arzate joins as a PhD student.
- Kriteen Shrestha joins as an MS student.
- Jared Quintana Silva joins as an Undergraduate Researcher.
- OPUS students win major UCSB Graduate Fellowships.
- Kyle Lee awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship.
- Simon Arnold from Max Planck Institute joins as a visiting researcher.
- OPUS Lab awarded Misha Mahowald Prize in Neuromorphic Engineering.
Research Experience
Leads the OPUS Lab at UC Santa Barbara, which focuses on matching unique features of emerging materials to the needs of algorithms and applications to build natural and energy-efficient computing systems.
Background
Research interests lie at the intersection of physics, computer science, and electrical engineering, focusing on designing efficient hardware systems to meet the computational needs of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Pursues a Physics-to-Systems approach, combining algorithmic understanding with tailored hardware and architectures.