OPUS Lab is awarded the Misha Mahowald Prize in Neuromorphic Engineering

OPUS Lab is recognized for its work on Stochastic Neuromorphic Computing with Probabilistic Bits 

January 27, 2025
OPUS Lab members
OPUS Lab members

Jury Citation: The Orchestrating Physics for Unconventional Systems (OPUS) Lab implemented an architecture with special-purpose digital hardware based on three neuromorphic principles – massive parallelism, asynchronous dynamics, and sparsity – and demonstrated applications to problems in combinatorial optimization, energy-based machine learning, and quantum simulations.

 

The members of the lab who are recognized: Navid Anjum Aadit, Shuvro Chowdhury, Shaila Niazi, Kemal Selçuk, Nihal Sanjay Singh