From Edge to Intelligence: Light-Driven Synaptic Devices for Adaptive Healthcare and Vision Systems
The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving a new generation of smart edge devices that combine sensing, computing, and learning capabilities at extremely low power. By leveraging 3D integration, these devices achieve remarkable miniaturization while boosting performance and energy efficiency. This seminar presents a flexible, back-end-of-line compatible optoelectronic synapse developed for neuromorphic edge computing. The device features light-tunable synaptic plasticity and ultra-low energy operation, enabling adaptive learning for personalized healthcare monitoring and intelligent vision systems. This technology opens exciting pathways toward next-generation wearable and bio-inspired computing platforms.
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Dr. Dayanand Kumar is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the SAMA Laboratory, KAUST. He received his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Varanasi, India, and his Ph.D. from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. During his doctoral studies, he was honored by the President of Taiwan for outstanding academic research performance. Following his Ph.D., he worked as a Principal Integration Engineer at Micron Technology, Taiwan, and subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan.
Dr. Kumar’s research focuses on Emerging memory devices for in-memory sensing and computing; smart multifunctional optoelectronic synaptic devices—including memristors, transistors, and capacitors—for bionic machine vision and physiological signal processing applications.
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