Neuromorphic Engineering Book
  • Welcome
  • Preliminaries
    • About the author
    • Preface
    • A tale about passion and fear
    • Before we begin
  • I. Introduction
    • 1. Introducing the perspective of the scientist
      • From the neuron doctrine to emergent behavior
      • Brain modeling
      • Take away lessons
    • 2. Introducing the perspective of the computer architect
      • Limits of integrated circuits
      • Emerging computing paradigms
      • Brain-inspired hardware
      • Take away lessons
      • Errata
    • 3. Introducing the perspective of the algorithm designer
      • From artificial to spiking neural networks
      • Neuromorphic software development
      • Take home lessons
  • II. Scientist perspective
    • 4. Biological description of neuronal dynamics
      • Potentials, spikes and power estimation
      • Take away lessons
      • Errata
    • 5. Models of point neuronal dynamic
      • Tutorial - models of point neuronal processes
        • The leaky integrate and fire model
        • The Izhikevich neuron model
        • The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron model
      • Synapse modeling and point neurons
      • Case study: a SNN for perceptual filling-in
      • Take away lessons
    • 6. Models of morphologically detailed neurons
      • Morphologically detailed modeling
      • The cable equation
      • The compartmental model
      • Case study: direction-selective SAC
      • Take away lessons
    • 7. Models of network dynamic and learning
      • Circuit taxonomy, reconstruction, and simulation
      • Case study: SACs' lateral inhibition in direction selectivity
      • Neuromorphic and biological learning
      • Take away lessons
      • Errate
  • III. Architect perspective
    • 8. Neuromorphic Hardware
      • Transistors and micro-power circuitry
      • The silicon neuron
      • Case study: hardware - software co-synthesis
      • Take away lessons
    • 9. Communication and hybrid circuit design
      • Neural architectures
      • Take away lessons
    • 10. In-memory computing with memristors
      • Memristive computing
      • Take away lessons
      • Errata
  • IV. Algorithm designer perspective
    • 11. Introduction to neuromorphic programming
      • Theory and neuromorphic programming
      • Take away lessons
    • 12. The neural engineering framework
      • NEF: Representation
      • NEF: Transformation
      • NEF: Dynamics
      • Case study: motion detection using oscillation interference
      • Take away lessons
      • Errate
    • 13. Learning spiking neural networks
      • Learning with SNN
      • Take away lessons
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About the author

Dr. Elishai Ezra Tsur

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Elishai is the principal investigator of the Neuro-Biomorphic Engineering Lab (NBEL-lab.com) and an Assistant Professor for Mathematics and Computer Science at the Open University of Israel. In his research, Elishai studies the realm of brain-inspired machines. He utilizes artificial brains to develop new frameworks for robotics and vision processing. Elishai is a university lecturer for artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling, software engineering, and computational biology. He was named an INK Fellow in 2013 (INK, India) and a Dean Fellow for Computational Neuroscience in 2018 (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). Elishai holds degrees in Life Sciences (B.Sc.), Philosophy and History (B.A.), Computer Science (M.Sc.), Bioengineering (MSc, Ph.D.), and Computational Neuroscience (PostDoc).

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