EPFL Team Proposes Novel Analog DNN Circuit
The research team plans to extend the precision of their weight generator circuit to support DNN applications that require weight precision higher than 4 bits. They are also exploring different types of digital-to-analog converter types for their weight generator circuit. Although the proposed circuit is applicable to any type of neural network, the EPFL researchers aim to benchmark their design with a recurrent neural network (RNN) workload and achieve a significant improvement in performance and energy-efficiency.
Bryan Ford among Switzerland’s Top 100 Digital Shapers
An eleven-member jury formed by Swiss business magazine Bilanz has announced the 100 most important heads of Switzerland who are at the forefront of digitization this year. The list of achievers has been sorted into various categories such as investors, blockchainers, scalers, transformers, administrators, drone acrobats, mentors, and data miners. Among the blockchainers is Professor Bryan Ford, who heads the Decentralized and Distributed Systems Lab (DEDIS) at EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences.
ERC Starting Grant for “CodeSan”
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant for the open-source research proposal “Code Sanitization for Vulnerability Pruning and Exploitation Mitigation.” The Principal Investigator of the research is Professor Mathias Payer, IC tenure-track assistant professor and head of the HexHive lab on software systems security at EPFL.