Presenter

Shruti Kulkarni is a research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Learning Systems group. She completed her PhD from New Jersey Institute of Technology with a major in Electrical Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Bipin Rajendran. Her dissertation was on bio-inspired learning and hardware acceleration with emerging memories. She then did a postdoctoral study at ORNL with Dr. Catherine Schuman, focused on evolutionary algorithms in neuromorphic computing and scaling the spiking neural network simulations to HPC systems. Her research spans different aspects of neuromorphic computing including algorithms, applications, and hardware codesign. She has 19 peer reviewed journal and conference publications