Engineering Colloquium

Who: Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar, heads a research group on Analog VLSI and Biological Systems at MIT. Dr. Sarpeshkar will describe the ongoing research on building high performance, ultra-low-power silicon chips inspired by the biological cochlea. Such chips have applications in various domains where spectral analysis in noisy environments is essential, such as in bionic implants for the deaf or in speech recognition. Dr. Sarpeshkar will demonstrate an application from this research, an all-analog, soon-to-go-commercial bionic ear processor with such low power consumption that a conventional A-D-then-DSP technique will not be able to beat it two decades in the future.

When/Where: Monday, Sept 29 in the bldg. 3 Goett auditorium at 3:30 p.m.