Biography
Dr. Kwabena Boahen is currently an Associate Professor of
Bioengineering at Stanford University following his recent transition
from University of Pennsylvania.
He is using silicon integrated circuits to understand the way
neurons compute, linking the seemingly disparate fields of electronics
and computer science with neurobiology and medicine. His numerous
contributions to the field of neuromorphic engineering include a
silicon retina that could be used to give the blind sight and a silicon
chip that emulates the way the juvenile brain wires itself up. His
research interests include mixed-mode multichip VLSI models of
biological sensory and perceptual systems, their epigenetic
development, and asynchronous digital communication for reconfigurable
connectivity.
Dr. Boahen is the recipient of the NSF Career Award, Packard Foundation Fellowship, and the Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator Program Award.
Dr. Boahen received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical &
Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and Ph.D.
degree in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute
of Technology (under Carver Mead) in 1997.
