Melika Payvand
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Designs neuromorphic electronic systems and hybrid CMOS-memristor circuits, co-designing hardware and on-chip learning algorithms for NeuroAI.
Melika Payvand's lab at ETH Zurich works on accelerators, chips & architecture. 26 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly Nature Communications and Nature. 6 PhD students.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 27%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 5
- 7 papers2024 · T1 2
- 8 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Nature Communications, Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence, Neuron
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Accelerators, chips & architecture4 papers
- on-chip1 paper
- hybrid0 papers
- information technology0 papers
- d-itet0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20261 paper
202510 papers
- ISCASAn Event-Based Line Sensor with Configurable Antagonistic Center Surround (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Communications (T1)Backpropagation through space, time and the brain (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Communications (T1)DelGrad: exact event-based gradients for training delays and weights on spiking neuromorphic hardware (opens in a new tab)
- ISCASEvent-based Audio Prediction with Spectro-Temporal Event-Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- Neuron (T1)How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain
- IEEE Transactions on Electron DevicesMonolithic 3-D Integration of Diverse Memories: Resistive Switching (RRAM) and Gain Cell (GC) Memory Integrated on Si CMOS (opens in a new tab)
- Nature (T1)Neuromorphic computing at scale (opens in a new tab)
- ICONS '25: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic SystemsQuantizing Small-Scale State-Space Models for Edge AI (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Communications (T1)The neurobench framework for benchmarking neuromorphic computing algorithms and systems (opens in a new tab)
- SNWUnified Memcapacitor-Memristor Memory for Synaptic Weights and Neuron Temporal Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- Neture CommunicationsDenRAM: Neuromorphic Dendritic Architecture with RRAM for Efficient Temporal Processing with Delays (opens in a new tab)
- Neuromorphic Computing and EngineeringEditorial: Focus issue on in-memory computing (opens in a new tab)
- NICEHardware-aware Few-shot Learning on a Memristor-based Small-world Architecture (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Learning efficient backprojections across cortical hierarchies in real time (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Communications (T1)Mosaic: in-memory computing and routing for small-world spike-based neuromorphic systems (opens in a new tab)
- Nature ElectronicsScaling neuromorphic systems with 3D technologies (opens in a new tab)
- Communications EngineeringSpike frequency adaptation: bridging neural models and neuromorphic applications (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic MovementsBrief Submotor-Threshold Electrical Stimulation Applied Synchronously Over Wrist Flexor and Extensor Muscles does Not Suppress Essential Tremor, Independent of Stimulation Frequency (opens in a new tab)
- ASYNCCore interface optimization for multi-core neuromorphic processors
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic SystemsDendritic Computation through Exploiting Resistive Memory as both Delays and Weights (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsFlexible Unipolar IGZO Transistor-Based Integrate and Fire Neurons for Spiking Neuromorphic Applications (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic SystemsGMap: An Open-source Efficient Compiler for Mapping any Network onto any Neuromophic Chip (opens in a new tab)
- AICASNeuromorphic analog circuits for robust on-chip always-on learning in spiking neural networks (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express BriefsScaling Limits of Memristor-Based Routers for Asynchronous Neuromorphic Systems (opens in a new tab)
- AICASSynaptic metaplasticity with multi-level memristive devices (opens in a new tab)
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