General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-24-0625
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Engineering science
Thesis topics
Reliable In Memory Computing Implementation of stochastic ultra-low-power bio- inspired neural networks
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The automated resolution of cognitive tasks primarily relies on learning algorithms applied to neural networks which, when executed on standard CMOS based digital architectures, lead to a power consumption several orders of magnitude larger than what the brain would require. Moreover, Conventional Edge neural network solutions can only provide output predictions, lacking the ability to accurately convey prediction uncertainty due to their deterministic parameters and neuron activations, resulting in overconfident predictions. Being able to model and compute the uncertainty of a given prediction allows the user to make better decisions (e.g. in classification or decision making processes) that can be therefore explained, which is crucial in a variety of applications, such as the safety-critical tasks (e.g., autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis and treatment, industrial robotics, and financial systems). Probabilistic neural network is a possible solution to deal with uncertainty prediction. In addition, the power consumption can be drastically reduced by using hardware computing systems with architectures inspired by biological or physical models. They are mainly based on nanodevices mimicking the properties of neurons such as the emission of stochastic or synchronous spikes. Numerous theoretical proposals have shown that nanoscale spintronic devices (MTJ) are particularly well adapted. They can be used as stochastic components or as deterministic components.
University / doctoral school
Electronique, Electrotechnique, Automatique, Traitement du Signal (EEATS)
Université Grenoble Alpes
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/02/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
ANGHEL Lorena lorena.anghel@grenoble-inp.fr
Grenoble INPG
Laboratoire SPINTEC
06 82 31 26 47
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
ANGHEL Lorena lorena.anghel@grenoble-inp.fr
Grenoble INPG
Laboratoire SPINTEC
06 82 31 26 47
En savoir plus
https://www.spintec.fr/research/spintronic-ic-design/