Jason Eshraghian
Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz, leading UCSC Neuromorphic Computing Group. Focuses on brain-inspired circuits for AI & SNNs. Maintainer of snnTorch.

Jason Eshraghian
Jason Eshraghian is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, leading the UCSC Neuromorphic Computing Group .
His research focuses on brain-inspired circuit design to accelerate AI algorithms and spiking neural networks.
He is the maintainer of snnTorch .
Contributions
Initiatives
- Founders
Founders of Open Neuromorphic
- Workshop Hosting
Facilitating Workshops
Workshops
- Project Phasor - Kickoff
January 28, 2025 at 19:00 - 20:00 CET
Brian Anderson and others discuss the newly launched Project Phasor, aiming to organize efforts towards neuromorphic and NeuroAI virtualization and compilation.
- Advances in Neuromorphic Visual Place Recognition
April 18, 2024 at 23:00 - 00:30 CET
Tobias Fischer shares advances in neuromorphic visual place recognition.
- NIR: A unified instruction set for brain-inspired computing
February 5, 2024 at 18:00 - 20:00 CET
We show how to use the Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation to migrate your spiking model onto neuromorphic hardware.
- IBM NorthPole - Neural inference at the frontier of energy, space, and time
January 25, 2024 at 18:00 - 19:30 CET
NorthPole outperforms all prevalent architectures, even those that use more-advanced technology processes.
- Does the Brain do Gradient Descent?
July 11, 2023 at 18:00 - 19:30 CET
Explore the brain's potential use of gradient descent in learning processes with Konrad Kording in this engaging recorded session.
- Hands-on with Xylo and Rockpool
April 26, 2023 at 18:00 - 19:30 CET
Discover Xylo and Rockpool in a hands-on session with Dylan Muir, exploring cutting-edge neural computation architectures and signal processing.
- Hands-On with Sinabs and Speck
April 4, 2023 at 18:00 - 19:30 CET
Join Gregor Lenz for an engaging hands-on session featuring Sinabs and Speck. Explore the world of neuromorphic engineering and spike-based machine learning.
- Evolutionary Optimization for Neuromorphic Systems
March 21, 2023 at 18:00 - 19:30 CET
Dive into evolutionary optimization techniques for neuromorphic systems with Catherine Schuman, an expert in the field. Watch the recorded workshop for valuable insights.
- Hands-On with snnTorch
March 2, 2023 at 18:00 - 19:30 CET
Join Jason Eshraghian for an engaging hands-on session featuring snnTorch. Explore the world of neuromorphic engineering.
- PEPITA - A Forward-Forward Alternative to Backpropagation
February 14, 2023 at 18:00 - 19:30 CET
Explore PEPITA, a forward-forward approach as an alternative to backpropagation, presented by Giorgia Dellaferrera. Learn about its advantages and implementation with PyTorch.