Melika Payvand

Melika Payvand is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics,
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Her recent research interest is in developing on-device learning systems that
form themselves to the sensory input in a real-time fashion. Specifically, she
exploits the physics of resistive memory for synaptic, neuronal, dendritic and
structural plasticity, inspired by the structure-function relationship of the
brain circuits.

Melika is the recipient of the 2023 “Swiss ERC” starting grant and ‘‘Best Neuromorph’’
award at 2019 Telluride workshop. She has co-coordinated the European project
NEUROTECH , is the program co-chair of the International
Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS) and co-organizes the scientific program
of the Capocaccia Neuromorphic Intelligence workshop.