ABOUT ME
I am an engineer, neuromorph. I love table tennis, the sea, and science.
Since 12 yeas old, I spend a lot of time and have a lot of fun on playing table tennis, watching tournaments. I also like hiking, swimming.
I grew up in the Southwest inland of China, the first time that I saw the real sea was at my age 20 in Dalian.
In front of the sea, I was so excited and started having appreciation for how little actually I am. I am a speck of dust, one tiny atom of nature .
I always love to go to the beach for a breeze, and listen to the song of water —— "All rivers run to the sea".
In my opinion, all the progresses of human civilization are essentially actuated by the power of science (e.g. natuarl science, social science), which is an amazing invisible abstract intellectual system invented by human to understand, explore the universe and create new tools that do not exist before.
As a member of this special species (human being) on the earth, I would love to contribute to carry forword this most precious heritage passed on to us by our great ancestry, like the great writers and scientists who guided me through darkness.
Science is hard, and I am a PhD student now!
Junren Chen (陈俊任)
Education
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2020 - present
Joint PhD program of UZH & ETH, Neuroscience & Neuromorphic Engineering, Institute of Neuroinformatics, advisor: Prof. Giacomo Indiveri
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2017 - 2020
M.Sc. in Electronic and Information Engineering, advisor: Prof. Huaqiang Wu
Cultural Background
From Guizhou Province, China. Guizhou is well known for the Chinese liquor, Maotai and Huangguoshu Waterfall.
In the southwest of China, people like spicy food.
I'm good at:
Coding (Matlab/ Python/ C/ Verilog)
Chip Design
Photography
Publications / Patents
Research Projects
Grant
Countries / Cities Visited
MY WORK
Here are some of my latest work
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Profession (neuromorph, integrated circuit designer)
Keywords: Neuromorphic Engineering, Integrated Circuits, Memristor
General overview of my research (since 2017)
Memoristor crossbar routing in neuromorphic chips [1], [2] (since 2021, my major PhD topic)
A parallel multibit ReRAM programming scheme & methodology [3-5] (2018.09~2020.06, my Master's thesis)
A differential memristive synapse circuit [pdf] (2020.11~ , 1st tapout of my PhD, used in an EU project)
Accelerator for binary-weight Convolutional Neural Networks (2018.04~2019.07)
We received the 2023 ICECS Best Paper Award!
Scaling NVMs in Event-Driven Architectures for Edge Inference
Corresponding Publications
2024
2023
2022
2020
2019
Projects for Master Students
You can find one available project for master students "SA/MA: Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) on Memristor Crossbar-based Neuromorphic Hardware" on INI website Student Projects. I also have other ideas for either hardware or algorithms. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to do a project or thesis with me.
Services
Photography
Irchel Park, Zurich (15.01.2021)
Zurichberg, Zurich (16.01.2021)
Ueterliberg, Zurich (25.10.2020)
2021 New Year's Eve, Zurich
Christmas vacation 2023, Tromso, Norway
Orca in Arctic Circle, Jøkelfjord, Norway
Fin whale in Arctic Circle, Jøkelfjord, Norway
BOOKS I LIKE
Here are some books that I like/ am reading.
Scientific
The Brain, The Story of You
How Innovation Works (创新的起源, by Matt Ridley)
Literature (Novel/ Fiction/ Essay)
亲爱的安德烈, by 龙应台
目送, by 龙应台
Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦, by 曹雪芹、高鹗)
看见, by 柴静
Cries in the Drizzle (在细雨中呼喊, by 余华)
流金岁月, by 亦舒
灵魂的事, by 史铁生 (我特别喜欢“好运设计”和“爱情问题”两篇文章)
Murder on the Orient Express(东方快车谋杀案), by Agatha Christie
Romeo and Juliet (罗密欧与朱丽叶), by William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird (杀死一只知更鸟), by Harper Lee
我的精神家园, by 王小波
Politics
WRITING
It is naive, but I take it as my debut short fiction (my only one fiction/novel till now). It was published as a serial short fiction on the WeChat webpage of School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology. During the graduation season in the university, students were encouraged to post articles to express whatever they want to say to classmates, teachers and the university, or the lessons they learned, etc.
"In this short fiction, I want to write about a certain kind of youth at present, their loneliness, their thinking and their concerns." It expresses some of the values that I developed (at age 23) after my college education and reading some great books. The name of this fiction is "An Encounter with My University". “关于此文，我想写的是当下的某一种青年，在某一阶段，他们的孤独，他们的思考，他们的关怀。” 它表达了我23岁时在接受了大学教育以及读了一些好书以后形成的一些价值观。I'd love and appreciate your feedback!
Email: junren@ini.uzh.ch
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