{"id":570259,"date":"2024-06-10T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T02:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?post_type=news&p=570259"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T18:11:16","slug":"ece-graduate-student-receives-nsf-fellowship-award","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/ece-graduate-student-receives-nsf-fellowship-award\/","title":{"rendered":"ECE Graduate Student Receives NSF Fellowship Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akwasi Akwaboah, a Ph.D. candidate and Dean Robert H. Roy Fellow at the Whiting School of Engineering\u2019s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the National Science Foundation AccelNet NeuroPAC Fellowship<\/a>. This fellowship supports a collaborative exchange between Akwaboah’s home lab, the Computational Sensory Motor Systems lab led by ECE Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings, and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Integrated Systems Neuroengineering lab, directed by Gert Cauwenberghs.<\/p>\n

In fall 2024, Akwaboah will conduct research at UCSD, focusing on neural interfacing technology and neuromorphic learning. The NeuroPAC fellowship, part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative led by the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, aims to connect neuromorphic engineers globally to advance neuromorphic intelligence, inspired by the biological brain.<\/p>\n

Since joining Johns Hopkins in 2020, Akwaboah has been working on the development of bio-inspired artificial learning algorithms to create efficient AI systems like the human brain. At UCSD, he will focus on event-based learning to enhance recognition systems with limited data.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited about the prospects of this uncommon opportunity I have been given to advance research in AI and neural interfaces, particularly under the mentorship of two world-renowned names in neuromorphic and neural engineering. This award will certainly enable some cool ideas I have been working on for some time now,\u201d says Akwaboah.<\/p>\n

Etienne-Cummings adds, \u201cAkwasi has been an exemplary student since his arrival at JHU. I am very pleased that Akwasi will join Prof. Cauwenberghs\u2019 lab for the fall. I encourage my students to spend a semester or two at a collaborator\u2019s lab to learn new techniques and engage in collaborative experiments, which are crucial for their professional development. Exchanges with former JHU faculty like Prof. Cauwenberghs expand our research reach. 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