Dr. Bhattacharjee will deliver a Mind in Vitro seminar on October 2, 2026 at 4:15pm in 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building.
Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces will help treat brain disorders, augment the healthy brain, and shed light on how the brain as an organ gives rise to the mind. Delivering on this promise requires the design of computer systems that delicately balance the tight power, latency, and bandwidth trade-offs needed to decode brain activity, stimulate biological neurons, and control assistive devices most effectively. This talk presents my group's work on building an accelerator-rich flexible programming fabric for brain interfacing. Our design supports neural decoding pipelines for treatment of several neurological disorders and experimental neuroscience. Central to our design is end-to-end hardware acceleration, from the microarchitectural to the distributed system level.
Biography: Dr. Bhattacharjee is a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He received the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award in 2023 for “contributions to memory address translation in widely used commercial microprocessors and operating systems,” as well as Best Paper Awards at ISCA 2023, ASPLOS 2023, and ASPLOS 2026. Six of his papers have been selected for IEEE Micro’s Top Picks in Computer Architecture, with two additional honorable mentions, and two of his papers were selected for ISCA’s 50th Anniversary Retrospective in recognition of their lasting impact on the field. During his time on the Yale faculty, Abhishek also received the Dylan Hixon ’88 Prize and the Ackerman Award, Yale’s highest recognition for teaching and mentoring. He was a keynote speaker at ASPLOS 2023, is currently serving as a Program Committee Chair for ASPLOS 2027.