A Brain-Inspired Approach to Rapid and Energy Efficient Information Processing: AI on the Fly – TAMU X-grants
Senior Personnel: S. Banerjee (Lead), P. Shamberger (Co-Lead), S. Williams (Co-Lead), R. Arroyave, P. Balbuena, J. Batteas, L. Fang, B. Mallick, S. Palermo, M. Pharr, X. Qian, K. Xie
Processing, storing, and transmitting information already accounts for ca. 10% of global energy use; estimates suggest that by 2040, the demand for computation will be 10× higher than the projected global energy supply. The human brain serves as a powerful exemplar of processing complex information with minimal energy dissipation.
Unlike binary von Neumann architectures, where computing operations constantly fetch data from a central processor, neural elements use distributed, dynamically evolving, and interacting weights (memories) stored across a dense, highly interconnected network.
Key Publications:
- P. Schofield, E.J. Braham, B. Zhang, J.L. Andrews, H. Drozdick, D. Zhao, W. Zaheer, R. Gurrola*, K. Xie, P.J. Shamberger, X. Qian, S. Banerjee, Decoupling the Metal—Insulator Transition Temperature and Hysteresis of VO2, Chem. Commun., 58, 6586-6589 (2022). doi: 10.1039/d2cc01599d
- A. Bradicich*, H. Clarke*, E.J. Braham, A. Yano*, D. Sellers, Sarbajit Banerjee, P.J. Shamberger. Probing Relaxation Dynamics and Stepped Domain Switching in Boron-Alloyed VO2, Advanced Electronic Materials, 8(3), 2100932 (2021). doi: 10.1002/aelm.202100932.
- A. Yano*, H. Clarke*, D. Sellers, E.J. Braham, T.E.G. Alivio, S. Banerjee, P.J. Shamberger. Towards High-Precision Control of Transformation Characteristics in VO2 through Dopant Modulation of Hysteresis, J. Phys. Chem. C., 124(39), 21223-21231 (2020). doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c04952
- Sellers, E. Braham, R. Villarreal, B. Zhang, A. Parija, T.D. Brown*, T. Alivio, H. Clarke*, L. De Jesus, L. Zuin, D. Prendergast, X. Qian, R. Arróyave, P.J. Shamberger, S. Banerjee. An Atomic Hourglass and Thermometer Based on Diffusion of a Mobile Dopant in VO2, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142(36), 15513-15526 (2020). doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c07152
- Braham, E., D. Sellers, Emmons*, R. Villarreal, H. Asayesh-Ardakani, N. Fleer, K. Farley, R. Shahbazian-Yassar, R. Arroyave, P.J. Shamberger, S. Banerjee. Modulating the Hysteresis of an Electronic Transition: Launching Alternative Transformation Pathways in the Metal—Insulator Transition of Vanadium(IV) Oxide, Chemistry of Materials, 30(1), 214-224 (2018) . doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04203