About me
My name is Petruț (Peter) Bogdan. I am currently a Neuromorphic Architect at Innatera Nanosystems BV, a neuromorphic startup based in the Netherlands. I am mainly responsible for driving the requirements of our upcoming brain-inspired chips for optimal application compatibility.
My previous role as a Research Associate focused on enabling large scale and realtime simulations of the cerebellum on digital neuromorphic hardware. Before that, I was a PhD student working on structural plasticity on the SpiNNaker Neuromorphic Platform at the University of Manchester. My research focused on creating reusable models of synaptic rewiring for topographic map formation, unsupervised and supervised learning.
I assisted with the following undergraduate courses: Mobile Systems, Microcontrollers and Fundamentals of Computer Engineering.
I obtained a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. For my final year project I created a spiking neuron-based robot control system for an art exhibition unveiled at the Manchester Art Gallery from February to June 2016 (video).
I used to be a Student Ambassador for the Human Brain Project. We organised the 3rd HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research on the 6-7 February 2019 in Ghent, Belgium; and the 5th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research virtually. The book of abstracts for the 5th conference has been published through Frontiers (find the book here).
Contact information is at the bottom of the page.
Publications
- Bogdan PA, Marcinnò B, Casellato C, Casali S, Rowley AGD, Hopkins M, Leporati F, D'Angelo E, Rhodes O (2021) Towards a Bio-Inspired Real-Time Neuromorphic Cerebellum. Front. Cell. Neurosci., 31 May 2021 doi: 10.3389/fncel.2021.622870
- Bogdan PA, Pineda-García G, Davidson S, Hopkins M, James R, Furber SB (2019), Event-based computation: Unsupervised elementary motion decomposition. Proceedings of 2019 Emerging Technology Conference, 20-23, ISBN: 978-0-9933426-4-6
- Rhodes O, Bogdan PA, Brenninkmeijer C, Davidson S, Fellows D, Gait A, Lester DR, Mikaitis M, Plana LA, Rowley AGD, Stokes AB, Furber SB (2018) sPyNNaker: a Software Package for Running PyNN Simulations on SpiNNaker. Front. Neurosci. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00816
- Bogdan PA, Rowley AGD, Rhodes O, Furber SB (2018) Structural Plasticity on the SpiNNaker Many-Core Neuromorphic System. Front. Neurosci. 12:434. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00434
- Hopkins M, Pineda-García G, Bogdan PA, Furber SB (2018) Spiking neural networks for computer vision . Interface Focus 8 20180007. doi: 10.1098/rsfs.2018.0007
Thesis
- Bogdan PA (2020), ``Structural Plasticity on SpiNNaker'', Thesis, The University of Manchester. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33591.06568
Books
- Steve Furber (ed.), Petrut Bogdan (ed.) (2020), "SpiNNaker: A Spiking Neural Network Architecture ", Boston-Delft: now publishers, doi: 10.1561/9781680836523
Book Chapters
- Bogdan, P. A., James, R., Guerra, G. F., Pineda García, G., Sen-Bhattacharya, B. (2020) "Applications − Doing Stuff on the Machine". In S. Furber & P. A. Bogdan (Eds.), "SpiNNaker: A Spiking Neural Network Architecture (1st ed., pp. 129–162). doi: 10.1561/9781680836530.ch5
- Bogdan, P. A., Pineda García, G., Hopkins, M., Jones, E., Knight, J. C., Perrett, A. (2020) "Learning in neural networks". In S. Furber & P. A. Bogdan (Eds.), "SpiNNaker: A Spiking Neural Network Architecture (1st ed., pp. 209–265). doi: 10.1561/9781680836530.ch7
- Rowley, A. G. D., Rhodes, O., Bogdan, P. A., Brenninkmeijer, C., Davidson, S., Fellows, D., Furber, S., Gait, A., Hopkins, M., Lester, D., Mikaitis, M., Plana, L., Stokes, A. (2020) "Stacks of Software Stacks". In S. Furber & P. A. Bogdan (Eds.), "SpiNNaker: A Spiking Neural Network Architecture (1st ed., pp. 209–265). doi: 10.1561/9781680836530.ch7
Slides
- Bogdan PA, Slides for HBP Tea & Slides #4, 18.06.2020, "SpiNNaker: A Spiking Neural Network"
- Bogdan PA, Slides for Emerging Technologies Conference (EMiT) 2019, 9-11 April 2019, "Event-based computation: Unsupervised elementary motion decomposition"
Posters
- Bogdan PA, Furber, SB (2018): "Simulating synaptic rewiring on SpiNNaker". figshare. Poster. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6025460.v1
- Bogdan PA, Furber, SB (2018): "Structural plasticity for motion detection on SpiNNaker using PyNN". figshare. Poster. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6949091.v1
Data
- Bogdan, P. A., Marcinnò, B., Casellato, C., Casali, S., Rowley, A. G. D., Hopkins, M., Leporati, F., D'Angelo, E., & Rhodes, O. (2020). "Supporting data for a study towards a bio-inspired real-time neuromorphic cerebellum", EBRAINS, doi: 10.25493/PBYC-R3B
- Bogdan, Petruț Antoniu; Pineda-Garcia, Garibaldi; Davidson, Simon; Hopkins, Michael; James, Robert; Furber, Steve B. (2019), "Supporting Data and Software for Event-based computation: Unsupervised elementary motion decomposition", Mendeley Data, v1, doi: 10.17632/wpzxh93vhx.1
- Bogdan, Petruț Antoniu; Furber, Steve; Pineda-Garcia, Garibaldi; Hopkins, Michael (2018), “Spiking Neural Networks for Computer Vision”, Mendeley Data, v1, doi: 10.17632/84pvnm3rj3.1
- Bogdan, Petruț Antoniu; Rhodes, Oliver; Rowley, Andrew; Furber, Steve B. (2018), “Structural plasticity on the SpiNNaker many-core neuromorphic system”, Mendeley Data, v1, doi: 10.17632/xfp84r5hb7.1