PhD in Microelectronics

Position as PhD Research Fellow in Neuromorphic Microelectronics available at Department of Informatics./nThe fellowship period is three years./nDepending on the candidate and the teaching needs of the department, the fellowship period can be extended either for compulsory work consisting of e.g., teaching and supervision duties and research assistance up top four years./nStarting date no later than October 1, 2026./nNo one can be appointed for more than one PhD Research Fellowship period at the University of Oslo./nPlace of work is Department of Informatics at Blindern, Oslo./nAs a response to the power hungriness of artificial intelligence (AI) there is a growing interest from the research community in exploring near-analog biologic brain inspired solutions to reduce power consumption in neural networks./nIn this project you will be involved in a collaborative effort investigating neuromorphic mixed-signal/near-analog circuits for next generation edge-AI systems. You will gain skills in custom chip design, artificial neural networks and edge-AI system implementation. The work combines circuit-level simulation, system modeling, and in-silicon hardware prototyping to evaluate approaches against performance metrics such as energy efficiency, inference accuracy and computational latency.