Libo Chen's Lab · Neuromorphic Intelligence Department of Electrical Engineering · Uppsala University
Research themes

From device physics to intelligent systems.

Our work connects emerging nanoelectronic devices, compact circuits, event-driven sensing, and spiking neural networks for real-world edge intelligence.

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Neuromorphic devices

Emerging ferroelectric and antiferroelectric transistors for compact neuronal dynamics, low-energy switching, and scalable integration.

Brain-inspired circuits

CMOS and emerging-device neuron circuits that support leakage, integration, spike generation, reset, adaptation, and dynamic thresholding.

Spiking neural networks

Hardware-aware SNN models and benchmarks for sparse event-driven inference, low latency, and energy-efficient edge deployment.

Neuromorphic sensing

Artificial tactile and wearable sensing systems that encode physical interactions into efficient temporal representations.

Wearable digital technologies

AI-assisted sensing for gait measurement, rehabilitation assessment, and digital biomarkers for clinical and health applications.

AI

Embodied and edge AI

System-level intelligence for robots, prosthetics, wearables, and physical-world AI constrained by energy, latency, robustness, and size.

Approach

Cross-layer co-design is the central principle.

We treat material properties, device dynamics, circuit behavior, and algorithmic requirements as a coupled design space. This allows us to transform physical device effects into useful computational primitives for compact, adaptive, and energy-efficient neuromorphic systems.

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Materials and devices

Tune hysteresis, leakage, relaxation, steep-slope behavior, endurance, variability, and device operating windows.

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Circuits and architectures

Design compact neuronal and synaptic building blocks that exploit device physics instead of compensating for it.

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Sensors and interfaces

Build tactile and wearable sensor systems that generate sparse, temporal, and biologically inspired signal representations.

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Algorithms and benchmarks

Evaluate accuracy, energy per inference, latency, robustness, scalability, and relevance for edge and embodied AI.

Selected projects

Research directions.

The lab develops core neuromorphic hardware while applying event-driven intelligence to robotics, wearables, and health-related sensing.

Flagship direction

Brain-like artificial neurons with circuit-device co-design

We develop compact artificial neuron circuits using antiferroelectric/ferroelectric transistor dynamics to achieve rich neuronal functions, high efficiency, and scalable hardware implementation for spiking neural networks.

AFe / Fe transistors Adaptive LIF neurons Dynamic threshold Energy-efficient SNNs

Neuromorphic tactile intelligence

Artificial touch systems for robotic and prosthetic perception using tactile sensors, artificial neurons, receptive-field processing, and SNNs.

AI-driven digital biomarkers

Wearable sensing and machine learning for gait measurement, rehabilitation assessment, and longitudinal monitoring of disease progression.

Sustainable edge intelligence

Low-power sensors and event-driven AI for physical-world monitoring, sustainable manufacturing, and resource-aware intelligent systems.