ECE 301 Digital Electronics (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
Course Description: Introduces digital systems, circuits, and computers. Topics include binary systems and codes, digital logic gates and circuits, microelectronics and integrated circuits, coding and multiplexing, multivibrators, shift registers, counters, A/D converters, and elementary computer architecture.
ECE 445 Computer Organization (Fall 2024)
Course Description: This course provides a general overview of the operation of a digital computer. Topics include computer
arithmetic, the arithmetic and logic unit, hardwired and microprogrammed control, memories, register-to-register
data transfer, input-output operations, and behavioral modeling of computer organization using VHDL. The
course also provides an introduction to assembly language programming, using the MIPS processor.
ECE 556 Neuromorphic Computing (Fall 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
Course Description: This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective on
neuromorphic computing across the full stack of computing. It examines fundamentals
and learning of artificial neural networks (ANNs), discusses operational principles
and learning in spiking neural networks (SNNs), and reviews their implementations
in hardware. It presents several state-of-the-art learning algorithms such as
converting ANN to SNN, spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP), evolutionary
approaches, and reservoir computing. Hardware-aware neural architecture search and
Bayesian optimization approaches are also covered to co-optimize algorithm- hardware
in this full-stack computing framework. This course involves projects focusing on
applications of neuromorphic computing in computational neuroscience, control and
robotics, smart healthcare, and smart city design.