“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood …” - Marie Curie

I am a final year Ph.D. student at the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems (CSMS) Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (JHU). My current research spans the spectrum of biomorphic computer vision, neuromorphic circuits & systems that promise energy-efficient Artificial Intelligence and neural interfacing electronics that hold implications for neurorehabilation as well as bidirectional communication between digital and biological (neural tissue) computers. I am advised by Dr. Ralph Etienne-Cummings, known for early works in the neuromorphic engineering and robotics. I was a visiting scholar at Dr. Gert Cauwenberghs’ Integrated Systems Neuroengineering (ISN) Lab, UC San Diego under the auspices of the NeuroPAC AccelNet Fellowship in the Fall of 2024. Prior to joining the CSMS Lab in 2020, I worked as a research intern at the Dr. James Weiland’s BioElectronic Vision Lab, University of Michigan. There, I collaborated on a number of projects in the areas of retinal prostheses, optimization for closed-loop neurostimulation^[1] and calcium imaging. In Summer 2022, I received the MSE in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University en route the Ph.D. I also received an MS in Electronics Engineering from Norfolk State University(NSU) in 2020. At NSU, I worked at the Computational Cardiac Engineering Lab and was advised by Dr. Makarand Deo. My master’s thesis there focused on the formulation of heuristically optimized computational model^[2] of a stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte with implications in cardiac safety pharmacology. I hold a BSc. Biomedical Engineering (First Class Honors) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana which I received in 2017. On the lighter side, I love to cook and listen to Afrobeats. At my leisure, I dabble in world history, philosophy and sci-fi.

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News

• [May 2025] Paper “Sensing Temporal Codes and Probing System Responses with Spikes: An Active Pixel Approach” received Best Paper Award - Honorary Mention at ISCAS 2025
• [February 2025] 1 paper accepted at 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
• [September 2024] Visiting Scholar at the Gert Cauwenberghs’ Integrated Systems Neuroengineering (ISN) Lab, University of California San Diego
• [July 2024] Participated in the 2024 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop.
• [April 2024] 1 paper³ accepted at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) 2024
• [February 2024] Passed JHU ECE Graduate Board Oral Exam
• [January 2024] Awarded the NSF AccelNet NeuroPAC Fellowship for Fall 2024 research at UCSD with Dr. Gert Cauwenberghs (See Announcement)
• [July 2023] Participated in the 2023 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop.
• [April 2023] Presented “A Current-Mode Implementation of a Nearest Neighbor STDP Synapse” accepted to the IEEE NEWCAS 2023 Conference, Scotland Edinburgh
• [February 2023] Seminal papers [1,2] on the exploration of the new ‘Organoid Intelligence’ field published in Frontiers in Science and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
• [November 2022] Speaking at the Laboratory for Computational Sensing + Robotics (LCSR) Seminar - 11/06. Abstract.
• [October 2022] JHU Diploma arrived in the mail! MSE in Electrical Engineering en route the PhD.
• [July 2022] Presented LODeNNS at the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS 2022).
• [July 2022] Participated in the 2022 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop.
• [December 2021] Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
• [September 2021] Passed JHU ECE Department Qualifying Exam
• [June 2021] Paper published in Frontiers in Physiology
• [December 2020] Received NSU Diploma. MS in Electronics Engineering.
• [August 2020] Joined the Johns Hopkins University, Awarded the Dean Robert H. Roy Fellowship
• [March 2020] Defended master’s thesis at NSU.
• [April 2020] 2 papers^[1][2] accepted at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) 2020
• [January 2020] Joined the BioElectronic Vision Lab at the University of Michigan as a research intern.