Interview: Algorithms Researcher

• about to complete PhD in neuromorphic enginering
• experience in recent and potentially interesting future developments in the field
• familiar with taking orthogonal approaches due to the nature of events
• worked on Loihi for the past 1.5 years
• authored several software packages

Lenz et al. 2020

Lenz et al. in preparation

Maro & Lenz  2019

Questions

• online learning only? graph search, CO, RL, VSA, control...
• collaborations possible?
• Lava co-development
• how close to biology is desirable?
• scale: does it make sense to start bigger

Lenz et al. 2020

Lenz et al. in preparation

Maro & Lenz  2019

Challenge

• robust approach to feature learning are disentangled causal factors
• modularized (shallow?) knowledge representations
• interaction to guide compartmentalisation of knowledge
• hierarchies of representations, world primitives vs. higher level features

Lenz et al. 2020

Lenz et al. in preparation

Maro & Lenz  2019