Jim Harkin
Professor
Computing, Eng & Intel. Sys
Ulster University
Ireland
Biography
Jim Harkin, Associate Head of the School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems in School of Computing, Eng & Intel. Sys at Ulster University, Dr Jim Harkin is a Reader in the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems and a member of the Computational Neuroscience and Neural Engineering team in the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC). Previously he worked as a post-doc researcher in embedded systems design at Ulster (2001-2004) on the EPSRC funded project (GR/N26753).
Research Interest
His current teaching interests relate to embedded systems encompassing digital systems design, VHDL for FPGAs and system testing. Dr. Harkin leads research on the design of intelligent embedded systems and focuses on developing electronic computing systems that can self-repair under the presence of errors. In particular, his work explores how computer models of neural networks (brain like-repair) can be mapped to hardware to build highly efficient and reliable embedded computers. His work has seen innovations in Networks-on-Chip strategies and the hardware implementation of self-repairing Spiking Neural Networks.
Publications
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Layered tile architecture for efficient hardware spiking neural networks Microprocessors and Microsystems Date: (2017)
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Homeostatic Fault Tolerance in Spiking NeuralNetworks: A Dynamic Hardware Perspective IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers Date: (2017)
