Alessio Carpegna is a Ph.D. Candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. His research focuses on Artificial Resilience and Neuromorphic Computing.

He is an Electronic Engineer, with a specialization in Electronic Systems. His main focus is on hardware architectures, design of hardware electronic circuits and software to interface them. 

His current work consists in the development of hardware accelerators for Neuromorphic Systems. In particular he concentrates on Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), mainly targeting an FPGA implementation. The goal is to develop a flexible accelerator that can be used for edge computing in IoT and embedded systems. The choice of the FPGA as a target platform mainly depends on its high configurability. Moreover it is a component which is generally available on many IoT  devices. The developed accelerator can become part of a family of different hardware accelerators, all integrated on the same FPGA. 

In the meanwhile he’s exploring the field of Artificial Resilience, that consists in trying to detect a fault or malfunctioning and to learn how to make the electronic system more robust to it. He’s studying the problem from two different perspectives: on the one hand he performs a fault injection on the Spiking Neural Network itself, studying the impact on its accuracy and performance; on the other hand he considers an external architecture as the target for the fault injectionand uses Spiking Neural Network to detect the presence of the fault.

The goal will be then to join Artificial Resilience and Neuromorphic Computing and to create an hardware accelerator for SNN that is resilient to faults and to use it to monitor an external electronic system to make it more robust to faults. This could help in reducing the costs of duplicating every component in a mission critical application.