Doctor Mark Wang

Doctor Mark Wang

Senior Lecturer in Bioelectronics and Neuroscience,
International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems

Lecturer,
Dean's Unit School of Engineering

Senior Lecturer,
Dean's Unit, School of Eng, Design & Built Enviro.

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Western Sydney
  • MEng Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • BCommEng East China Normal University (PRC)

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems
  • Dean's Unit School of Engineering
  • Dean's Unit, School of Eng, Design & Built Enviro.

Contact

Email: mark.Wang@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 47360 473
Mobile:
Location: BA.2.05
Penrith (Werrington South)

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Publications

Journal Articles

  • Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Wang, R., Cohen, G., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T. and Schaik, A. (2021), 'A biologically inspired sound localisation system using a silicon cochlea pair', Applied Sciences, vol 11, no 4 .
  • Singh, R., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Denham, S. and Schaik, A. (2019), 'CAR-Lite : a multi-rate cochlear model on FPGA for spike-based sound encoding', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 66, no 5 , pp 1805 - 1817.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Singh, R., Hamilton, T., Wang, R. and van Schaik, A. (2018), 'A FPGA implementation of the CAR-FAC cochlear model', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12, no APR .
  • Thakur, C., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Etienne-Cummings, R., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, F. (2018), 'An analogue neuromorphic co-processor that utilizes device mismatch for learning applications', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 65, no 4 , pp 1174 - 1184.
  • Wang, R. and Schaik, A. (2018), 'Breaking Liebig's law : an advanced multipurpose neuromorphic engine', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12 .
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C. and Schaik, A. (2018), 'An FPGA-based massively parallel neuromorphic cortex simulator', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12 .
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C., Cohen, G., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2017), 'Neuromorphic hardware architecture using the neural engineering framework for pattern recognition', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol 11, no 3 , pp 574 - 584.
  • Thakur, C., Afshar, S., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'Bayesian estimation and inference using stochastic electronics', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 10 .
  • Thakur, C., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'A low power trainable neuromorphic integrated circuit that is tolerant to device mismatch', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol 63, no 2 , pp 211 - 221.
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A neuromorphic implementation of mutliple spike-timing synaptic plasticity rules for large-scale neural networks', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 9 .
  • Thakur, C., Wang, R., Afshar, S., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., Shamma, S. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'Sound stream segregation : a neuromorphic approach to solve the 'cocktail party problem' in real-time', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 9 .
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A mixed-signal implementation of a polychronous spiking neural network with delay adaption', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 8, no 51 .
  • Hussain, S., Basu, A., Wang, R. and Hamilton, T. (2014), 'Delay learning architectures for memory and classification', Neurocomputing, vol 138 , pp 14 - 26.

Conference Papers

  • Perera, S., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Schaik, A. and Wang, R. (2021), 'Live demonstration : an FPGA-based emulation of an event-based vision sensor using commercially available camera', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Daegu, Korea.
  • Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Singh, R., Wang, R., Schaik, A. and Hamilton, T. (2019), 'A binaural sound localization system using deep convolutional neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sapporo, Japan.
  • McDonnell, M., Mostafa, H., Wang, R. and Schaik, A. (2019), 'Single-bit-per-weight deep convolutional neural networks without batch-normalization layers for embedded systems', Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Singh, R., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., van Schaik, F. and Denham, S. (2018), 'CAR-Lite : a multi-rate cochlea model on FPGA', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Florence, Italy.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Singh, R., Hamilton, T., Wang, R. and van Schaik, F. (2018), 'A machine hearing system for binaural sound localization based on instantaneous correlation', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Florence, Italy.
  • McDonnell, M., Wang, R. and van Schaik, F. (2017), 'Reduced-memory training and deployment of deep residual networks by stochastic binary quantization', Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Workshop, San Jose, Calif..
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'A stochastic approach to STDP', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Montreal, Canada.
  • Wang, R., Cohen, G., Thakur, C., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'An SRAM-based implementation of a convolutional neural network', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Shanghai, China.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Singh, R., Wang, R., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'Electronic cochlea : CAR-FAC model on FPGA', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Shanghai, China.
  • Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Wang, R., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A neuromorphic hardware framework based on population coding', International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland.
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A compact aVLSI conductance-based silicon neuron', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Atlanta, Ga..
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., Wang, R. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A reconfigurable mixed-signal implementation of a neuromorphic ADC', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Atlanta, Ga..
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A compact neural core for digital implementation of the Neural Engineering Framework', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'An FPGA design framework for large-scale spiking neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A generalised conductance-based silicon neuron for large-scale spiking neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A compact reconfigurable mixed-signal implementation of synaptic plasticity in spiking neurons', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Hussain, S., Basu, A., Wang, R. and Hamilton, T. (2012), 'DELTRON : neuromorphic architectures for delay based learning', IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Current Projects

Title: Turn-key neuromorphic solution for deep learning
Funder:
  • Vijna Labs Pvt Ltd
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik and Mark Wang
Years: 2019-06-01 - 2024-10-31
ID: P00025727

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