Short Biography
Jean-Michel PORTAL is a full professor in Aix-Marseille University (Polytech Marseille microelectronic and telecommunication departement), and permanent researcher in Institut Materials Microelectronic and Nanoscience of Provence (IM2NP) where he is deputy director of the institute.
He holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1996) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, both from Montpellier University, France (1999). Prior to joining Aix-Marseille University, he was a research associate at Montpellier University, France. Prof. Portal is recipient of the Nanoarch 2012 Best Paper Award, the Newcas 2013 Best Paper Award, 2022 ICMTS Best Paper Award, 2022 VLSI-SoC Best Paper Award and the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award.
He has been serving as TPC member for many conferences and is reviewer for several journals and funding agencies. He served as Topic chair "Emerging Technologies for Future Memories" for DATE'17-19. He is currently Associate Editor in Frontiers in neuroscience section Neuromorphic Engineering.
The research activities and interests of Prof. Portal are currently focused on the development of novel non-volatile memory solutions and hybrid design based on emerging memories for Neuromorphic and ML applications.
Open Positions
Prof. Portal research group has currently Post-doc and PhD open positions. Interested applicants should send CV and research statement to Prof. Portal by email.
Latest News (updated 10/2024)
- Some papers in the way in collaboration with LN2 find them on arXiv / Research square -> thank you Nikhil !!! - Versatile CMOS Analog LIF Neuron for Memristor-Integrated Neuromorphic Circuits, Unsupervised local learning based on voltage-dependent synaptic plasticity for resistive and ferroelectric synapses
- Congrats Mona !!! A nice paper in Communications Engineering - Implementation of binarized neural networks immune to device variation and voltage drop employing resistive random access memory bridges and capacitive neurons
- Great achievement for CEA/C2N & IM2NP collaboration 2023 - Our Nature Communications paper is here !!! Powering AI at the edge: A robust, memristor-based binarized neural network with near-memory computing and miniaturized solar cell
- 5 patents in 2024 on IMC solutions, congrats to Valentin, Mona, Julien !!! (Buffer memory adapted to implment calculations having operands as data, Self-referenced and regulated sensing solution for phase change memory with ovonic threshold switch, Electronic circuit with rram cells, Three-dimensional nor memory structure)
- Collaboration CEA/C2N & IM2NP @ IEDM'23 Bayesian In-Memory Computing with Resistive Memories
- Great achievement for CEA/C2N & IM2NP collaboration 2023 - Our Nature Electronics paper is here !!! A memristor-based Bayesian machine
- BEP, CHOOSE, FERROFUTURE, EMERGENCE projects selected in the national PEPR funding program !!!
- Congrats Eduardo !!! A nice paper in Advanced Intelligent System 2022 : Experimental Demonstration of Multilevel Resistive Random Access Memory Programming for up to Two Months Stable Neural Networks Inference Accuracy
- Patent with Valentin 2022 : Device comprising a non-volatile memory circuit
- Felicitation Joel !!! Congrats for your paper in Advanced Electronic Materials : 1S1R optimization for high‐frequency inference on binarized spiking neural networks
- Felicitation Joel !!! Collaboration CEA-Leti & IM2NP @IMW 2022 : 1S1R sub-threshold operation in Crossbar arrays for low power BNN inference computing
- Felicitation Eduardo !!! collaboration CEA with C2N and IM2NP @IRPS 2022 : Experimental demonstration of Single-Level and Multi-Level-Cell RRAM-based In-Memory Computing with up to 16 parallel operations
- A nice paper in the framework of our common Lab with STMicroelectronics @ ICMTS22 : SuperCAST: a full free addressable memory array
- Best Paper Award for Fadi @ ICMTS22 : Embedded measurement of the SET switching time of RRAM memory cells
- Best Paper and Student Award for Julien @ VLSI-SoC22 : A Self-referenced and regulated sensing solution for PCM with OTS selector
