Kwabena Adu Boahen (born 22 September 1964) is a Ghanaian-born Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
in electrical engineering in 1989 from Johns Hopkins University and his PhD in computation and neural systems in 1997 from the California Institute of Technology, where he was advised by Carver Mead.
Having explored this unique hybrid of digital and analogue techniques over the past three decades, neuromorphic engineers are now beginning to understand and exploit its advantages.
Boahen's work has demonstrated that neuromorphic computer chips are capable of reproducing many types of brain phenomena across a large range of scales.
Utilizing these breakthroughs, Boahen's Stanford lab built the first neuromorphic system with one million spiking neurons (and billions of synapses).
In contrast, simulating one million interconnected cortical neurons in real-time using traditional super-computers requires as much power as several thousand households.