Massimiliano Versace (born December 21, 1972, in Monfalcone, Italy) is the co-founder and the CEO of Neurala Inc,[1][2][3][4][5] a Boston-based company building Artificial Intelligence emulating brain function in software and used in automating the process of visual inspection in manufacturing.

In December 2010, Versace published a cover-featured articled on the IEEE Spectrum [11] describing the roadmap to develop a large scale brain model making use of memristor based technologies.

In 2006, with two colleagues from Boston University, he co-founded Neurala [14] Inc. to bring this technology to market[34] in applications ranging from robots, to drones, and other smart devices.

Massimiliano Versace's pioneered research in continual learning [4][43][44][21] neural networks, in particular applied to cortical models of learning and memory, and how to build intelligent machines equipped with low-power, high density neural chips that implement large-scale brain circuits of increasing complexity.

His Synchronous Matching Adaptive Resonance Theory (SMART) model[45][38] shows spiking laminar cortical circuits self-organize and stably learn relevant information, and how these circuits be embedded in low-power, memristor-based hybrid CMOS chip and used to solve challenging pattern recognition problems.