{"601808":{"#nid":"601808","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Krishna Selected for NSF CRII Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETushar Krishna has been selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKrishna is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where he leads the Synergy Lab. This two-year-long NSF award will support his project entitled \u0026ldquo;Enabling Neuroevolution in Hardware.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the past few years, machine learning algorithms, especially neural networks (NN) have seen a surge of popularity owing to their potential in solving a wide variety of complex problems across image classification and speech recognition. Unfortunately, in order to be effective, NNs need to have the appropriate topology (connections between neurons) for the task at hand and have the right weights on the connections. This is known as supervised learning and requires training the NN by running it through terabytes to petabytes of data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis form of machine learning is infeasible for the emerging domain of autonomous systems (robots\/drones\/cars) which will often operate in environments where the right topology for the task may be unknown or is constantly changing, and robust training data is not available. Autonomous systems need the ability to mirror human-like learning, where we are continuously learning, and often from experiences rather than being explicitly trained. This is known as reinforcement learning.\u2028\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe focus of Krishna\u0026rsquo;s research will be on neuroevolution (NE), a class of reinforcement learning algorithms that evolve NN topologies and weights for the task at hand using evolutionary algorithms. The goal of this project will be on enabling NE in energy-constrained autonomous devices by leveraging opportunities for parallelism and hardware acceleration. If successful, this research could enable mass proliferation of autonomous drones and robots that can learn to perform tasks without being explicitly trained.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;Tushar Krishna has been selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor\u00a0Tushar Krishna has been selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-02-02 21:31:15","changed_gmt":"2018-02-02 21:31:15","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"490461":{"id":"490461","type":"image","title":"Tushar Krishna","body":null,"created":"1453827600","gmt_created":"2016-01-26 17:00:00","changed":"1475895245","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:05","alt":"Tushar Krishna","file":{"fid":"204433","name":"tushar_krishna.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tushar_krishna_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tushar_krishna_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30703,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tushar_krishna_0.jpg?itok=jRBZzVsr"}}},"media_ids":["490461"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/tushar-krishna","title":"Tushar Krishna"},{"url":"http:\/\/synergy.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Synergy Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov","title":"National Science Foundation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"173453","name":"Tushar Krishna"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"176999","name":"neural networks"},{"id":"177000","name":"image classification"},{"id":"177001","name":"speech recognition"},{"id":"177002","name":"neuroevolution"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-489-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}