Kris Carlson is Manager of Applied Research at BrainChip Inc, a company that develops both hardware and software neuromorphic computing solutions. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar in Jeff Krichmar’s cognitive robotics laboratory at UC Irvine where he studied unsupervised learning rules in spiking neural networks (SNNs), the application of evolutionary algorithms to SNNs, and neuromorphic computing. Afterward, he worked as a postdoctoral appointee at Sandia National Laboratories where he studied uncertainty quantification in computational neural models and helped develop neuromorphic systems. In his current role, he develops, modifies, and optimizes neural and machine learning algorithms for development on BrainChip’s latest neuromorphic system on a chip, Akida.