This page presents the list of people with knowledge expertise in HD/VSA worldwide

WARNING: 

The content of this page serves mainly for information purposes and does not necessarily provides the complete picture of the community, which evolves rather rapidly. Therefore, the list is likely not complete. Please contact us if you have suggestions for inclusion.

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HD/VSA community on the map

Oceania

Independent researcher, Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Ross W. Gayler

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HD/VSA publications

Multiply-Add-Permute 

Analogical Reasoning with HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Prof. Damminda Alahakoon

Dr. Daswin De Silva

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Asia

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, South Korea

Prof. Yeseong Kim 

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Prof. Baker Mohammad 

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

North and South America

Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, Arkansas, USA

Prof. Tolga Ensari

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HD/VSA & (Spiking) Neural Networks

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Hardware for HD/VSA

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA

Dr. Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp

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HD/VSA publications

Holographic Reduced Representations

HD/VSA & Neural Networks

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Prof. M. Alex Kelly

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

HD/VSA-based Memory

HD/VSA for NLP

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Dr.  Fabio Cumbo

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Google, New York, New York, USA

Dr. Tony A. Plate

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HD/VSA publications

Holographic Reduced Representations

Analogical Reasoning with HD/VSA

Hierarchical representations with HD/VSA

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Prof. Michael N. Jones

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HD/VSA publications

Holographic Reduced Representations

HD/VSA for NLP

Word Embedding

Semantic Modelling with HD/VSA

IonQ, Seattle, Washington, USA

Dr. Dominic Widdows

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HD/VSA publications

Random Indexing

HD/VSA for NLP

Word Embedding

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Prof. Paul Smolensky

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HD/VSA publications

Tensor Product Representations

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

HD/VSA & Neural Networks

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

Kylie Huch

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Prof. Brendan T. Johns

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for NLP

Semantic Modelling with HD/VSA

Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA

Roland Fernandez

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HD/VSA publications

Tensor Product Representations

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Prof. Paul Smolensky

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HD/VSA publications

Tensor Product Representations

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

HD/VSA & Neural Networks

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Dr. Rich Pang

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Prof. Haitong Li

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Textician, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Dr. Stephen I. Gallant

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HD/VSA publications

Matrix Binding of Additive Terms

HD/VSA for NLP

The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Dr. Job Isaias Quiroz Mercado

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for NLP

HD/VSA for Knowledge Bases 

University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Dr. Connor Bybee

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Memory and Recall

Dr. E. Paxon Frady

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HD/VSA publications

Memory Capacity of HD/VSA

Theoretical foundations of HD/VSA

Resonator Networks

Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning 

Dr. Pentti Kanerva

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HD/VSA publications

Computing with High-Dimensional Vectors

Random Indexing

Sparse Distributed Memory

Youbin Kim

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Chris Kymn

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HD/VSA publications

Theoretical foundations of HD/VSA

Resonator Networks

Prof. Bruno A. Olshausen

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Visual Reasoning

Resonator Networks

Prof. Jan M. Rabaey

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Prof. Fritz Sommer

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HD/VSA publications

Memory Capacity of HD/VSA

Theoretical foundations of HD/VSA

Resonator Networks

Anthony Thomas

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HD/VSA publications

Theoretical foundations of HD/VSA

Mapping data to HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Dr. Sohum Datta (Alumnus)

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Dr. Laura I. Galindez Olascoaga
(Alumnus)

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Dr. Ping-Chen Huang
(Alumnus)

Dr. Spencer Kent (Alumnus)

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HD/VSA publications

Resonator Networks

HD/VSA for Visual Reasoning

Analogical Reasoning with HD/VSA

Dr. Alisha Menon
(Alumnus)

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HD/VSA publications

Sensor Fusion with HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Dr. Ali Moin
(Alumnus)

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Biosignals

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Dr. Andy Zhou (Alumnus)

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Biosignals

HD/VSA for Continuous Learning

Hardware for HD/VSA

University of California, Irvine, California, USA

Prof. Tony Givargis

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Prof. Mohsen Imani

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Prof. Alex Nicolau

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for VSAs

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

University of California, Riverside, California, USA

Prof. Neftali D. Watkinson Medina

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

University of California, San Diego, California, USA

Prof. Maxim Bazhenov

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HD/VSA publications

Holographic Reduced Representations

HD/VSA & Neural Networks 

Prof. Tajana Simunic Rosing

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Prof. Randall K. Jamieson

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VSAs publications

Holographic Reduced Representations

Semantic Modelling with HD/VSA

HD/VSA-based Memory

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos

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VSAs publications

HD/VSA for Robotics

Image Processing with HD/VSA

Dr. Cornelia Fermuller

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VSAs publications

HD/VSA for Robotics

Image Processing with HD/VSA

Dr. Anton Mitrokhin (Alumnus)

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VSAs publications

HD/VSA for Robotics

Image Processing with HD/VSA

Peter Sutor

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VSAs publications

HD/VSA for Robotics

Image Processing with HD/VSA

 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 

Prof. Hun-Seok Kim

 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 

Prof. Keshab Parhi

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VSAs publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Prof. Trevor Cohen

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VSAs publications

Random Indexing

HD/VSA for NLP

Word Embedding

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Nicole Sandra-Yaffa Dumont

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VSAs publications

Semantic Pointer Architecture

Spatial Cognition 

Continuous HD/VSA Representation

Prof. Chris Eliasmith

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VSAs publications

Semantic Pointer Architecture

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

Hardware for HD/VSA

Dr. Terry Stewart

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VSAs publications

Semantic Pointer Architecture

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

Biological basis of HD/VSA

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Toygun Basaklar

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VSAs publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland, USA

Dr. Douglas Summers-Stay

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VSAs publications

Information Retrieval from HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Robotics

Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA

Prof. Xun Jiao

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VSAs publications

Hardware for HD/VSA
HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, USA

Prof. Simon Levy

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VSAs publications

Analogical Reasoning with HD/VSA

Multiply-Add-Permute 

HD/VSA for Robotics

Europe

AI Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Magnus Sahlgren

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VSAs publications

Random Indexing

HD/VSA for NLP

Word Embedding

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience,  Berlin, Germany

Dr. Peter beim Graben

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VSAs publications

HD/VSA for Context-free Grammars

HD/VSA for NLP

Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

Dr. Peer Neubert

Prof. Peter Protzel

ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 

University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Prof. Luca Benini

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VSAs publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Prof. Eduard Babkin

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VSAs publications

Tensor Product Representations

HD/VSA for Decision Support Systems

Alexander Demidovskij

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VSAs publications

Tensor Product Representations

HD/VSA for Decision Support Systems

IBM, Zurich, Switzerland

Kumudu Geethan Karunaratne

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VSAs publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Dr. Abbas Rahimi

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VSAs publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Mapping data to HD/VSA

Independent researcher, Adana, Turkey

Dr. Ozgur Yilmaz

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VSAs publications

HD/VSA and Cellular Automata

Analogical Reasoning with HD/VSA

Independent researcher, Schwerin, Germany

Dr. Hedda R. Schmidtke

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VSAs publications

Reasoning with HD/VSA

Imagery with HD/VSA

Intel Labs – Autonomous Systems Research Lab, Karlsruhe, Germany

Dr. Florian Mirus

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Knowledge Representation in Automotive Context

International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Kiev, Ukraine

Prof. Dmitri A. Rachkovskij

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HD/VSA publications

Sparse Binary Distributed Representations

Mapping Data to HD/VSA

Analogical Reasoning with HD/VSA

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Prof. Jörg Conradt

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Robotics

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

HD/VSA for Scene Understanding

Prof. Jussi Karlgren

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HD/VSA publications

Random Indexing

HD/VSA for NLP

Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden

Prof. Evgeny Osipov

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HD/VSA publications

Mapping Data to HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Alexey K. Kovalev

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Prof. Aleksandr Panov

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Southampton, United Kingdom

Ryan Calmus

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HD/VSA publications

Mapping Data to HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Cognitive Tasks

Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Prof. Massimo Panella

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA & Neural Networks

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Dr. Antonello Rosato

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA & Neural Networks

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof.  David Atienza

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

HD/VSA for Biomedical Applications

Dr. Una Pale

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

HD/VSA for Biomedical Applications

Dr. Tomas Teijeiro

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HD/VSA publications

Hardware for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

HD/VSA for Biomedical Applications

Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Prof. Okko Räsänen

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HD/VSA publications

Mapping Data to VSAs

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Prof. Hussam Amrouch

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HD/VSA publications

HW/SW Co-design for HD/VSA

 Emerging technologies for HD/VSA

 Beyond von Neumann Computing

Uninettuno University, Rome, Italy

Eleonora Cappelli

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Prof. Emanuel Weitschek

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Laura Smets

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

 Mapping data to HD/VSA

Image Processing with HD/VSA

University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Prof. Kaspar A. Schindler

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HD/VSA publications

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dr. Alexander Serb

University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Paul R. Genssler

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HD/VSA publications

HW/SW Co-design for HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning

Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Dr. Denis Kleyko

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HD/VSA publications

Memory Capacity of HD/VSA

Mapping data to HD/VSA

HD/VSA for Machine Learning