Project Grant 2153622

This National Science Foundation project grant of $600,000 supports research through June 2025 at the University of Notre Dame under the Office of International Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.079). The grant funds a partnership between researchers at Notre Dame and Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France to study the impact of emerging information processing technologies on computer architectures and applications. Specifically, the researchers will examine how new architectures enabled by technologies such as non-silicon transistors can continue performance scaling trends while meeting computational needs for emerging applications at the edge. An emphasis is placed on machine learning and hardware support for algorithms with limited training data as well as analog hardware to efficiently support training and inference. The researchers will also consider hardware architectures that merge logic and memory to securely process algorithms such as AES and homomorphic encryption. Systematic benchmarking of proposed hardware solutions against state-of-the-art technologies will be conducted.