Sylvie Renaud is currently heading the research group “Neuromorphic Engineering” in IXL (CNRS-ENSEIRB, UMR5818).
She graduated as an Engineer from ESE (Supelec, Paris) in 1986, and obtained her PhD in electronics in 1991 and her HDR (research heading qualification) in 2001, in the University of Bordeaux.
She has a full professor position since 2002 in ENSEIRB, a national engineer school in Bordeaux, where she is since then the Director of Studies. Her teaching activities focus mainly on electronics design for analog and mixed devices, including hardware description languages.
After a stay in Brandeis University (MA, USA) in 1991-1992, she joined the IXL laboratory where she developed the research activity on analog silicon neurons and neuromorphic systems. The issues addressed by her group are the design of biomimetic integrated circuits emulating the temporal dynamics of small neural networks, and the development of hardware/software tools for computational neurosciences and neurophysiology, including hybrid living-artificial systems.