Yannick Bornat graduated in electronics at ENSEIRB in 2003. As a PhD student in the group "engineering of neuromorphic systems" at IXL laboratory, he worked on mixed signal systems for neural networks simulation. For the SENSEMAKER European project, he build a digital structure to interface analog VLSI neuromimetic circuits to a GNU/LINUX computer in real time through the PCI bus. He also designed a mixed ASIC for hardware neural simulation. He obtained his Phd in electronics in 2006.
He made a post-doc at IMT – Neuchâtel in Switzerland in 2007. He implemented digital computing on a massively parallel acquisition platform based on APS-MEA.
He is currently Associate Professor in Laboratory IMS. His research is focused on real-time digital systems to interface artificial neurons and to compute network scale phenomenon.