Presenter

Xabier Iturbe received his MSc degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 2007, and his PhD in Electronics Engineering from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2013. He is a senior research engineer at IKERLAN (Spain), where he coordinates the centre’s research activities in neuromorphic and AI hardware design, with a focus on applicability to industry customers. He also coordinates the Horizon Europe research project NimbleAI (nimbleai.eu), the SiliconBurmuin initiative in the Basque Country (bmh.gaia.es/neuromorphic), and the neuromorphic and AI technologies working group of the Spanish Association of Semiconductor Industry (aesemi.org/en/commissions). In 2014, he received a Marie Curie Fellowship to conduct research at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA) and Arm (UK), exploring techniques to enhance fault-tolerance in Arm Cortex-R CPUs and make them suitable for space use. From 2016 to 2018 Xabier was the Arm University Program EMEA manager, driving the company's technology outreach to the academic community and pre-competitive research organizations in the EMEA region to enable Arm-based education, research, and entrepreneurship. He has co-authored over 40 journal and conference papers and has 9 granted patents.