Biography:
Luping Shi is a professor, director of the optical memory national engineering research center,founding director of center for brain inspired computing research (CBICR), at Tsinghua university (THU), China. He received his Ph.D from Cologne university, Germany in 1992. He is an International institute of cognitive information and cognitive computing (I2CICC) fellow and a Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) fellow. Chairman of the Brain-Inspired Intelligence Industry Innovation Alliance. His research interests include brain-inspired computing, perception and intelligence, brain-inspired smart medicine, information storage, and intelligent instrumentation. He proposed a hybrid architecture for brain-inspired computing and led the development of "Tianjic," the world's first hybrid, integrated storage-and-computing brain-inspired chip. Furthermore, he introduced a primitive-based paradigm for brain-inspired perception and led the creation of "Tianmouc," the world's first primitive-based complementary visual chip. The research results for "Tianjic" and "Tianmouc" were published as cover articles in Nature in 2019 and 2024, respectively, and were both selected by academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering as one of China's Top Ten S&T Advances for their respective years. The resulting products have been applied in key fields such as brain simulation, smart medicine, digital brains, and smart cities, pioneering the global deployment and practical application of brain-inspired computing technologies. He has been awarded honors including the National Innovation and Pioneer Award, the Zu Chongzhi Prize, and the First‑class Beijing Natural Science Award.
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