Here is a summary of my academic publications. You may also find new articles in my Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar profiles.

Publications

  • [In review] Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Palhares, J., Begon-Lours, L., Florini, D., Falcone, D., Stecconi, T., Bragaglia, V., Offrein, B., Portal, J.-M., Querlioz, D., Beilliard, Y., Drouin, D., Alibart, F. Unsupervised Local Learning Based on Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity for Resistive and Ferroelectric Synapses. (2024) https://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5295706/v1

  • Balafrej, I., Dahmane, M. Enhancing Practicality and Efficiency of Deepfake Detection. Scientific Reports. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82223-y.

  • Balafrej, I., Janzakova, K., Kumar, A., Garg, N., Scholaert, C., Rouat, J., Drouin, D., Coffinier, Y., Pecqueur, S., and Alibart, F. Structural Plasticity for Neuromorphic Networks with Electropolymerized Dendritic PEDOT Connections. Nature Communications. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43887-8

  • [In review] Balafrej, I., Alibart, F. & Rouat, J. Expanding memory in recurrent spiking networks (2023) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.19067

  • Goupy, G., Juneau-Fecteau, A., Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Alibart, F., Frechette, L., Drouin, D., Beilliard, Y. Unsupervised and efficient learning in sparsely activated convolutional spiking neural networks enabled by voltage-dependent synaptic plasticity. Neuromorph. Comput. Eng. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/acad98

  • Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Stewart C. T., Portal, JM. Bocquet, M., Querlioz, D., Drouin, D., Rouat, J., Beillard, Y., Alibart, F. Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential. Frontiers in Neuroscience (2022) https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.983950.

  • Balafrej, I., Alibart, F. & Rouat, J. P-CRITICAL: a reservoir autoregulation plasticity rule for neuromorphic hardware. Neuromorph. Comput. Eng. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/ac6533.

  • Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Beilliard, Y., Drouin, D., Alibart, F., and Rouat, R. Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing and EMG Hand Gesture Recognition. International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2021, 1–8. ICONS 2021 29. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477145.3477267.

  • Celotti L., Balafrej, I., Calvet, E. Improving Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search with Parameters Scoring (2020).

Presentations

  • Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Beilliard, Y., Drouin, D., Alibart, F., Rouat. Unsupervised Learning with Ferroelectric Synapses. IEEE 52nd European Solid-State Device Research Conference (2022).

  • Balafrej, I., Alibart, F. Rouat, J. Neuromorphic Reservoirs for Energy-Efficient Task-Abstract Machine Learning Devices. Neural Interfaces and Systems Symposium (2021).

  • Balafrej, I. Building hardware-friendly models for neuromorphic engineering. Workshop at the University of Montreal (2021).

  • Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Beilliard, Y., Drouin, D., Alibart, F., and Rouat, R. Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing and EMG Hand Gesture Recognition. International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2021, 1–8. ICONS 2021 29. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477145.3477267.

  • Balafrej, I., Rouat, J. P-CRITICAL: A Reservoir Autoregulation Plasticity Rule Designed for Loihi. Intel Neuromorphic Research Community Forum (2020).

  • Balafrej, I. Machine learning on neuromorphic processors. 88e Congrès de l’Acfas. (CANCELED - COVID, 2020)

  • Balafrej, I. Auto-regulation of Reservoirs with Potential Physiological Signal Monitoring. UNIQUE Symposium (2020)

  • Balafrej, I., Rouat, J. Running the CRITICAL Plasticity Rule for Loihi. 3rd Intel Neuromorphic Research Community Workshop, Austria (2019).

  • Tremblay, J.P., Balafrej, I., Labelle, F., Martel-Denis, F., Matte, É., Chouinard-Beaupré, J., Létourneau, A., Mercier-Nicol, A., Brodeur, S., Ferland, F., Rouat, J. A Cooperative Visually Grounded Dialogue Game with a Humanoid Robot. (2018). Demonstration track, Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Abstract