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Melika Payvand is a research scientist at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2012 and 2016 respectively. Her research activities is in exploiting the physics of the computational substrate for online learning and sensory processing. Specifically, she is interested in using the inherent properties of the emergent technologies to design the next generation of event-based adaptive neuromorphic processors. She is part of the organizing committee of the Capocaccia workshop for neuromorphic intelligence, is serving as a technical member of Neural Systems, Applications and Technologies in Circuits and System society and as a technical program committee for International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). She is a guest editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience and is the winner of the best neuromorph award of the 2019 Telluride neuromorphic workshop.