Alessandro Pierro

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I’m an AI Research Scientist within the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel, where we develop the Intel Loihi 2 accelerator. I’m also a CS PhD student at LMU Munich, advised by Prof. Eyke Hüllermeier at the Chair of AI and ML.

My research interests can be broadly grouped into:

  1. Hardware-software co-design for efficient ML
  2. Novel recurrent architectures
  3. LLMs and emerging capabilities

Feel free to reach me on at @lessandroPierro or by email at alessandropierro [at] duck [dot] com. Happy to jump on a call or grab a coffee.

If you are interested, here is my Curriculum Vitae.

News

  • July 2025: Release of SparseRNNs
    Our JAX codebase to train sparse and quantized SSMs has been released at IntelLabs/SparseRNNs.

  • July 2025: Invited talk at the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop
    I’m spending three weeks at the workshop in Telluride, CO. I’ll be presenting my work on SSMs and collaborate on bringing LLMs to neuromorphic chips.

  • May 2025: Paper accepted at ICML 2025
    Our work demonstrates unstructured sparsity (in both weights and activations) to enable more efficient inference for state space models at the edge. We validate this on an audio denoising task running in real-time on Intel Loihi 2.

  • May 2025: Started new role as AI Research Scientist at Intel

  • February 2025: Paper published on Nature Communications
    The work presents NeuroBench, a large community effort led by Jason to establish collaborative, fair, and representative benchmarks for neuromorphic computing. I was glad to contribute the benchmarking methodology and results from my M.Sc. thesis to the QUBO task in the system track.

  • February 2025: Invited talk at Loughborough University
    Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora invited me to present my work on Intel Loihi 2 at the Lindau seminar and toured me around their photonics lab, brainstorming applications of neuromorphic processors to high-frequency control.

  • October 2024: Invited talk at Ostfold University College
    Stefano Nichele invited me to present my work on Loihi 2 at the Neuromorphic Computing: Problems and Prospects workshop.

  • July 2024: Presented workshop paper accepted at ICML
    Steve and I attended ICML in Vienna and presented two workshop papers on quantization for S5 and Mamba.

  • May 2024: Invited talk at Glasgow University
    Giulia Marcucci invited me to present my work at the ABI Salon interdisciplinary seminar.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of my publications, you can refer to Google Scholar.