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Taking Measure

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Advait Madhavan

Advait Madhavan is a University of Maryland assistant research scientist at NIST. He received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His interests lie in various brain-inspired approaches to computation.

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