Smart Pixels

About

We are a group of physicists, engineers, and ASIC designers seeking to make the next-generation of AI-ingrained physics experiments. We meet every Tues. at 1 pm on zoom/at Fermilab (11th floor)

Recent Talks/Posters

• David Jiang, Smart Pixels: A Machine Learning Approach Towards Data Reduction in Next-Generation Particle Detectors, Poster presented at Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2024, Oct. 2024
• Jieun Yoo, Smart Pixels: Towards radiation hard ASIC with on-chip machine learning in 28nm CMOS, Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2024, Oct. 2024
• Benjamin Parpillon, Radiation-Hard Smart-Pixel Detector ASIC ReadOut with Digital AI in 28nm, poster presented at TWEPP 2024, Oct. 2024
• Jannicke Pearkes, Smartpixels with data reduction at the source, NGT workshop: hls4ml HEP Community Forum, Sept. 2024
• Jieun Yoo, Smart pixel sensors for the HL-LHC US Korea Conference (UKC) 2024, Aug. 2024
• Anthony Badea, Intelligent pixel detectors: towards a radiation hard ASIC with on-chip machine learning in 28nm CMOS, ICHEP, July 2024
• Jieun Yoo, Abhijith Gandrakota, Lindsey Gray, Morris Swartz, et. al, Smart Pixel Sensors for the HL-LHC, New Perspectives, July 2024
• Carissa N Kumar, Smart Pixels: Algorithm design and hardware testing for a 28m ROIC for future pixel trackers, APS April Meeting 2024
• Fermilab workshop on Dec. 12, 2023
• Jennet Dickinson, Rachel Kovach-Fuentes, Lindsey Gray, Morris Swartz, Guiseppe Di Guglielmo et al., Smartpixels: Towards on-sensor inference of charged particle track parameters and uncertainties Poster presented at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop: Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, Dec. 2023
• Benjamin Parpillon, Readout IC R&D for future Phase III High Luminosity Upgrade of the LHC, CPAD Workshop, Nov. 2023
• Jieun Yoo, Front-end neural network filtering implemented in a silicon pixel detector, CPAD Workshop, Nov. 2023
• Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Smart pixel sensors: towards on-sensor filtering of pixel clusters with deep learning, Fast Machine Learning for Science @ ICCAD, Nov. 2023
• Shruti R Kulkarni, Neuromorphic Computing for On-Sensor Data Filtering on Smart-Pixels, Fast Machine Learning for Science, Sept. 2023
• Rachel Kovach-Fuentes, Smartpixels: on-pixel featurization for single layer silicon tracking, Fast Machine Learning for Science, Sept. 2023
• Jennet Dickinson, Smart pixels with data reduction at source, Third MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, July 2023
• Jennet Dickinson and Lindsey Gray, Smart pixels for single-silicon-layer tracking with ML, International Workshop on Linear Colliders, May 2023
• Jennet Dickinson, On-chip intelligence and real-time data-processing, P5 Town Hall Meeting, April 2023
• Jennet Dickinson, Smart pixels with data reduction at source, CPAD Workshop 2022

Publications

• Jieun Yoo et al, Smart pixel sensors: towards on-sensor filtering of pixel clusters with deep learning Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 5 035047
• B. Parpillon, A. R. Trivedi and F. Fahim, "Readout IC with 40 MSPS in-pixel ADC for future vertex detector upgrades of Large Hadron Collider," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Monterey, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10182033.
• Shruti R. Kulkarni et al, "On-Sensor Data Filtering using Neuromorphic Computing for High Energy Physics Experiments", ICONS '23 Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems, Aug. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1145/3589737.3605976
• Narasinga Rao Miniskar et. al, "A 3D Implementation of Convolutional Neural Network for Fast Inference", 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

Other

Benjamin Parpillon et. al, Smart Pixels: In-pixel AI for on-sensor data filtering , arXiV, 2024

J. Dickinson et. al, Smartpixels: Towards on-sensor inference of charged particle track parameters and uncertainties , arXiv, 2023

Data

• Data on Zenodo: Smart pixel dataset

Code

• on smart-pix