PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Christof Teuscher

Christof Teuscher is a computer scientist whose research connects artificial intelligence with biologically inspired and unconventional computing. After training as a Swiss electronics apprentice, he earned computer science degrees at EPFL and published a 2002 book on Alan Turing’s neural network architectures. A 2002 paper with three colleagues describes the BioWall; he received the 2004 Cor Baayen Award and held research posts at UC San Diego and Los Alamos, joining LANL’s technical staff in 2007. As of October 2026, he is a professor at Portland State University and leads a lab working on AI accelerators and brain-inspired computers; the lab’s 2026 course covers hardware for AI and machine learning.

Works
229
Citations
3,121
h-index
28
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2000–2004

    Degrees in computer science

    After training as a Swiss electronics apprentice, he earns an M.Sc. in 2000 and a Ph.D. in 2004 in computer science at EPFL.

  2. 2002

    A book on Turing's networks

    In 2002, he publishes Turing's Connectionism: An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures, which analyzes Turing's unorganized machines and uses genetic algorithms to build and train them.

  3. 2002

    The BioWall computing tissue

    A 2002 paper by Teuscher and three colleagues describes the BioWall as a giant reconfigurable computing tissue developed to implement machines in the Embryonics project.

  4. 2004

    The Cor Baayen Award

    ERCIM presents him with the 2004 Cor Baayen Award for research on unconventional biologically inspired machines.

  5. 2004–2007

    UCSD and Los Alamos

    In 2004, he becomes a postdoctoral researcher at UCSD; in 2005, he joins Los Alamos National Laboratory as a distinguished Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, and in 2007, he becomes a Technical Staff Member there.

  6. As of October 2026

    Professor at Portland State

    He is a professor at Portland State University and heads his research lab, whose work includes AI accelerators and brain-inspired computers. In February 2026, he announces the lab's ECE 410/510 course on AI and machine learning hardware, covering CNNs, DNNs, transformer-based LLMs, and neuromorphic processors.

Career

  1. Since 2002Portland State UniversityProfessor
  2. 2005–2007Triad National SecurityDistinguished Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Technical Staff Member
  3. 2004–2005University of California, San DiegoPostdoctoral researcher

Education

  1. 2004EPFLPh.D.
  2. 2000EPFLM.Sc.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Scalable Hybrid Wireless Network-on-Chip Architectures for Multicore Systems2010 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 300 citations
  2. Reconfigurable perovskite nickelate electronics for artificial intelligence2022 · Science · 240 citations
  3. Gaze following: why (not) learn it?2006 · Developmental Science · 221 citations
  4. Memristor-based reservoir computing2012 · IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH) · 157 citations
  5. Spoken Digit Classification by In-Materio Reservoir Computing With Neuromorphic Atomic Switch Networks2021 · Frontiers in Nanotechnology · 84 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes Portland State University. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  2. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labsIncludes EPFL. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes EPFL. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  4. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of California, San Diego. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and employment links for major-prize and best-paper winners.

Colleagues

People named in this biography, and people with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Christof Teuscher | Portland State University pdx.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Beyond Silicon: A Computer Engineer's Quest for Future Technologies pdx.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. [ Christof Teuscher ] - Turing's Connectionism teuscher.ch. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Le Bio Wall : Un Tissue Informatique pour le Prototypage de Systèmes Bio-Inspirés pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Christof Teuscher Winner of the Cor Baayen Award 2004 ercim.eu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. teuscher.:Lab | Next Generation Computing Models and Architectures teuscher-lab.com. Checked 19 October 2026.