> Assel Kembay
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Intro

I am a PhD student in the Neuromorphic Computing Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz, supervised by Prof. Jason Eshraghian. Prior to joining UCSC, I received my M.S. degree from Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in 2023.

My research focuses on developing lifelong adaptability in AI systems in dynamic real-world environments. I have been approaching this by developing new techniques in knowledge distillation through space and time, and continual learning.

My recent research interest includes the following topics:

  • Continual Learning

  • News

    02. 2026 [Award] Awarded the UCSC Baskin Engineering Dean's Travel Grant.
    01. 2026 [Publication] Efficient Knowledge Distillation via Salient Feature Masking accepted at APL Machine Learning.
    09. 2025 [Publication] Future-Guided Learning – A predictive approach to enhance time-series forecasting published in Nature Communications.
    05. 2025 [Award] Awarded the 2025 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference (ILC) Student Scholarship.
    04. 2025 [Fellowship] Selected as a Young Fellow at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025.
    01. 2025 [Publication] One paper accepted at ISCAS 2025.
    10. 2024 [Preprint] New preprint released: Future-Guided Learning.
    10. 2024 [Publication] One paper accepted at BayLearn 2024.
    09. 2023 [Joining] Joined Neuromorphic Computing Group at UCSC, supervised by Prof. Jason Eshraghian!
    01. 2023 [Award] Won the 2023 POSCO Asia Fellowship: POSCO TJ Park Foundation, South Korea.

    Recent Preprints