Learning Event-based Spatio-Temporal Feature Descriptors via Local Synaptic Plasticity: A Biologically-realistic Perspective of Computer Vision. - Ali Safa; Hichem Sahli; André Bourdoux; Ilja Ocket; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (CoRR, 2021)

ConvSNN: A surrogate gradient spiking neural framework for radar gesture recognition. - Ali Safa; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (Softw. Impacts, 2021)

A Low-Complexity Radar Detector Outperforming OS-CFAR for Indoor Drone Obstacle Avoidance. - Ali Safa; Tim Verbelen; Lars Keuninckx; Ilja Ocket; Matthias Hartmann; André Bourdoux; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens., 2021)

Power-Efficient and Accurate Texture Sensing Using Spiking Readouts for High-Density e-Skins. - Mark Daniel Alea; Ali Safa; Jonah Van Assche; Georges G. E. Gielen (BioCAS, 2022)

Exploring Cross-fusion and Curriculum Learning for Multi-modal Human Detection on Drones. - Ali Safa; Ilja Ocket; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (DroneSE/RAPIDO@HiPEAC, 2022)

Event Camera Data Classification Using Spiking Networks with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity. - Ali Safa; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Hichem Sahli; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (IJCNN, 2022)

Learning to Encode Vision on the Fly in Unknown Environments: A Continual Learning SLAM Approach for Drones. - Ali Safa; Tim Verbelen; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Hichem Sahli; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (SSRR, 2022)

Continuously Learning to Detect People on the Fly: A Bio-inspired Visual System for Drones. - Ali Safa; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Hichem Sahli; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (CoRR, 2022)

Learning to SLAM on the Fly in Unknown Environments: A Continual Learning Approach for Drones in Visually Ambiguous Scenes. - Ali Safa; Tim Verbelen; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Hichem Sahli; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (CoRR, 2022)

Neuromorphic Near-Sensor Computing: From Event-Based Sensing to Edge Learning. - Ali Safa; Jonah Van Assche; Mark Daniel Alea; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (IEEE Micro, 2022)

Fail-Safe Human Detection for Drones Using a Multi-Modal Curriculum Learning Approach. - Ali Safa; Tim Verbelen; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022)

Fusing Event-based Camera and Radar for SLAM Using Spiking Neural Networks with Continual STDP Learning. - Ali Safa; Tim Verbelen; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Hichem Sahli; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (ICRA, 2023)

Open the box of digital neuromorphic processor: Towards effective algorithm-hardware co-design. - Guangzhi Tang; Ali Safa; Kevin Shidqi; Paul Detterer; Stefano Traferro; Mario Konijnenburg; Manolis Sifalakis; Gert-Jan van Schaik; Amirreza Yousefzadeh (ISCAS, 2023)

Active Inference in Hebbian Learning Networks. - Ali Safa; Tim Verbelen; Lars Keuninckx; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen; Gert Cauwenberghs (IWAI, 2023)

Exploring Information-Theoretic Criteria to Accelerate the Tuning of Neuromorphic Level-Crossing ADCs. - Ali Safa; Jonah Van Assche; Charlotte Frenkel; André Bourdoux; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (NICE, 2023)

SupportHDC: Hyperdimensional Computing with Scalable Hypervector Sparsity. - Ali Safa; Ilja Ocket; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (NICE, 2023)

A Fingertip-Mimicking 12×16 200μm-Resolution e-skin Taxel Readout Chip with per-Taxel Spiking Readout and Embedded Receptive Field Processing. - Mark Daniel Alea; Ali Safa; Flavio Giacomozzi; Andrea Adami; Inci Rüya Temel; Leandro Lorenzelli; Georges G. E. Gielen (VLSI Technology and Circuits, 2023)

FMCW Radar Sensing for Indoor Drones Using Learned Representations. - Ali Safa; Tim Verbelen; Ozan Çatal; Toon Van de Maele; Matthias Hartmann; Bart Dhoedt; André Bourdoux (CoRR, 2023)

Improving the Accuracy of Spiking Neural Networks for Radar Gesture Recognition Through Preprocessing. - Ali Safa; Federico Corradi; Lars Keuninckx; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., 2023)

Resource-Efficient Gesture Recognition Using Low-Resolution Thermal Camera via Spiking Neural Networks and Sparse Segmentation. - Ali Safa; Wout Mommen; Piet Wambacq; Lars Keuninckx (FG, 2024)

Automating the Design of Multi-Band Microstrip Antennas via Uniform Cross-Entropy Optimization. - Ali Al-Zawqari; Ali Safa; Gerd Vandersteen (ICM, 2024)

Co-Design of a Robot Controller Board and Indoor Positioning System for IoT-Enabled Applications. - Ali Safa; Ali Al-Zawqari (ICM, 2024)

Towards Chip-in-the-loop Spiking Neural Network Training via Metropolis-Hastings Sampling. - Ali Safa; Vikrant Jaltare; Samira Sebt; Kameron Gano; Johannes Leugering; Georges G. E. Gielen; Gert Cauwenberghs (NICE, 2024)

Resource-Efficient Gesture Recognition using Low-Resolution Thermal Camera via Spiking Neural Networks and Sparse Segmentation. - Ali Safa; Wout Mommen; Lars Keuninckx (CoRR, 2024)

Continual Learning in Bio-plausible Spiking Neural Networks with Hebbian and Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity: A Survey and Perspective. - Ali Safa (CoRR, 2024)

Rotational Odometry using Ultra Low Resolution Thermal Cameras. - Ali Safa (CoRR, 2024)

Continual learning with hebbian plasticity in sparse and predictive coding networks: a survey and perspective. - Ali Safa (Neuromorph. Comput. Eng., 2024)

STDP-Driven Development of Attention-Based People Detection in Spiking Neural Networks. - Ali Safa; Ilja Ocket; André Bourdoux; Hichem Sahli; Francky Catthoor; Georges G. E. Gielen (IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst., 2024)

A Fingertip-Mimicking 12$ times$16 200 $ mu$m-Resolution e-Skin Taxel Readout Chip With Per-Taxel Spiking Readout and Embedded Receptive Field Processing. - Mark Daniel Alea; Ali Safa; Flavio Giacomozzi; Andrea Adami; Inci Rüya Temel; Maria Atalaia Rosa; Leandro Lorenzelli; Georges G. E. Gielen (IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits Syst., 2024)

FMCW Radar for Human Detection in Collapsed Structures for Post-Disaster Search and Rescue. - Mostafa Abdelhamid; Ali Safa; Loay Ismail; Amr Mohamed 001 (IWCMC, 2025)

Federated Learning of Low-Rank One-Shot Image Detection Models in Edge Devices with Scalable Accuracy and Compute Complexity. - Abdul Hannaan; Zubair Shah; Aiman Erbad; Amr Mohamed 001; Ali Safa (IWCMC, 2025)

Neural Classification of Argument Elements and Styles in Arabic Competitive Debates. - Ali Al-Zawqari; Mohamed Ahmed; Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi; Mohammad Majed Khader; Ali Safa; Gerd Vandersteen (IEEE Access, 2025)

Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications. - Ali Safa; Waqas Aman; Ali Al-Zawqari; Saif Al-Kuwari (CoRR, 2025)

FREYA: A 0.023-mm²/Channel, 20.8- μW/Channel, Event-Driven 8-Channel SoC for Spiking End-to-End Sensing of Time-Sparse Biosignals. - Jonah Van Assche; Charlotte Frenkel; Ali Safa; Georges G. E. Gielen (IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap., 2025)

Deep Fusion of Ultra-Low-Resolution Thermal Camera and Gyroscope Data for Lighting-Robust and Compute-Efficient Rotational Odometry. - Farida Mohsen; Ali Safa (CoRR, 2025)

On the Importance of Neural Membrane Potential Leakage for LIDAR-based Robot Obstacle Avoidance using Spiking Neural Networks. - Zainab Ali; Lujayn Al-Amir; Ali Safa (CoRR, 2025)

Learning to Control Dynamical Agents via Spiking Neural Networks and Metropolis-Hastings Sampling. - Ali Safa; Farida Mohsen; Ali Al-Zawqari (CoRR, 2025)

A Novel Monte-Carlo Compressed Sensing and Dictionary Learning Method for the Efficient Path Planning of Remote Sensing Robots. - Alghalya Al-Hajri; Ejmen Al-Ubejdij; Aiman Erbad; Ali Safa (CoRR, 2025)

MINT-RVAE: Multi-Cues Intention Prediction of Human-Robot Interaction using Human Pose and Emotion Information from RGB-only Camera Data. - Farida Mohsen; Ali Safa (CoRR, 2025)

On training networks of monostable multivibrator timer neurons. - Lars Keuninckx; Matthias Hartmann; Paul Detterer; Ali Safa; Wout Mommen; Ilja Ocket (Neural Networks, 2026)