Dr Olga Krestinskaya is a Lecturer in Engineering in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London. Her research focuses on hardware circuits and architectures for AI and intelligent systems, with the goal of sustaining their rapid growth while making them more efficient. In particular, she explores in-memory computing and software-hardware co-design to overcome the limitations of traditional computing architectures. She is also interested in brain-inspired and neuromorphic computing and emerging non-volatile memory technologies, which together aim to bridge the gap between biological intelligence and next-generation AI hardware.

Dr Krestinskaya received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and then worked there as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She also was a Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University, USA, and holds BEng and MSc degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

During her research career, she has received several awards, including the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Pre-Doctoral Award, recognition as a Rising Star in the Women in Engineering Workshop at the Asian Deans’ Forum, the Erasmus Student Mobility Scholarship, a Best Poster Award at the 2nd Nature Conference on Neuromorphic Computing, and the KAUST Dean’s Scholarship and Dean’s Awards.

Dr Krestinskaya is a Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society. She serves on technical programme committees of international conferences and as a reviewer for a range of IEEE, ACM and Springer Nature journals and conferences.

 

Research Interests

• In-memory computing circuits and architectures
• Software-hardware co-design for AI systems
• Brain-inspired and neuromorphic computing
• Electronic design automation (EDA) and optimisation tools for AI hardware
• Emerging non-volatile memory technologies

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