10/07/2026
Meet Dr. Pavia Bera, our newest Assistant Professor in CPE!
She works at the intersection of neuromorphic algorithms and hardware, designing brain-inspired algorithms and spintronic memory hardware to run them efficiently. Her work includes SPIMulator, a spintronic processing-in-memory simulator, and research on sparse neural networks and hardware-accelerated HTM systems.
Dr. Bera is an iREDEFINE Professional Development Award recipient and an NSF CyberTraining participant, with publications in IEEE, ACM TECS, and Neurocomputing.
Cal Poly's "Learn by Doing" philosophy and its emphasis on teaching alongside research drew her to Cal Poly. She says SLO is a nice bonus after years in Tampa! Outside of research, Dr. Bera stays active with regular workouts, and is a devoted cat parent to her two cats, Sheriff and Shane, who've settled into life in SLO with her.
She will be teaching CPE 3300 (Computer Architecture) and CPE 2300 (Computer Systems), and is excited about a new course she's been developing on efficient and scalable machine learning systems — bringing her hardware-aware ML research directly into the classroom.
