Navid Anjum Aadit
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (present address); previously University of California, Santa Barbara
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Navid Anjum Aadit led the hardware work on two of the main FPGA p-bit machines. The first, published in Nature Electronics in 2022 with Kerem Camsari and co-authors, made an Ising machine sparse and graph coloured so that every p-bit of a colour updates in the same clock cycle. The authors reported up to six orders of magnitude over standard Gibbs sampling on a CPU, and they suggested the design could reach 1,000,000 or more p-bits with analogue silicon or nanodevices.
The second, posted in June 2026 as arXiv:2606.25313, reached that scale with FPGAs instead. It splits one Ising graph across 18 AMD VP1902 devices that exchange only 1-bit boundary states, and it shows that a single timing ratio decides whether the split machine samples as well as an unsplit one. The results are reviewed in Kerem Camsari’s one million p-bit FPGA computer.
He is covered here under the Builder position, for the machines. No view on consciousness is attributed to him.
Known for. First author of the sparse Ising machine on FPGAs (Nature Electronics, 2022) and of the programmable probabilistic computer with one million p-bits (arXiv 2606.25313, 2026)
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- Kerem CamsariDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa BarbaraThe p-bit, a binary unit that fluctuates at random under the control of its inputs, and probabilistic computers built from p-bits on FPGAs, including a networked machine with one million p-bits (arXiv 2606.25313, 2026)
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