Hesham Mostafa

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Hesham Mostafa is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Hesham Mostafa has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Hesham Mostafa's work include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (14 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers) and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (5 papers). Hesham Mostafa is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (14 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers) and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (5 papers). Hesham Mostafa collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Egypt. Hesham Mostafa's co-authors include Emre Neftci, Friedemann Zenke, Giacomo Indiveri, Federico Corradi, Fabio Stefanini, Marc Osswald, Ning Qiao, Jacques Kaiser, Ricardo Tapiador-Morales and Xin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Journal of Physics D Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Hesham Mostafa

21 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Surrogate Gradient Learning in Spiking Neural Networks: Bringing the Power of Gradient-Based Optimization to Spiking Neural Networks

2019 773 citations Emre Neftci, Hesham Mostafa et al. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine profile →
A reconfigurable on-line learning spiking neuromorphic processor comprising 256 neurons and 128K synapses

2015 469 citations Ning Qiao, Hesham Mostafa et al. Frontiers in Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hesham Mostafa Switzerland	12	1.8k	1.1k	780	517	221	27	2.1k
Yujie Wu China	17	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	864 1.1×	443 0.9×	138 0.6×	36	2.4k
Carmelo di Nolfo United States	8	2.6k 1.4×	673 0.6×	844 1.1×	744 1.4×	232 1.0×	10	2.9k
Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh Iran	12	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	673 0.9×	345 0.7×	129 0.6×	27	1.8k
Pallab Datta United States	6	1.7k 0.9×	677 0.6×	698 0.9×	471 0.9×	177 0.8×	6	1.9k
Garrick Orchard Singapore	19	2.0k 1.1×	963 0.9×	666 0.9×	430 0.8×	483 2.2×	45	2.5k
Federico Corradi Netherlands	20	1.4k 0.8×	678 0.6×	471 0.6×	550 1.1×	233 1.1×	56	1.8k
Emre Neftci United States	22	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	584 1.1×	110 0.5×	74	2.7k
Jeffrey L. McKinstry United States	10	924 0.5×	530 0.5×	450 0.6×	231 0.4×	209 0.9×	17	1.2k
Rathinakumar Appuswamy United States	8	3.3k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 2.3×	239 1.1×	13	3.6k
Gregory Cohen Australia	14	899 0.5×	498 0.5×	923 1.2×	230 0.4×	351 1.6×	39	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hesham Mostafa

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El‐kenawy, El‐Sayed M., et al.. (2025). Renewable energy forecasting using optimized quantum temporal model based on Ninja optimization algorithm. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 14714–14714. 3 indexed citations

El‐kenawy, El‐Sayed M., et al.. (2025). Machine Learning Models with Statistical Analysis Techniques for ForecastingWind Turbines Scada Systems Measurement. Fusion Practice and Applications. 19(2). 64–81.

Alhussan, Amel Ali, et al.. (2025). Enhancing green hydrogen forecasting with a spatio-temporal graph convolutional network optimized by the Ninja algorithm. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 39012–39012.

Hu, Jiang, et al.. (2024). MinBLoG: Minimization of Boolean Logic Functions using Graph Attention Network. 1–8.

Mostafa, Hesham, et al.. (2024). AI Alone isn't Ready for Chip Design: A Combination of Classical Search and Machine Learning May be the Way Forward. IEEE Spectrum. 61(12). 38–43.

Mostafa, Hesham, et al.. (2024). FloorSet - a VLSI Floorplanning Dataset with Design Constraints of Real-World SOCs.. 1–9. 1 indexed citations

Mostafa, Hesham, et al.. (2023). Exploiting Long-Term Dependencies for Generating Dynamic Scene Graphs. 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 5119–5128. 9 indexed citations

Mostafa, Hesham, et al.. (2021). GG-Net: Gaze Guided Network for Self-driving Cars. Electronic Imaging. 33(17). 171–1.

Kaiser, Jacques, Hesham Mostafa, & Emre Neftci. (2020). Synaptic Plasticity Dynamics for Deep Continuous Local Learning (DECOLLE). Frontiers in Neuroscience. 14. 424–424. 179 indexed citations

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Neftci, Emre, Hesham Mostafa, & Friedemann Zenke. (2019). Surrogate Gradient Learning in Spiking Neural Networks: Bringing the Power of Gradient-Based Optimization to Spiking Neural Networks. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 36(6). 51–63. 773 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kaiser, Jacques, Hesham Mostafa, & Emre Neftci. (2018). Synaptic Plasticity Dynamics for Deep Continuous Local Learning.. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Hesham, Antonio Ríos-Navarro, Ricardo Tapiador-Morales, et al.. (2018). NullHop: A Flexible Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator Based on Sparse Representations of Feature Maps. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 30(3). 644–656. 205 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Hesham. (2017). Supervised Learning Based on Temporal Coding in Spiking Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 29(7). 1–9. 243 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Hesham, Christian Mayr, & Giacomo Indiveri. (2016). Beyond spike-timing dependent plasticity in memristor crossbar arrays. 9. 926–929. 11 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Hesham, Ali Khiat, Alexander Serb, et al.. (2015). Implementation of a spike-based perceptron learning rule using TiO2−x memristors. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9. 357–357. 27 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Hesham, Lorenz K. Müller, & Giacomo Indiveri. (2015). An event-based architecture for solving constraint satisfaction problems. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8941–8941. 42 indexed citations

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Qiao, Ning, Hesham Mostafa, Federico Corradi, et al.. (2015). A reconfigurable on-line learning spiking neuromorphic processor comprising 256 neurons and 128K synapses. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9. 141–141. 469 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mostafa, Hesham, Federico Corradi, Fabio Stefanini, & Giacomo Indiveri. (2014). A hybrid analog/digital Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity learning circuit for neuromorphic VLSI multi-neuron architectures. 20. 854–857. 12 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Hesham & Giacomo Indiveri. (2014). Sequential Activity in Asymmetrically Coupled Winner-Take-All Circuits. Neural Computation. 26(9). 1973–2004. 8 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Hesham, Federico Corradi, Marc Osswald, & Giacomo Indiveri. (2013). Automated synthesis of asynchronous event-based interfaces for neuromorphic systems. 47. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

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