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June 9, 2023

Vellex Computing Co-Founder Named Cohort 2023 Fellow in Activate Berkeley

Dr. Palak Jain, CEO and co-founder of Vellex Computing, was announced as a Cohort 2023 Activate Fellow in the Activate Berkeley Community at Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road. Founded in 2015, the two-year Activate Fellowship provides support for entrepreneurial scientists to move their breakthrough technologies from ideas to scalable solutions.
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December 9, 2022

Vellex Computing Named as Semifinalist in the American-Made Solar Prize

Meghesh Saini
The American-Made Solar Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has selected 20 teams to advance as semifinalists in Round 6 of the prize, including Vellex Computing.
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OUR BLOGS

April 30, 2026

A Detailed Guide to Federated Learning on Edge Devices

Vedant Wakchaware
While on-device training secures user privacy, it unintentionally traps intelligence, forcing every edge device to learn the exact same lessons from scratch. How do we build a collaborative "hive mind" without exposing raw data to the cloud? The answer is Federated Learning. This comprehensive guide explores the decentralized paradigm of bringing the model to the data, detailing how devices evolve together by sharing abstract mathematical updates. Dive into the 5-step federated architecture loop and discover how cryptographic shields like Secure Aggregation and Differential Privacy prevent data extraction. Learn how advanced algorithms overcome severe bandwidth constraints and hardware disparities to power the next generation of secure, collective AI.
April 22, 2026

Decoding Weight Updates: How Edge AI Adapts Itself in Real-Time

Vedant Wakchaware
How does a disconnected smartwatch learn your unique music taste offline using just a fraction of the parameters found in massive cloud models? Step inside the mathematical core of on-device training as we decode the micro-weight update. This deep dive breaks down the exact sequence—from the initial Forward Pass and Loss Calculation to local Backpropagation—that enables edge hardware to dynamically adapt its logic in real-time. Discover how this highly targeted learning cleanly bypasses the SRAM memory wall, paving the way for truly autonomous, mathematically private, and incredibly efficient AI across all industries.
April 15, 2026

The Mechanics of On-Device Training: Hardware and Software Optimizations for the Edge

Vedant Wakchaware
Move beyond static AI inference. This comprehensive guide explores the mechanics of continuous on-device AI training, detailing how developers overcome severe hardware and memory bottlenecks. Discover how advanced software optimizations like sparse representations, layer-wise training, and federated learning allow edge devices to adapt, evolve, and learn locally in real-time, completely untethered from the cloud and without compromising user privacy.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

September, 2021

A Digital Twin Approach for Fault Diagnosis in Distributed Photovoltaic Systems

Palak Jain; Jason Poon; Jai Prakash Singh; Costas Spanos; Seth R. Sanders; Sanjib Kumar Panda
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ( Volume: 35, Issue: 1, January 2020)
August, 2021

Model-Based Fault Detection and Identification for Switching Power Converters

Jason Poon; Palak Jain; Ioannis C. K.; Costas Spanos; Sanjib K. Panda; Seth R. Sanders
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ( Volume: 32, Issue: 2, February 2017)