Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics: Inference and Training, Classical and Quantum
This webinar is hosted By: Optics in Digital Systems Technical Group
23 February 2023 9:00 - 10:00
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)Artificial intelligence powered by neural networks has enabled applications in many fields (medicine, finance, autonomous vehicles). Digital implementations of neural networks are limited in speed and energy efficiency. Neuromorphic photonics aims to build processors that use light and photonic device physics to mimic neurons and synapses in the brain for distributed and parallel processing while offering sub-nanosecond latencies and extending the domain of artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing applications.
In this webinar hosted by the Optics in Digital Systems Technical Group, Bhavin Shastri will discuss the on-chip training of photonic neural networks enabled by a CMOS-compatible silicon photonic architecture. Prof. Shastri will highlight applications that require low latency and high bandwidth, including wideband radio-frequency signal processing, fiber-optic communications, and nonlinear programming (solving optimization problems). Prof. Shastri will also briefly introduce a quantum photonic neural network that can learn to act as near-perfect components of quantum technologies and discuss the role of weak nonlinearities.
What You Will Learn:
• Photonic integrated circuits
• Photonic neural networks and applications
• Quantum photonic neural networks
Who Should Attend:
• Students
• Researchers (Professors and Postdocs)
• Industry
About the Presenter: Bhavin J. Shastri from Queen’s University
Prof. Bhavin J. Shastri is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Physics at Queen’s University and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute. Shastri was an Associate Research Scholar (2016-2018) and Banting and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2016) at Princeton University. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (photonics) from McGill University in 2012. He is a co-author of the book Neuromorphic Photonics, a term he helped coin. Dr. Shastri is the recipient of the 2022 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award and the 2020 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics "for his pioneering contributions to neuromorphic photonics" from the ICO. He is a Senior Member of Optica and IEEE.
