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Group News:

12/09/2024: Prof. Yoo leads UC Davis part of $285 Million CHIPS Semiconductor Research Institute
12/5/2024: Mingye defends his PhD dissertation titled “Future Integrated Silicon Photonic System-on-Chip for High Performance Computing” !! Congratulations !!
11/30/2024: Mehmet completes his PhD thesis titled “Optics Enable Future Neuromorphic Computing and Distributed Quantum Computing” and goes onto his new position at HP Enterprise !! Congratulations !!
11/17/2024: Marjan’s paper titled “NOVA: A Novel Vertex Management Architecture For Scalable Graph Processing” accepted for International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2025
11/15/2024: Mehmet et al’s IEEE/Optical Journal of Lightwave Technology Paper on Scalable Photonic Computing published
11/03/2024: Mahmoud is the lead author on the IEEE Photonics Conference paper titled “Microring Resonator Based Photonic Circuits as Limited Precision Differential Equation Solvers“
11/02/2024: Yun-Jhu presents his IEEE Photonics Conference paper titled: “Design of sub-10 nm Programmable Optoelectronic Spiking Neuron with Advanced Process Design Kit“
9/13/2024: Prof. Yoo to lead a new $21M project on Energy-Efficient and Scalable , and Self-learning AI Hardware with 3D Electronic-Photonic-Integrated-Circuits.
9/3/2024: Yun-Jhu completes and defends his PhD Dissertation titled “Monolithic Optoelectronic Artificial Intelligence Neuromorphic Computing Hardware” !! Congratulations !!
6/2/2024: Prof. Yoo leads UC Davis part of new Northwest-AI Hub
5/7/2024: Our group presented four CLEO 2024 papers including (a) an invited symposium paper on 3D Photonics paper, (b) Humphry’s incoherent heterodyne imager paper, (c) Yichi’s 3D photonic imager paper, and (d) Mehmet’s Quantum Wrapper Network Packet switching paper.
4/17/2024: Luis’ Perspective: An optoelectronic future for heterogeneous dendritic computing paper published!
3/24/2024: Our group presented five OFC 2024 papers including (a) Mingye’s nano photodetectors paper, (b) Yun-jhu’s neural heterogeneity paper, (c) Ikhyeon’s 3T-TRAM on 45SPCLO paper, (d) Yi-Chun’s 3D AWG paper, (e) Luis’ local learning photonic neural network paper.
3/8/2024: Our Reverse-Engineering the Brain perspective paper on line. Congratulations!
2/22/2024: Yun-Jhu’s programmable heterogeneous photonic neural network JLT paper published. Congratulations!
2/5/2024: Our Quantum Wrapper Networking Packet switching Experimental JLT Paper Published !! Congratulations !!
2/5/2024: Mehmet’s Experimental Datagram switching on Quantum Wrapper Network JLT Paper published. Congratulations!
1/20/2024: Mehmet On’s Programmable Integrated Photonics’ Nature Communications Paper Published!! Congratulations !!
1/8/2024: Our Team’s Quantum Wrapper Networking IEEE Com Mag Paper published!! Congratulations!!
1/1/2024: Yichi Zhang’s optical interposer Opex Paper Published!! Congratulations!!
12/13/2023: Yi-Chun Ling completes her Ph.D. !! Congratulations !!!
12/12/2023: Yiting Jin passes her PhD Qualifying Exam !! Congratulations!!
11/29/2023: Our Team wins $5.9M Photonic Computing Project from DARPA !! Congratulations Team !!
11/28/2023: Yichi Zhang completes her Ph.D. !! Congratulations !!!
10/18/2023: Marjan Fariborz completes her Ph.D. !! Congratulations !!!
10/3/2023 Yi-Chun Ling’s Review : tunable Nanophotonic Metastructures paper published!! Congratulations !!

JUMP 2.0: Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronics Systems

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors S. J. Ben Yoo and Q. Jane Gu were announced as members of the JointContinue Reading

A New 5-year ExPlor Project to Pursue 3D Neuromorphic Computing Studies

UC Davis is leading a new 5-year project titled Expedition on Brain-Derived Neuromorphic Computing with Intelligent Photonic and Electronic MaterialsContinue Reading

3D Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits for Future AI and Neuromorphic Computing (3D-EPIC-FAINCING)

Distinguished Professor S. J. Ben Yoo (Electrical and Computer Engineering) wins a new project from iARPA to pursue silicon electronicContinue Reading

Quantum Wrapper Networking for Entanglement Management and Control in Transparent Optical Quantum Networks

Quantum computing and quantum information science (QIS) promise unprecedented capabilities unavailable in their classical counterparts. The prospect of a quantumContinue Reading

New Research Center: Integrated Photonics for Data Center Interconnect

Today’s data centers are consuming megawatts of power, and the accelerating trend of exponential growth in data center traffic isContinue Reading

PROWESS: Phase-change Reconfigurable Optical WavEfront Synthesis System

DoE Phase II Distinguished Professor S. J. Ben Yoo (Electrical and Computer Engineering) wins a new team project led byContinue Reading

Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Silicon Photonics

Technology Overview Silicon photonics is a transformative enabling technology that brings parallelism, high throughput, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness to computing. Continue Reading

Evolutionary Transfer Learning with Bio-inspired Cognitive Agents

Overview The rapid growth of emerging network applications and their stringent quality-of-service requirements are driving today’s backbone networks to evolveContinue Reading

Computing and Networking Testbeds

Overview The NGNS group at UC Davis has a long history of successful development of advanced testbed demonstrators for datacomContinue Reading

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