Expanding The Role of Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics in the New AI Era
Thursday, November 30, 2023
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Building 16, Room 2206
Abstract
Integrated photonics technology, particularly silicon-based photonics, is a disruptive technology that has reshaped the landscape of optical communications in the past ten years. Combining silicon with other functioning photonic materials, such as compound semiconductors, through heterogeneous integration amounts to more than just the complementary merits of the different material systems combined. As the world is embracing a new AI era, heterogeneous integrated photonics with broader versatility have the potential to have an enormous impact on the field of communications and computing in AI clusters. I will attempt to elaborate on this with examples of heterogeneous integration-enabled key photonic devices, densely integrated photonic circuits, new functionalities and emerging applications
About the speaker
Di Liang is currently a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to his current position, he was a director/senior staff engineer in the Alibaba Group, U.S., for two years. He was also a distinguished technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he led the advanced research and development of silicon and compound semiconductor integrated photonics for energy-efficient optical interconnects and high-performance computing, among other emerging applications. He received his bachelor’s degree in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, and his master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, U.S. He has authored and co-authored one edited book, seven book chapters, and over 270 journal and conference papers, and he has been granted more than 50 patents, with another 55+ pending. He is a Fellow of Optica (former OSA), and associate editor of Optica: Photonics Research and IEEE: Journal of Quantum Electronics.
For any questions, please contact Prof. Sahika Inal and Prof. Yating Wan.
