2nd Workshop on “Neuromorphic photonics and applications”

University of West Attica, 13th and 14th of July 2023

Brain inspired computing and its implementation at high throughput and low power consumption is the holy grail of the digital transition era. State of the art conventional computers face significant difficulties in keeping up with the exponentially growing amount of complex artificial intelligence tasks accompanied by vast amounts of data. Neuromorphic processors and especially their photonic implementation gain ground as promising accelerators for low latency, high bandwidth and low energy intelligent computing.

Following the first successful workshop on Neuromorphic Photonics , the 2nd workshop on “Neuromorphic photonics and applications” is organized by three EU funded projects (NEoteRIC H2020PROMETHEUS Horizon EuropePlasmoniAC H2020) and its goal is to bring together all research groups around the globe that are currently active in neuromorphic photonics. The workshop will be a 2-day event. All speakers are researchers representing significant groups in the field and will cover the subject in different aspects presenting the latest achievements in the fields of neuromorphic photonic engineering and optical neural networks.

Speakers

A team of renowned experts from academia and industry will present the latest achievements in the rapidly evolving field of neuromorphic photonics and significant applications of neuromorphic technology in Artificial Intelligence

Confirmed up to date

Lorenzo Pavesi, University of Trento
Jose Capmany, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, iPronics Programmable Photonics
Francesco Da Ros, Technical University of Denmark
Miguel Cornelles Soriano, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Antonio Hurtado, University of Strathclyde
Daniel Brunner, CNRS, FEMTO-ST, Optics department, Besancon
Bin Shi, Eindhoven University of Technology
Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
June-Sang Lee, Oxford University
Sarah Masaad, Ghent University
Charis Mesaritakis, University of the Aegean
Bert Jan Offrein, IBM Research – Zurich
Serge Massar, Université libre de Bruxelles
Kathy Lüdge, Technische Universität Ilmenau
Volker J. Sorger, George Washington University, University of Florida
Anastasios Tefas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ryan Hamerly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timoleon Moraitis, Huawei Technologies – Zurich Research Center
Nathan Youngblood, University of Pittsburgh
Wim Bogaerts, Ghent University
Ben Yoo, UC Davis
Alexandros Emboras, ETH Zurich

 
 
 
 

Organizing committee

Adonis Bogris – Univ. of West Attica,
Dissemination manager in EU projects NEoteRIC H2020, PROMETHEUS Horizon Europe

Charis Mesaritakis – Univ. of the Aegean,
Technical Manager in EU projects NEoteRIC H2020, PROMETHEUS Horizon Europe

Nikos Pleros – Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki,
Coordinator in EU project PlasmoniAC

Programme

1st Day (13th of July)

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome by A. Bogris, C. Mesaritakis and N. Pleros
09:30-11:00 Programmable photonics for machine learning applications
Chair: Adonis Bogris
Time
Speaker
Title
09:30-10:00
Jose Capmany
Fundamentals of analog computation using programmable photonics
10:00-10:30
Wim Bogaerts
Scaling challenges for programmable photonic circuits
10:30-11:00
Francesco Da Ros
Data-driven grey-box modeling of MZI meshes
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Brain Inspired Neuromorphic Computing I
Chair: Charis Mesaritakis
Time
Speaker
Title
11:30-12:00
Kathy Lüdge
Readout and timescale engineering in time-multiplexed reservoir computing
12:00-12:30
Serge Massar
Photonic Neuromorphic Computing based on Frequency Multiplexing
12:30-13:00
Antonio Hurtado
Photonic spiking neurons and spiking neural networks
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Photonic Integrated Approaches for Neuromorphic Computing
Chair: Nikos Pleros
Time
Speaker
Title
14:30-15:00
Adria Grabulosa
3D integration towards scalability for photonic neural network integration
15:00-15:30
Bin Shi
WDM-based Photonic integrated convolutional processor with additional parallelism
15:30-16:00
Ben Yoo
Brain-Derived Neuromorphic Computing by 3D Electronic-Photonic-Integrated-Circuits
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Applications of photonic accelerators
Chair: Apostolos Tsakyridis​
Time
Speaker
Title
16:30-17:00
June-Sang Lee
Integrated photonic processor for neuromorphic computing and beyond
17:00-17:30
Charis Mesaritakis
Photonic Integrated Accelarators based on spectro-temporal Processing for Telecom and Machine-Vision Applications
17:30-18:00
Ryan Hamerly
Nonlocal and Single-Chip Machine Learning Enabled by Light

2nd Day (14th of July)

09:30-11:00 Brain Inspired Neuromorphic Computing II
Chair: George Sarantoglou
Time
Speaker
Title
09:30-10:00
Miguel Cornelles Soriano
Photonic reservoir computing using time-multiplexed systems with classical and quantum resources
10:00-10:30
Lorenzo Pavesi
Equalization of PAM-4 IMDD signal by a small silicon photonics time delayed neural network
10:30-11:00
Sarah Masaad
Integrated Photonic Reservoir Computing for Telecommunication Applications
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Photonic Approaches for Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios
Time
Speaker
Title
11:30-12:00
Volker J. Sorger
Photonic-Electonic Chips for Machine Intelligence
12:00-12:30​
Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios
High-speed Silicon Photonic neuromorphic computing enhanced by hardware-aware deep learning methods
12:30-13:00
Nathan Youngblood
Computational photonic crossbar arrays for scalable and efficient matrix operations
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:30 Training approaches for neuromorphic processing
Chair: Nikos Pleros
Time
Speaker
Title
14:30-15:00
Anastasios Tefas
Open deep learning tools for neuromorphic computing
15:00-15:30
Timoleon Moraitis
Making neuromorphic computing the main stream of AI
15:30-16:00
Bert Offrein
New technologies for neuromorphic computing and the prospects for photonics
16:00-16:30
Alexandros Emboras
Bio-Inspired Learning Rules On Photonic-Electronic Neuromorphic Hardware
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Rump session: What is the most promising approach for photonics to enter the AI market?
Chairs: Adonis Bogris, Nikos Pleros, Charis Mesaritakis
Registration until Saturday 10/6/2023

Contact and Venue

Location

University of West Attica

EGALEO PARK CAMPUS
Ag. Spyridonos Str., Egaleo
Postal Code 12243, Athens

Email Address

Adonis Bogris: abogris@uniwa.com

Charis Mesaritakis: cmesar@aegean.gr

Nikos Pleros: npleros@csd.auth.gr