Plenary Speakers
Dr. Alexis Black Bjorlin
VP & GM, DGX Cloud, Nvidia, USA
Talk Title:
Photonics in the Era of Scaled AI Systems
Photonics plays a critical role in scaling out today’s state-of-the-art AI Systems and Infrastructure. With the rapid scaling of LLMs for both training and inference serving, we review the increasingly important role photonics will play in both scale out and scale up system domains. We discuss the impact of optical reliability on system availability and TCO.
Dr. Alexis Black Bjorlin Bio:
Alexis Bjorlin is VP & GM, DGX Cloud at Nvidia, and previously, she was VP of Infrastructure at Meta, where her team was responsible for Infrastructure hardware/software co-designed systems. Before Meta, Alexis held senior executive positions at Broadcom, Intel, and Source Photonics. She earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Dr. John Bowers
Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Talk Title:
Integrated Silicon Photonic Circuits
Abstract:
Tremendous progress is being made worldwide in silicon photonics. Integration with nonlinear materials enables efficient frequency combs and quantum computing and communication. 3D integration enables low noise, narrow linewidth lasers and integration with modulators, photodetector and passive elements. Optical interconnects for data centers require high capacity, high density, lower power and low cost and demonstrations from 1.6 to 60 Tbps. We review these advances and provide a roadmap for the future.
Dr. John Bowers Bio:
John Bowers holds the Fred Kavli Chair, and is the Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a Distinguished Professor in the ECE and Materials Departments at UCSB. Dr. Bowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is an AAAS, OSA, IEEE and APS fellow. He is a recipient of the IEEE Nishizawa Medal, IEEE Photonics, OSA/IEEE Tyndall, OSA Holonyak and IEEE William Streifer Awards.
Prof. Constantin Leon Häfner
Managing Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), Germany
Talk Title:
Laser Inertial Fusion Energy: Unlocking Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges, and Its Transformative potential for the Photonics Industry
Abstract:
In 2022, laser-driven inertial confinement fusion achieved a milestone by generating more energy than supplied. This talk will overview recent results, ongoing challenges, and explore the implications for the photonics engineering industry, emphasizing opportunities for growth in Germany and Europe within this emerging field.
Prof. Constantin Leon Häfner Bio:
Since 2020 Managing Director of the Fraunhofer ILT, Full Professor & Chair of Laser Technology at RWTH Aachen, and former Director of the Advanced Photon Technologies Program, NIF & Photon Science Directorate at LLNL., US. He is a renowned expert in advanced high-energy laser science and technology, particularly in IFE applications, where he has made pioneering contributions.
Dr. Waguih Ishak
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University’s Department of Electrical Engineering, USA
Talk Title:
Photonics & Optoelectronics for the Tera Era
Abstract: We are living in the Tera Era: Terabit/s communications, Terbytes of storage, TeraFLOPS of computing and TeraHz of sensing and measuring. Optical (Photonics & Optoelectronics) are key and backbone technologies for the next few decades.
Dr. Waguih Ishak Bio:
Dr. Waguih Ishak is an adjunct professor at Stanford University’s Electrical Engineering Department. He recently retired from Corning R&D Corporation as the VP and Chief Technologist.
Prof. Chennupati Jagadish
Australian National University, Australia
Talk Title:
Semiconductor Nanostructures for Optoelectronics Applications
Abstract:
In this talk, I will discuss about growth of semiconductor nanowires, nanomembranes and microrings and present their optical properties. Results on nanowire lasers, vector beam lasers, micro-ring lasers, single photon sources, THz detectors, nanowire solar cells, nanowire sensors and neuron growth on nanowires will be presented.
Prof. Chennupati Jagadish Bio:
Prof. Jagadish is a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and President of the Australian Academy of Science. He has served as President of the IEEE Photonics Society, IEEE Nanotechnology Council. He has published 750+ journal papers. He is a Fellow/Member of 14 Science and Engineering Academies of Australia, US, UK, Europe, China, India.