This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) grant (CFDA 47.070) awarded to George Washington University (GWU) provides $424,291 over 4 years to research the development of a novel dual-purpose photonic fabric that can enable both power-efficient on-chip data communications and high-performance neural network acceleration for future heterogeneous chiplet-based computing architectures. The key objectives are to: (1) provide high-bandwidth and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $1,000,000 to Ohio University to research and develop multi-functional, self-healing, and cross-layer optimized electro-optic fabrics for sustainable computing systems. The overarching goal is to enhance the sustainability of computing through reduced embodied energy and extended hardware lifetime. Key objectives include: (1) novel electrical...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program will support research to transform integrated electro-photonic fabrics for light-speed communication and computation. The $349,611 award to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation aims to overcome limitations of current electronic systems and realize more efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective electro-photonic computing...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to transform integrated electro-photonic platforms for light-speed communication and computation. The $250,000 award to Colorado State University (CSU) will advance the design of sustainable, high-performance electro-photonic computing platforms that can overcome the scaling limitations of current electronic systems. Key objectives...
This Project Grant award of $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) supports research focused on solving challenges in designing and improving optical resonators, which are essential components in technologies such as the internet, medical diagnostics, and advanced computing. The project aims to develop a computational framework that leverages high-performance computing to enable faster and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $409,834 to the University of Cincinnati to design, fabricate, and characterize novel electrically pumped topological nanowire photonic crystal lasers. The goal is to develop highly compact, defect-robust laser light sources compatible with photonic integrated circuits for high-performance, low-power information technology applications. The research will explore topologically...
The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) awarded a $616,702 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan on October 1, 2024 for the "FUSE2 TOPIC 2: HETEROGENEOUS IN-PACKAGE PHOTONICS WITH RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL SWITCHING FOR AI CLUSTERS (HEROIC-AI)" project. This collaborative research effort, involving three leading universities, four IT companies, and a national lab, aims to develop a highly integrated photonic chip solution to enable ultra-high...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...
This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) will fund the development of new types of on-chip "topological photodetectors" that can detect and differentiate between different modes and properties of light, such as its phase, polarization, and orbital angular momentum. These novel photodetectors, based on emerging quantum materials like Weyl semimetals,...
This $424,750 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of an ultrashort-pulse optical neural network system for brain-scale computing. The research aims to leverage the speed, bandwidth, and low-loss properties of light to enable real-time processing of billion-scale neural network models using minimal spatial elements. This approach seeks to overcome the limitations of current optical computing architectures. The...