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Accelerating AI through Photonics
August 23, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Title: Accelerating AI through Photonics
Speaker: Dr. Jared Mikkelsen, Lightmatter
Date and time:Â Friday, August 23, 2024, 6-7pm
Location: MP102, McLennan Physical Laboratories, 255 Huron St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
Abstract: Lightmatter is combining electronics, photonics, and new algorithms to create a next generation compute platform. At the core of Lightmatter’s technology is the use of silicon photonic devices. In this talk, I will introduce Lightmatter’s product, Passage. Passage is a wafer-scale programmable photonic interconnect that uses silicon waveguides to enable heterogeneous chips to communicate with unprecedented bandwidth and energy efficiency. Lightmatter representatives and I will also present the company’s expansion plans and our activities in Toronto. We welcome senior undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals to attend this talk and learn about opportunities to work with us.
Bio:Dr. Jared Mikkelsen is a Senior Photonics Design Engineer at Lightmatter. With over a decade of experience in Integrated Optics, he has worked at Finisar (now Coherent), Huawei Canada, and Alphawave Semi. He earned his Ph. D in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2019, where his research on Photonic Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) included designing photonic switches representing some of the largest PICs ever attempted at the time. He has authored over 30 journal papers and holds inventorship in multiple patents spanning diverse disciplines within photonics, including data communications, 3D sensing, and display technologies.
