Background:

Simon hails from rugged northern Québec, Canada. He graduated from McGill University’s Honours Physics undergraduate program in 2015 with a focus in condensed matter. He further completed a M.Sc. there, also in Physics, where he studied strongly correlated electronic behavior in semiconductor devices at ultralow temperatures. For his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Princeton, he is interested in how fundamental nanophotonics and device-level optoelectronics can be applied to systems-level optical signal processing, notably neuromorphic photonics. Outside the lab, Simon enjoys the outdoors, physical activity, reading, and (some would say intense) board games.

Research Interests:

• Nanophotonics
• Integrated optoelectronic devices
• Inverse design
• Applications of neuromorphic photonics

Background:

Eric C. Blow graduated with High Honors from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in the Lightwave Communications Group, Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Eric joined the lightwave laboratory as a undergraduate researcher in 2014. Prior to the his work in the Lightwave Lab, he was a research intern for the TCNJ Photonics Laboratory and the Naval Surface Warfare Center.

Research Interests:

Microwave Photonics, Cancellation Systems, Photonic Integrated Circuits, RF Processing, Linear Filters.

Background:

Yusuf Jimoh received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) in 2022. He is currently working on his Ph.D. at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. His research interests include integrated photonics, neuromorphic photonics, and scalable and reconfigurable photonic signal processors.

Research Interests:

• Integrated Photonics
• Neuromorphic Photonics
• Automated & Scalable Photonic Design
• Photonic Signal Processing

Background:

Josh Lederman graduated with honors from Cornell University in 2019 with a degree in Engineering Physics. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the Lightwave Communications Research Lab advised by Professor Paul Prucnal, where he works on the development of photonic systems for signal processing and neural networks, with a particular focus on electronic-photonic integration and coordinated analog-photonic/digital-electronic information processing. He is a recipient of the Princeton President's Fellowship and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.

Research Interests:

• Co-integrated low-latency digital/photonic systems
• Integrated photonic neural networks
• Electro-optic transfer function shaping using optical nonlinearity

Background:

Jiawei Zhang received his B.S. degree majoring in physics from Nankai University in China, in 2022. Before joining Lightwave Lab, he had various research experiences on device-level nanophotonics and nonlinear optics. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Lightwave Lab at Princeton University. His research interest generally includes neuromorphic photonic hardware, system-level optical signal processing, and device-level integrated photonics.

Research Interests:

• Neuromorphic Photonic
• Photonic Integrated Circuits
• RF Signal Processing

Background:

Weipeng Zhang graduated from Beihang University with a B.S. in Physics and from Tsinghua University with an M.S. in Optical Engineering. He has years of research experience in precision measurement utilizing the optical frequency comb, including ranging, surface metrology, and spectroscopy. He now pivots himself towards a more exciting and promising field, the silicon photonics. In Prof. Prucnal's lab, he is currently researching in Blind Source Separation using the photonic integrated chip.

Research Interests:

Silicon photonics in RF signal processing; Neuromorphic photonics

Background:

Siamak Abbaslou is currently a postdoctoral researcher working at Lightwave lab (Prof. Paul Prucnal). He is interested in the design and development of novel photonic integrated devices and systems for optical signal processing, neuromorphic computingand on chip optical interconnect applications. His research lies at the intersection of solid-state electronics and nanophotonics. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Rutgers university in 2017 his research was focused on design and implementation of high density integrated devices for optical interconnects. As a postdoctoral researcher, he is developing electro-optic modulators and designing optical components of the neuromorphic photonic platform.

Background:

Chaoran Huang received the B.S. degree in optical information science and technology from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, in 2016. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lightwave Communications Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Dr. Huang is the recipient of awards including The HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers, CUHK Research Fellowship, CUHK Postgraduate Studentship and China National Scholarship. She has authored 15 refereed papers and 12 conference papers.

Research Interests:

Photonic devices for nonlinear signal processing

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