Lab News
2021
Pinned; 01/29/2021: Our review article on "Photonics for artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing" has been published in Nature Photonics. Congratulations to all!
02/09/2021: Bicky's paper "Photonic pattern reconstruction enabled by on-chip online learning and inference" has been accepted for publication in J. Phys. Photonics. Congratulations Bicky on this nice experiment!
02/03/2021: Our Nature Photonics review article "Photonics for artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing" has been featured in Nature Photonics Editorial, Queen’s Gazette, Phys.org, Science Bulletin, ScienMag, Science Daily, Novus Light to name a few! Check out our Media page for for more details.
01/27/2021: Annie won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2021 Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CCUWiP) for her summer work! Awesome job Annie!
01/08/2021: Ahmed Khaled joins Shastri Lab as a new Masters student from Egypt! Welcome Ahmed!
01/05/2021: Shastri Lab has two open positions for the Queen's accelerated masters program (starting May 2021). One position is for "Nanophotonics for neuromorphic computing and artificial intelligence" and the other for "Quantum photonic neural networks" co-advised with Prof. Rotenberg. Please see openings for details.
2020
12/23/2020: Bhavin has been appointed as a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute, Toronto.
12/09/2020: Bhavin and Prof. Paul Prucnal gave a joint Tutorial on "Silicon Neural Networks and Applications" at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). Thanks to Prof. Johan Bauwelinck (UGent-imec) for the invitation!
12/06/2020: Bhavin co-organized and co-hosted a ECOC 2020 Workshop on "Pathway to Bring Photonics in High-Performance Computing: from Materials to Applications" with Prof. Paul Prucnal (Princeton) and Francesca Parmigiani (Microsoft, UK).
11/30/2020: Bhavin gave an invited talk on "Information Processing with Silicon Photonics" at Material Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting. Thanks to Prof. Volker Sorger (GWU) and Ning Li (IBM) for the invitation.
11/25/2020: Philip's paper "Blind source separation with integrated photonics and reduced dimensional statistics" has been published in Optics Letters. Congrats Yechi!
11/14/2020: Bicky invited paper on "Silicon photonics for artificial intelligence applications" has been published in Photoniques. Congrats Bicky!
11/12/2020: Prof. Prucnal (Princeton) and Bhavin gave a joint invited talk on "Silicon Neural Networks and Applications" to SpringerNature at the Nature Communities Talk. Thanks to Mark Daly and Daniel Payne for extending us the invitation!
11/1/2020: Bhavin is grateful to serve as a Mentor for the Girls SySTEM. Check out how Girls SySTEM is inspiring the next generation of STEM leaders.
10/26/2020: Bhavin gave two invited talks (virtually) over the weekend: one at the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Beijing, China, and another at the International Conference on Future Technology and Disruptive Innovation, Hangzhou, China. Thanks to Workshop Organizers and Committee Members for the invitations!
10/05/2020: Shastri Labs gave five talks at the 2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC). Congratulations to Yash, Emma, Bicky, Matthew, and Matteo for giving impressive talks on topics ranging from graphene synapses, to in situ training photonic networks, to photonic LSTMs, to secure communications, and microrings based single-qubit unitary.
10/05/2020: Shastri Lab welcomes Devyn Dowler-Lewis, Adam Grace, Eric Leuty, and Nick Miemiec to pursue their final year Eng. Phys. Thesis with us. Check out our team page to learn more about them. Welcome folks!
09/12/2020: Bhavin was awarded the 2020 Young Scientist Prize in Optics "for his pioneering contributions to Neuromorphic Photonics" by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) through The International Commission of Optics (ICO).
09/05/2020: Greg Love joins Shastri Lab to do his final year Physics thesis on quantum networks. Welcome Greg!
09/02/2020: Marcus Tamura, new Masters student, joins the Shastri Lab from the Prairies adding on to our increasing Albertan representation! Welcome Marcus!
08/11/2020: Matthew has received a Canada Graduate Scholarship – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement to pursue a semester abroad for graduate research at Princeton in Prof. Prucnal's Lightwave Lab in collaboration with Prof. Rodriguez. Congrats Matthew!
08/10/2020: Bicky and Hugh's paper "Graphene-based photonic synapse for multi wavelength neural networks" has been accepted for publication in MRS Advances. Congratulations folks!
07/25/2020: Our article "Roadmap on emerging hardware and technology for machine learning" has been accepted for publication in Nanotechnology. Big shout out to Prof. Qiangfei Xia (UMass) and Prof. Karl Berggren (MIT) for leading this effort!
07/16/2020: Bhavin gave two invited talks at Advanced Photonics Congress (APC). Thanks to Prof. José Capmany (UPV), Prof. Shamsul Arafin (OSU), and Dr. Benjamin Yang (Georgia Tech) for the invitations!
07/01/2020: Bhavin has been elevated to the grade of OSA Senior Member.
06/26/2020: Chaoran's invited paper "On-chip programmable optical signal processor and its applications" has been published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. Congrats Chaoran!
06/05/2020: Bhavin is a recipient of the AMS Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award (2019-2020). Credits go to our strong Undergrads that are constantly striving for excellence.
06/01/2020: Our work is featured by OSA in Optics and Photonics News (OPN) article "Optical Neural Networks" as part of an international effort in this field.
05/29/2020: Bhavin gave an invited talk at the Photonics North Conference on "Silicon Photonic Neural Networks and Applications" in the "Photonics and AI" session. Thanks to Prof. Lora Ramunno (U. Ottawa) and Dr. Mario Krenn (U. Toronto) for the invitation!
05/18/2020: Shastri Lab in collaboration with Profs. Chrostowski and Shekhar (UBC) have been awarded an NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) grant to investigate scalable silicon photonic integrated circuits for computing!
05/13/2020: Matthew has been awarded a Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (2020-21) to pursue an AI study plan at Queen's University for MASc in Applied Physics. Congrats Matthew—you are on a roll!
05/05/2020: Shastri Lab in collaboration with Prof. Shideh Ameri (Queen's) has been awarded an NSERC Research Tool and Instruments (RTI) grant for our project on "Neurophotonic-electronic brain machine interface system"!
05/01/2020: Ryan Burley joins Shastri Lab as an Accelerated Masters student in Engineering Physics to work on Neuromorphic Photonics. Welcome Ryan!
04/16/2020: Matthew has been awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program! Richly deserved. Congratulations Matthew!
04/14/2020: Annie is a recipient of the Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Fund (ASURF)! Way to go Annie!
04/01/2020: Aashu's first paper "Lateral bipolar junction transistor on a silicon photonics platform" has been accepted for publication in Optics Express. Congrats Aashu!
03/16/2020: Chaoran's paper "Demonstration of scalable microring weight bank control for large-scale photonic integrated circuits" has been accepted for publication in APL Photonics. Chaoran is on a roll!
03/09/2020: Chaoran's paper "Demonstration of photonic neural network for fiber nonlinearity compensation in long-haul transmission systems" has been accepted as a Postdeadline paper accepted at OFC 2020, San Diego CA, USA. Big experiment! Congrats!
03/08/2020: Matthew is a recipient of the 2020-21 Arthur B. McDonald Prize for Academic Excellence! Congratulations Matthew!
02/07/2020: SPIE covered our work on photonic neuromorphic computing!
02/06/2020: Our IEEE JSTQE Special Issue on "Photonics for Deep Learning and Neural Computing" has been published! Here is the editorial. Many thanks to Prof. José Capmany, Editor-in-Chief, and Ms. Chin Tan Lutz for their support, and to the efforts of the Primary Guest Editor, Dr. Paul Prucnal (Princeton) and Guest Editors Dr. Ingo Fischer (IFISC, CSIC-UIB) and Dr. Daniel Brunner (Institut FEMTO-ST) for making this possible!
02/05/2020: Bhavin gave two invited talks at SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, USA. Thanks to Prof. Winne Ye (Carleton), Prof. Bahram Jalali (UCLA), and Prof. Kenichi Kitayama for the invitations.
01/21/2020: Bhavin gave a talk at the Toyota Research Institute of North America: Photonic Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Thanks to Dr. Sean Rodrigues, Dr. Ercan Dede, Jae Lee, Hideo Iizuka, and Paul Schmalenberg for organizing this workshop and for the invitation.
01/09/2020: Jagmeet Singh joins Shastri Lab as Masters Candidate from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, India. Welcome Jagmeet!
01/02/2020: Bhavin is organizing a workshop on Optics for Neuromorphic Computing and Machine Learning: Status, Prospects and Challenges with Prof. Chigo Okonkwo (TU Eindhoven) and Dr. Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Mellanox Technologies) at OFC 2020, San Diego CA, USA. With the range of invited speakers, this workshop promises to stimulate some interesting discussions. Consider attending!
01/02/2020: Philip's paper "Photonic independent component analysis using an on-chip microring weight bank" has been accepted for publication in Optics Express. Congratulations Philip!