Paul Prucnal
Princeton University (USA)
Biography:
Paul Prucnal is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. He received his A.B. from Bowdoin College, and M.S., M.Phil. and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University. He was a faculty member at Columbia from 1979-1988, and joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1988. Prucnal is co-author of the book, Neuromorphic Photonics, and editor of the book Optical Code Division Multiple Access: Fundamentals and Applications. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of Optica and the National Academy of Inventors, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of the Gold Medal from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics at Comenius University, and numerous teaching awards at Princeton, including the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Topic of presentation: Neuromorphic Photonics
Abstract:
Neuromorphic photonics combines the advantages of photonics with the computational power of neural networks to create novel reconfigurable processing devices. Doing so enables new applications which are difficult or impossible for conventional digital electronic or RF processors to handle. This talk will highlight recent progress in neuromorphic photonic integrated circuits (PICs), beginning with photonic neurons which integrate both the linear and nonlinear functionality. It will then cover recent demonstrations utilizing PICs, including model predictive control (MPC), RF blind source separation (BSS), nonlinearity compensation in long-haul communications, and RF fingerprinting.