Aleksandr Biberman's research was recently featured on the cover of "Reports on Progress in Physics." His invited review article, titled "Optical interconnection networks for high-performance computing systems" explore the potential of silicon photonic technology to be a key disruptive technology in computing and communication industries.
Dan Brunina has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2012 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition for his submission to the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conferenceentitled "Optically-Connected Memory with Error Correction for Increased Reliability in Large-Scale Computing Systems."
Professor Keren Bergman was recently featured at the Womensphere Leadership Forum in a keynote video.
Graduate student Cathy Chen was recently featured on the Columbia University Engineering website in a student profile video.
In an article titled, "Integrated Photonics Coming of Age", HPC Wire interviews Professor Keren Bergman, and Nadya Bliss, of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, on the future role of integrated photonics in high-performance computing systems.
"At Columbia they have been developing an extensive suite of design tools for creating optically interconnected networks-on-chip that are physical layer accurate. This is the basis for their architectural design exploration and validation that the photonic technologies will function as intended."
"Keren Bergman, chair of Columbia Engineering's Department of Electrical Engineering, is a groundbreaking researcher whose work in dynamic optical data routing is tackling problems as diverse as relieving the information gridlock on the Internet and ensuring high-performance interconnects for communicating massive volumes of information at nearly the speed of light. As director of Columbia's Lightwave Research Laboratory, she is developing a new class of nanoscale photonic interconnect technologies that seamlessly move data from on-chip networks, across memory, and large computing systems with…
Kishore Padmaraju's abstract, "Error-Free Transmission of DPSK at 5 Gb/s Using a Silicon Microring Modulator", was a finalist for the best student paper at the 2011 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Johnnie Chan and Aleksandr Biberman have both been selected as semi-finalists in the 2011 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition for their submissions to the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conference entitled "Data Transmission Using Wavelength-Selective Spatial Routing for Photonic Interconnection Networks" and "CMOS-Compatible Scalable Photonic Switch Architecture Using 3D-Integrated Deposited Silicon Materials for High-Performance Data Center Networks", respectively
Caroline Lai was also selected as a semi-finalist in the 2011 Corning Outstanding Student…
The front page of the Columbia Record featured Keren Bergman's work on speeding up the internet, highlighting her research within CIAN and GENI.
Caroline Lai and Daniel Brunina's paper, "Demonstration of 8x40-Gb/s Wavelength-Striped Packet Switching in a Multi-Terabit Capacity Optical Network Test-Bed," was a finalist for the best student paper at the IEEE Photonics Society 2010 Annual Meeting, held in Denver, CO.