Flexible Photonic Accelerated Computing (FlexPAC)

Task Leader

Keren Bergman
Keren Bergman

Columbia Univeristy

Collaborative Faculty

Michal Lipson
Michal Lipson

Columbia University 

Current Students/Postdocs

Liang Yuan Dai
Liang Yuan Dai
Liang Yuan Dai

Columbia University

Zhenguo Wu
Zhenguo Wu
Zhenguo Wu

Columbia University

Yuyang Wang
Yuyang Wang
Yuyang Wang

Columbia University

Past members

Chenning Li, Sudarsanan Rajasekaran, Weiyang Wang

Task Objective

The objective of this task is to accelerate the communication-intensive collectives in AI/ML workloads with photonic architectures that uniquely leverage novel optical comb sources and fine-grained, highly flexible optical connectivity through multi-wavelength selective switching and multicasting.