S18-093B Systems and Methods for Activation Functions for Photonic Neural Networks Stanford researchers have developed an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical neural networks. Shanhui Fan Tyler Hughes Momchil Minkov Ian Williamson
S18-093 Efficient, Scalable Training of Artificial Neural Networks Directly on Optical Devices Engineers in Prof. Shanhui Fan's laboratory have developed an efficient, scalable, in-situ method to train, configure and tune complex photonic circuits for artificial intelligence and machine learning. Tyler Hughes Momchil Minkov Shanhui Fan Ian Williamson