News & Announcements

On August 19th, we celebrated the milestone of our 2007 article in Nature Photonics, which marked the debut of the dielectric RF receiver. The pioneering RF receiver incorporates a ceramic RF antenna with an electrooptic sensor. The absence of any metal or electronic...

Professor Bahram Jalali along with the Ph.D. students Yiming Zhou and Callen MacPhee delivered a successful academic lecture on PhyCV at Qualcomm entitled "Low-complexity image processing algorithm for Autonomous Driving using Physics-AI Symbiosis" Abstract:...

We are happy to announce the release of our new physics-inspired low-light image enhancement algorithm VEViD to PhyCV. VEViD, or Vision Enhancement via Virtual Diffraction and Coherent Detection, was recently introduced in a publication in eLight. The algorithm...

We are proud to introduce a powerful low-light enhancement algorithm, VEViD. It builds on more than two decades of research in optical physics in our laboratory and has direct applications in augmented reality, night-time driving, biology, and space exploration. The...

Check out our latest publication entitled "Physics-AI Symbiosis" that just appeared as an invited paper in Machine Learning: Science and Technology! As a mix of perspective and review, the paper explores emerging ideas in which physics is blended with AI to extend the...

We are happy to announce the release of the first Physics-inspired Computer Vision Library: PhyCV. PhyCV has a new class of computer vision algorithms that emulates the propagation of light through a physical medium with natural and engineered diffractive properties...

We are happy to announce that we have made public the code for our latest physics-inspired algorithm which detects edges and their orientations in digital images at various scales. The algorithm, called PAGE, is based on the diffraction equations of optics and...

Professor Bahram Jalali has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to silicon photonics, high time-resolution scientific instruments, and biomedical imaging. For details, please refer to the official announcement from Samueli School...

We are pleased to report a successful AI and Optical Data Science conference last week in San Francisco. This is a symposium we organize every year at the SPIE Photonics West, the largest optics conference in North America. Despite the pandemic, the sessions were well...

Milestones in Silicon Photonics by the Jalali-Lab