2 papers
cs.AI2026
PICasso: An AI-Enabled Design Framework for Autonomous Optimization of Silicon Photonic Devices
Deepak Vungarala, Deniz Najafi, Abdulrahman Aljoudi +6
We present PICasso, an AI-assisted framework for automated synthesis, verification, and optimization of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) from natural-language specifications. PI…
cs.AR2025
Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics
Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi +7
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a powerful architecture for computer vision tasks due to their ability to model long-range dependencies and global contextual relationshi…