News
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We begin PRISM MURI with many other teams across the country!
The Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) is a highly competitive grant that supports basic defense-related research projects from universities across the United States. We will be working with researchers from University of Colorado Boulder, Yale University, University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics, University of Southern California, and University of Michigan to establish…
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Mid-IR modulator work highlighted talk at OFC
Our collaborated work on the “Demonstration of Mid-Wavelength Infrared IM/DD Communications Using Air-Suspended Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Intensity Modulator” was the top scored talk at the 48th Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) San Francisco, California. Great job!
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Mengjie wins Intel Rising Star Faculty Award
Congrats to the “star” ⭐of our group, MJ, for winning the Intel Rising Star Faculty Award. From Intel’s website: Each year, the Intel® Rising Star Faculty Award (RSA) program selects early-career academic researchers who are leading advancements in technology research that demonstrates the potential to disrupt the industry. For 2024, eight award winners are being…
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Mengjie wins NSF ASCENT award
We’re excited to announce that MJ wins the NSF ASCENT award (National Science Foundation Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams) for Wafer-scale Heterogenous Integration of Lithium-Niobate-on-Silicon Optpelectronics for Ultralow-energy AI computing! Nontechnical Description: The increasing data volumes from artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things, and 5G/6G networks is challenging the processing power of CMOS-based computing…
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Mengjie chosen as a Bakar Fellow
Congratulations to MJ for being chosen as a Bakar Fellow to develop the next generation of optical computers. The Bakar Fellows Program at UC Berkeley strives to accelerate research out of the lab and into the hands of the people. The award is given to promising projects that are more advanced than basic research, but…
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Mengjie selected for Block-Gift Program in Optical Communications
Congratulations to MJ for being selected for the 2025-2026 Block-Gift Program in Optical Communications for Photonics-Electronics Codesign and Co-packaging for Computing and Networking! [Link1] [Link2]
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Mengjie Receives DARPA YFA Director Fellowship Award
Our outstanding PI, MJ, was chosen to receive the DARPA YFA (Young Faculty Award) for 2023 with the proposal titled “On-chip electrical synthesis of few-cycle light via optical frequency comb!” The goal of the project is to “develop an ultrafast nanophotonic platform to generate high-peak-power femtosecond pulses and ultrabroadband optical frequency combs directly from a…
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See you soon!
We are excited to be moving our group from USC to UC Berkeley in Spring 2025! More updates to come…
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Mengjie Received Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant!
We’re excited to announce that Mengjie received a new grant recently. She is awarded a total amount of $1.25 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) collaborating with Prof. Wade Hsu and Prof. Andrew Hires to develop a new approach to non-invasive neural activity imaging. Congratulations to MJ!
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Congratulations to Mengjie for her recent Nature publication!
Good news from MJ, our fantastic group leader! Her new paper, Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate, has been published on Nature today! Read it at this [Link]