Projects
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Projects funded by the European Commission
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN No. 101169118
Role: Principal Investigator
The modern ICT world faces a data explosion from the growth of online services, smartphones, and industrial networks, requiring massive increases in processing power and bandwidth. While Moore's law once met these demands, digital technologies are nearing their physical limits, exacerbating global energy consumption concerns. In response, academic and industrial research is exploring unconventional, nature-inspired computing approaches. These include leveraging the speed and energy efficiency of light-based computing and the benefits of analog computing in artificial neural networks, especially for parallel processing and lower-resolution tasks.
HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-3-RIA No. 101194363
Role: Principal Investigator
The NEHIL project, an EU-Korea collaboration, aims to revolutionize digital technologies through advanced neuromorphic architectures and LiDAR integration. It develops two systems: a FeFET-based Compute-in-Memory accelerator for real-time, energy-efficient processing, and a photonic integrated circuit for dynamic data handling. Targeting a 50% reduction in power use and ultra-low latency LiDAR, NEHIL enhances capabilities in fields like telecom, healthcare, smart cities, and automation while improving resolution, accuracy, and cost-efficiency, especially in autonomous vehicle navigation.
FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020 - FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking No. 899265
Role: Senior Researcher
The ADOPD project aims to contribute to the advancement of artificial intelligence systems by developing ultra-fast computing units based on optical fiber technologies that imitate the information processing carried out by neurons in their dendritic trees. Its main objective is to achieve the development of computational systems with advanced capabilities compared to conventional artificial neural networks, while taking advantage of the benefits that neuro-inspired photonic implementations offer: high processing speed (hundreds of Gbits/s) and potentially low power consumption. [Web]
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 No. 860360
Role: PhD Supervisor, UIB representative
POST-DIGITAL is committed to form a new generation of engineers and researchers, affording them a uniquely broad interdisciplinary education and training which enables them to design and develop unconventional computing systems. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 860360. [Web]
FP7-ICT-2009-C No. 240763
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
This research project, funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the domain of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET-Open), brought together seven groups from four European countries. With this consortium, comprising high expertise from photonics, neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, and electronic systems, we explored and implemented a novel concept of information processing in photonics. [Web]
FP6-2006-IST-2.5.1 IST-34551
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
The ultimate goal of PICASSO was the development of photonic components and subsystems to build chaos-based optical communication systems. Monolithic and hybrid photonic integrated circuits were designed and developed for the realization of chaotic transmitters and receivers. Extensive security testing, verification and calibration of the chaos encoded communication system was performed. Different types of transmitter/receiver pairs were fabricated and the validity of the security assumptions were proved experimentally. Fully functional transmitter and receiver modules were developed in the C band of the telecommunications window operating at 10 Gb/s. [Web]
ICT COST Action 288
Role: Predoctoral Researcher
The main objective of this COST Action was to advance the application of ultrafast nanophotonics to provide high capacity photonic communication infrastructures, as well as to bring forward advanced research on novel topics such as advanced optical signal processing and optical logic, microwave photonics and exploratory technologies (based on nanophotonics) such as quantum communication. [Web]
HPRN-CT-2000-00034
Role: Predoctoral Researcher
In order for Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) to become more important opto-electronic devices, an effort was made for solving some problems related to the VCSEL behaviour, in particular for polarisation instabilities pattern complexity, modulation patterning effects, low power, thermal lensing and feedback effects. The main objectives of this Project were the understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms relevant to VCSEL operation, the subsequent improvement of their efficiency and the transfer of this knowledge to VCSEL based systems. [Web]
Projects funded by the Spanish Government
PID2022-139409NB-I00
Role: (Co-) Principal Investigator
In the INFOLANET project, we combine our expertise on dynamical systems and machine learning to advance information processing concepts, based on a high-speed photonic implementation. We anticipate that synchronization, understood in a broad sense, will be key to boost information processing performance. We aim to establish a network of coupled lasers that is able to generate diverse responses to the input stimulus (high-dimensionality of the responses) while keeping these responses reproducible for supervised learning (consistency of the responses). In order to comply with these apparently contradictory requirements, different aspects related to identical or generalized synchronization, stimulus-induced or autonomous synchronization, and transient or stable synchronization properties will need to be investigated to ultimately understand their impact on the performance.
PID2019-109094GB-C22
Role: Principal Investigator
The project aims at extending the reservoir computing paradigm into the quantum regime exploiting quantum networks as a specific realization of quantum machine learning. The goal of QuaResC is a systematic exploration of different implementations of quantum reservoir computing both with qubits and continuous variables to address their capability and to establish the possibility of a quantum advantage in the context of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing (NISQ).
TEC2016-80063-C3
Role: (Co-) Principal Investigator
Novel technologies related to optical communications, sensing, the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence have been generating unique opportunities and potential to enhance our quality-of-life, and to provide new services for our society and economy. However, the perspective to manage and process the dramatically increasing amount of data relies on our ability to handle these data with high-speed, suitable hardware and much improved energy efficiency. In this project, it is our aim to develop novel all-optical decoding schemes for optical communication networks, that are based on neuro-inspired concepts and are able to fulfill the previous requirements.
FIS2015-71929-REDT
Role: Local Coordinator
With this proposal we intend to create a Research Network in dynamics and synchronization of complex networks. The main goal is to increase the interaction between theoretical and experimental groups to obtain the maximum performance of both perspectives. The network members are renowned national groups in the study of dynamical systems, complex networks, experimentation with biological systems and analysis of brain activity. In the current proposal, the Research Network plans to articulate a sequence of actions (annual meeting, courses, exchange of researchers, seminars, website, shared databases, publishing a book) aimed at increasing collaboration between groups, to disseminate results and optimize theoretical and experimental resources. It is also planned to open up our activities to the private sector participants who have shown their interest in the potential results obtained within IberSinc, in order to promote the transfer of research results and to create new professional opportunities to the researchers trained within IberSinc. [Web]
TEC2012-36335
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
The aim of this project was to develop and explore a novel photonic information processing scheme, capable of efficiently performing classification, pattern recognition and prediction tasks. We achieved high computational performance with a small number of components by using semiconductor lasers with delayed coupling. Our approach allowed for high speed (GHz) processing, low power consumption and minimal hardware requirements.
TEC2009-14101
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
This project was aimed at the exploration of the potential of delay-coupled semiconductor lasers in two key applications for private communication: the generation of high-bit-rate random number generation and the implementation of secure key distribution.
Projects funded by private bodies
Role: Scientific Responsible
Role: Researcher