Biography:

Weigang Hou was born in China in 1984. In 2011, he won Chinese Academic newcomer award. In 2012, he was an associate researcher with the computer science from City University of Hong Kong. From 2019, he was the full professor, Ph. D supervisor and co-tutor of Postdoctoral/workstation in Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is also the member of IEEE ComSoc and OSA, review editor on the editorial board of optical communications and networks and young academic editor of international journal DCN. In 2019, he won the first batch award of top-notch young talent in Chongqing Talent Program. His interests are in the area of optical communications and photonic chip. His research programs span the interest areas above. Until now, he has served as the session chair, program vice-chair and program chair of IEEE international conferences, and the reviewer for a number of IEEE journals. He has held over 120 publications, and they span IEEE Magazine, Trans, Journals and some famous conferences, including IEEE ComMag, IEEE Netw, IEEE/OSA JLT, IEEE/OSA JOCN, OFC, Globecom and ICC, etc. He has been an Invited Speaker at about 10 IEEE conferences. Since 2013, he has won a number of international scientific awards, including the best IEEE journal paper from ISJ 2018, the best paper award of IEEE Qshine and IEEE CITS, and the outstanding reviewer of 3 international journals, etc.

Speech title:
Photonic CNN Accelerator

Abstract:
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) gain significant success in a wide variety of applications. However, large scale data movement and complex computing pose representative challenges to existing accelerators. Electrical-based accelerators are energy-consuming and inefficient, while current nanophotonic accelerators can offer the promise of energy efficiency and speed improvement.