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Updated on November 19, 2025

 

December 2025 — UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (UF News): “America’s next AI accelerator constraint: Heat, power and the end of ‘just add GPUs’,” featuring Dr. Hamed Dalir’s work on hybrid photonic–electronic AI hardware and vertical integration. https://www.eng.ufl.edu/news/research-innovation/americas-next-ai-accelerator-constraint-heat-power-and-the-end-of-just-add-gpus/

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December 2025 — ECE Florida (News roundup / Linked from UF Engineering):
Departmental spotlight referencing the UF Engineering feature on photonic AI accelerators led by Dr. Hamed Dalir.
https://news.ece.ufl.edu/

 

November 2025 — UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (LinkedIn): Dr. Hamed Dalir, Associate Professor of ECE Florida, is featured for leadership in photonics, AI hardware, and semiconductor innovation.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/uf-herbert-wertheim-college-of-engineering_photonics-aihardware-semiconductors-activity-7395124758054555648-L2PE

 

November 2025 — ECE Florida (LinkedIn): Dr. Hamed Dalir is recognized as Co-Chair of the new Photonic AI Hardware Track at IEEE RAPID / Photonics Society initiatives.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eceflorida_ufengineering-photonics-aihardware-activity-7394506004278820864-xrv7

 

October 2025 — ECE Florida (LinkedIn): Dr. Hamed Dalir receives the 2024–25 Faculty of the Year Award for excellence in teaching and student mentorship.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eceflorida_hamed-dalir-phd-was-honored-to-receive-activity-7318356601260703745-tcsq

 

October 2025 — UF Innovate (LinkedIn): ECE Florida’s Dr. Hamed Dalir is featured as part of a $5.2 M national research effort to revolutionize chip design through 3D optical packaging.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/uf-innovate-tech-licensing_ufnews-ufresearch-funding-activity-7335666640241553408-s9Un

 

September 2025 — ECE Florida (LinkedIn): Hamed Dalir, PhD, and Elham Heidari, PhD are highlighted for collaborating with Relative Dynamics on a NASA-supported quantum-enhanced photonic sensing project.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eceflorida_hamed-dalir-phd-and-elham-heidari-phd-activity-7378457840287449088-Nkdk

 

September 25, 2025 — Our team has joined NASA collaborators to advance quantum photonics for next-gen gravitational wave detectors. https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2025/09/25/from-lab-to-orbit/

 

September 2, 2025 — Congratulations to Amirany, postdoctoral researcher in the CHIP Lab at the University of Florida, for receiving the prestigious IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Best Paper Award as an SRC Researcher.
https://mailchi.mp/319c7006acee/src-connections-newsletter-july-10611733?e=3c5c7638c2

 

May 14, 2025 — ECE Florida News: Dalir joins $5.2 M national effort to develop 3D optical packaging for next-generation AI chips. https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2025/05/14/dalir-joins-national-effort/

 

April 7, 2025 — ECE Florida News: CHIP Lab awarded up to $435 k by NSWC Crane to pioneer ultra-low-power ADC/DAC technology for photonic AI accelerators. https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2025/04/07/dalir-nswc/

 

January 8, 2025 — ECE Florida News: CHIP Lab secures $435 k SRC funding to advance high-performance photonic integrated circuits. https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2025/01/08/chip-lab-photonics-accelerators/

 

January 3–6, 2025 — ECE Florida News: Dalir receives $205 k TotalEnergies + AEC grant to develop long-range acoustic monitoring devices for CO₂-storage wells.
https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2025/01/03/dalir-receives-funding-to-develop-next-generation-oilwell-monitoring-devices/
https://fgbn.org/florida-georgia-biotech-news/2025/01/06/dalir-receives-funding-to-develop-next-generation-oilwell-monitoring-devices/

 

July 3, 2024 — Florida Semiconductor Institute: Midas Immersion Cooling collaborates with Dalir’s Lab to pioneer next-gen immersion cooling for high-power photonics.
https://fsi.institute.ufl.edu/midas-immersion-cooling-collaborates-with-dr-dalirs-lab-at-the-university-of-floridas-semiconductor-institute-to-revolutionize-immersion-cooling-technology/

 

June 3, 2024 — ECE Florida News: Elected Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM).
https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2024/06/03/dalir-fellow-of-iaam/

 

April 30, 2024 — Florida Semiconductor Institute: CHIP Lab integrates machine learning with optical networks in Nature Communications Physics breakthrough. https://fsi.institute.ufl.edu/dr-dalirs-chip-lab-integrates-machine-learning-with-optical-networks/

 

March 22, 2024 — ECE Florida News: Nature Communications Physics paper on OAM-based optical CNN accelerator featured in UF press release. https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2024/03/22/dalir-nature-communications/

 

August 21, 2023 — ECE Florida News: ECE Florida welcomes new faculty members, highlighting Dr. Hamed Dalir’s research on mid-IR photonics, AI accelerators, and integrated lasers. https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2023/08/21/ece-florida-welcomes-four-new-faculty-members/

 

February 16, 2023 — ECE Florida News: Seminar: Hamed Dalir delivers “Next-Generation Optoelectronics for Sensing, Healthcare, Quantum IT, and AI,” outlining innovations in photonic tensor cores, quantum-ready detectors, and on-chip lasers.
https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2023/02/16/seminar-hamed-dalir/

 

December 10, 2020 — Laserfair (China): “新型 VCSEL 激光器或助力 6G 通信发展” — coverage of Dalir’s hexagonal-MTCC VCSEL breakthrough. https://www.laserfair.com/yingyong/202012/10/78197.html