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Updated on June 24, 2025

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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, 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/2024

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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/

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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/

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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/2023

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August 21, 2023 — ECE Florida News: ECE Florida Welcomes Some New Faculty Members — UF announced the arrival of Dr Hamed Dalir, highlighting 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/ news.ece.ufl.edu

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

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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

 

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