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News Highlights Featuring US
Updated on June 24, 2025
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.
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/2023
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
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/
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