AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
IMEC
AKHETONICS
DGIST
KAIST
AUTH
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), GR is the largest university in Greece, established in 1925. Today the main campus extends over an area of 429 metric acres in the heart of the city and comprises 10 Faculties organized in a total number of 40 Schools that cover the full range of scientific disciplines. More than 70.000 undergraduate and 8.000 postgraduate students are working towards their degrees at AUTH, while more than 2.200 Faculty members are employed as Teaching and Research personnel.
AUTH will participate in HAETAE with the research group of:
The Wireless and Photonic Systems and Networks (WinPhoS) research group, established in 2016 at AUTH’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (C.I.R.I.) as a common facility of AUTH’s Departments of Physics, Informatics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. The main research activities of WinPhoS extend along a broad area in the field of photonics and wireless technologies, with the main focus being integrated photonics and plasmonics, optical interconnects converged Fiber-Wireless networks for 5G networks, 5G Fronthauling, οptical RAM architectures and network-on-chip technologies and architectures. It is a fully equipped laboratory with a range of high-speed test and measurement systems for the characterization of passive and active photonic devices at bit rates up to 100 Gbps. WinPhoS has coordinated numerous projects in the areas of integrated photonics, optical interconnects and 5G networks (MOICANA, ICT-STREAMS ICT-PLASMOFAB and 5GPHOS), while it participates in several other (PLACMOS, QAMELEON, L3MATRIX, MASSTART). WinPhoS has also participated in several FP7 research projects (PLATON, RAMPLAS, MIRAGE, COMANDER and PHOXTROT), coordinating the three of them (COMANDER, RAMPLAS and PLATON).
AUTH webpage: http://winphos.web.auth.gr/
Contacts:
Prof. Nikolaos Pleros, email:
Dr. Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, email:
Dr. Apostolos Tsakyridis, email:
IMEC
Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum (IMEC) is contributing to the European research project HAETAE, which aims to push the boundaries of photonic integration for next-generation communication systems. As part of this initiative, IMEC is applying its expertise in micro-transfer printing (µTP) of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) onto silicon, enabling highly efficient and scalable photonic circuits. Additionally, the institute is at the forefront of developing high-speed electro-absorption modulators (EAMs) to support future ultra-fast data transmission.
With a rich history dating back to its founding in 1984, IMEC has been a global leader in semiconductor and nanotechnology research, consistently driving innovation in photonics, AI, and quantum computing. Over the decades, it has played a pivotal role in advancing silicon photonics, bridging the gap between academia and industry to enable breakthrough technologies. Through its work in HAETAE, IMEC continues this legacy, accelerating the development of energy-efficient, high-speed photonic processors for nexc generation computing systems.
IMEC webpage: https://www.imec-int.com/
Contact:
Prof. Gunther Roelkens, email:
AKHETONICS
AKHETONICS is creating the world’s first all-optical XPU, a cross-domain processor for general-purpose, ultra-low power, high-performance computing and AI. With our in-house developed photonic design automation tools and all-optical control flow we created a new platform, beyond the typical von Neumann architecture, designed specifically for photonics. We do this by uniquely combining the best of optical digital computing with optical analog computing and optical quantum computing. Furthermore, our photonic processors are created using a purely European supply chain, from fabrication to packaging, allowing for an unmatched security in the high-performance computing domain.
AKHETONICS webpage: https://www.akhetonics.com/
Contact:
Dr. Leonardo Del Bino, email:
DGIST
During the past 10 years, DGIST has become exceptionally innovative and made remarkable advancements under the notion of becoming ‘a world-leading convergence research university’. DGIST has taken various steps such as: establishing innovative undergraduate curriculum and six graduate curricula focused on convergence specialized fields, constructing its campus with cutting-edge facilities on the massive secured area of 670,000m2 under the Campus Master Plan, and achieving remarkable research results. DGIST has been able to make vast advancements despite numerous challenges along the way in the 10 years since its founding. This progress has been made possible thanks to the exclusive support of the government, the sincerest trust of our chairman and committee members of the DGIST Board of Trustee, and the efforts and devotion of our faculty, students, researchers, and staff. DGIST started with a research institution in 2004 and grew into a research-oriented university by opening graduate program in 2011, and the undergraduate program in March, 2014. DGIST focuses its research and education in six areas, such as Emerging Materials Science, Information & Communication Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Brain Science, and New Biology. The six areas are called ‘MIREBraiN’: M for Materials, I for Information & Communication, R for Robotics, E for Energy, B for Brain, and N for New Biology. The pronunciation of MIRE in Korean is the same to that of ‘future.’ DGIST’s vision, which was declared in May 2012, is to become a world-leading convergence research university by nurturing the global leaders of knowledge creation and creating future convergence technology.
DGIST webpage: https://www.dgist.ac.kr/
Contact:
Prof. Sangyoon Han, email:
KAIST
Formerly known as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST was South Korea’s first research-oriented science and engineering institution when it was founded in 1971. For such as young university, KAIST’s standing is growing rapidly: it is widely acknowledged as the best university in Korea and has been named the most innovative university in the Asia-Pacific region. One of its stand-out research projects of recent years saw researchers develop an electric transport system, where vehicles get power from cables underneath the road via non-contact magnetic charging. It’s an example of how KAIST is leading the field in developing new technologies that might tackle world problems such as energy consumption and congestion in cities. Around 10,000 full-time students attend KAIST, split between 4,000 undergraduates and 6,000 postgraduates. Science, engineering and technology are the school’s main focuses, though the university has branched out in recent years and is now internationally accredited in business education too. It has also adopted dual degree programs with leading world universities such as Carnegie Mellon in the United States and the Technical University of Berlin, and these offer its students diverse educational opportunities. The university’s main campus is in Daedeok Science Town in the city of Daejeon, 150 kilometers south of the South Korean capital, Seoul. There’s also another campus in Seoul itself, which is home to the business school as well as the graduate schools of finance, management and information and media management. Most lectures and research activities take place on the Daejeon main campus, which is also where most students live. There is a total of 29 dormitories on the outskirts of the Daedeok campus, strictly segregated along gender lines. There are also apartments for married students outside the campus. Extracurricular activities on campus may not be a priority at KAIST, although there are clubs and societies for students, and the university holds regular arts events including opera, drama, pop concerts, dance and classical recitals.
KAIST webpage: https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/
Contact:
Prof. Kyoungsik Yu, email.: