Uğur Teğin

Conference selfie with my students
#SPIEOpticsPhotonics

Greetings from San Diego!

It was a pleasure to present my invited talk at the Emerging Topics in AI conference, SPIE Optics + Photonics this week. I shared our recent optical computing architectures.

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Next week at ETAI conference of @spie.org Optics + Photonics, our Lab. of Photonic Techs will be in San Diego with 6 talks and 1 posters. We are excited to share our recent works on Optics for AI and AI for optics!

From Beyoğlu to entrance of Bosphorus. Right side you can see that Hagia Sophia is under restoration

Greetings from Berlin! Today I will be giving an invited talk about our recent studies on optical computing at IEEE Summer Topicals.

Since I am out of town for conferences, my team made a surprise birthday for me previous week. I wasn’t expecting it and it was total surprise for me!

Greetings from Marseille! Today I will be giving an invited talk on our recent studies about optical computing with waveguides at Optica Advanced Photonics Congress

Our students, Yaren and Bahadır, did an amazing job presenting our talks and posters at #CLEOEurope

Next week at #CLEOEurope 2025, our Lab. of Photonic Techs will be in Munich with 3 talks and 2 posters. We are excited to share our recent works on optical computing and ultrafast imaging!

Morning walk at Bosphorus. We completed an 8 km path!

Today at my lab, LPT, we are having fun with dyes

Advanced Photonics Editors-in-Chief recognize the best papers from 2024 Editor-in-Chief Choice Awards honor exceptional articles from the high-impact journal

Our study with EPFL, published in Advanced Photonics, has been selected as the best paper of 2024. spie.org/news/advance...

Thank you very much. Yes, we need more contemporary tasks!

Happy International Day of Light! #lightday2025

Meet @utegin.bsky.social who will take part in ETAI 2025.

Dr. Uğur Teğin, Assistant Professor at Koç University and PI of the Laboratory of Photonic Technologies, specializes in nonlinear optics, optical computing, and ultrafast imaging. He holds a PhD from EPFL and completed a postdoc at Caltech.

Happy to share our latest preprint: “Fiber-based Diffractive Deep Neural Network”! This optical computing system uses a fiber with tunable diffraction that excels in biomedical disease, fashion, and geospatial classification tasks & can perform all-optical computing too! arxiv.org/abs/2502.11885

Photonic neural networks at the edge of spatiotemporal chaos in multimode fibers Optical computing has gained significant attention as a potential solution to the growing computational demands of machine learning, particularly for tasks requiring large-scale data processing and hi...

Paper alert! I am happy to share our recent study on nonlinear photonic neural networks in Nanophotonics! We explore the impact of optical chaos on optical computing with fibers. doi.org/10.1515/nano...

We had a chance to share our recent works on photonic neural networks at #PhotonicsWest @spie.org

Greetings from San Francisco!

We completed the semester for EEE 206 Electromagnetics 🎉

2025 is off to an incredible start! In the first two days of the year, two of our manuscripts have been accepted. Here’s to a productive year ahead! 🎉

2024 is almost over with
- Optica Challenge Prize on Information @optica.bsky.social
- Moving to new lab - LPT 2.0
- 1 paper and 3 under review manuscripts
- 4 new graduate students
- An EIC Pathfinder submission
It was fun and I wish the same from 2025. Happy new year!

He is our Kıtır (eng. Crunch). We adopted him recently.

Last week, we had a chance to visit Birmingham and London. It’s the first time, I have been outside of the airport in UK. We loved the place and people. Hope to visit again soon!

It’s indeed fun to play!

Hello world 🙂