Description
The goal of this project consists of finding and understanding novel designs for quantum and classical photonic setups using artificial intelligence (AI) methods to assist us. The AI methods we want to focus on are based on logic AI, an AI paradigm that has powered remarkable discoveries recently, but that is significantly less explored than other AI paradigms such as machine learning.The applications of such setups are diverse: processing devices, telecommunications, or metrology. These applications are cutting-edge technology; in many cases, only proof-of-concept hardware has been made. Therefore, although the research we plan to develop is based on well-established fields (photonics, information processing, communication, and AI), the advances that a mixture of these fields can power on are still being determined, as this is a highly interdisciplinary project.
We expect to provide an excellent theoretical and experimental trial field to explore the complementarity of these scientific disciplines with an ambitious goal: discovering a new way to design photonic hardware using AI. Our team is composed of two top research groups and institutions: the quantum computing group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), as experts in AI, quantum computing, and high-performance computing, and the Optoelectronics group at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO), as experts in photonic hardware for quantum and classical applications.
