Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

Thomas Van Vaerenbergh received his PhD degree in photonics from Ghent University in 2014. He was awarded the scientific prize Alcatel-Lucent Bell/FWO for his PhD thesis on all-optical spiking neurons in silicon photonics.

In 2014, he joined the Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab in Hewlett Packard Labs, part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), in Palo Alto, California.  Since 2019, he is based in HPE Belgium and uses his large network of academic and industrial partners to expand HPE’s research activities related to photonics and AI in the EMEA region (including as HPE Belgium’s research lead for the Horizon Europe projects NEUROPULS, GATEPOST, Q-ONE and SPIKEPro).

His main research interests include analog photonic and electronic accelerators for combinatorial optimization and AI workloads, and inverse design of photonic devices and circuits based on physics-informed machine learning.

Hewlett-Packard Labs (HPE)
Expertise in neuromorphic computing architectures.