Professor & Co-Founder Volker Sorger speaks on live-TV about the CHIPS BillSpeed read...
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Prof. Sorger receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
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Looking for a Post-doc position? Post-doc position? send your CV to sorger@gwu.edu
PhD. & MS Thesis openings on Machine Intelligence, Photonics, cryptography!
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Professor Volker Sorger’s research team explores and innovates information systems and algorithms including devices and next-generation processing systems. We follow an interdisciplinary approach that draws expertise from a diverse background in science and engineering alike. We answer key fundamental questions in information processing and bridge these with technological prototyping and National Grand Challenges relating to Future-of-AI, Rebooting Computing, Quantum Technologies, Cyber Security, and Materials Genome Initiative. Our capabilities range from innovations in algorithms and information theory, to device and system fabrication and prototyping. Our team is actively engaged in optical science-policy such as the IEEE Rebooting Computing and National Photonic Initiative. We foster a diverse and inclusive community of creative life-long-learners through STEM education, mentoring, and outreach for minority STEM students and beyond.
Volker J. Sorger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Information and AI Lab at the George Washington University. His research areas include opto-electronics, intelligent information processing, AI systems, and cryptography for cyber security. Among his breakthroughs are innovation on novel tensor processor, photonic digital-to-analog converters and photonic RAM, the first micrometer-compact GHz modulator, strainoptronics detectors, novel lasers, and massively-parallel AI processors. For his work, Dr. Sorger received multiple awards among are the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (YIP), the Hegarty Innovation Prize, and the National Academy of Sciences award of the year. Dr. Sorger is an Associate editor for OPTICA and Nanophotonics, held the position of the OSA Division Chair for ‘Photonics and Opto-electronics’ serving at the boards of OSA & SPIE. He is a Fellow of Optica (former OSA) and a Senior Member of IEEE & SPIE. He is a co- founder and President of Optelligence Company. |
Diversity & Inclusion is our Strength
Diverse we are – Our lab is home individuals from over 15 different nations. We believe that creativity is accelerated by diverse ideas. We create opportunities for minority students in engineering, such as via a Nanotechnology Fellows Summer Program. Prof. Sorger mentors the several student chapters and serves as a PI on a Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (AFOSR) project - creating R&D and training opportunities for minority students. We foster a community via outreach activities and train next-generation leaders via acting as facilitators in SPIE's annual student chapter leadership workshops and ‘give-back’ serving on the SPIE Scholarship Committee. Change starts here – we participate in committee’s on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and support the GWU SEAS Center for Women Engineering.
Diverse we are – Our lab is home individuals from over 15 different nations. We believe that creativity is accelerated by diverse ideas. We create opportunities for minority students in engineering, such as via a Nanotechnology Fellows Summer Program. Prof. Sorger mentors the several student chapters and serves as a PI on a Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (AFOSR) project - creating R&D and training opportunities for minority students. We foster a community via outreach activities and train next-generation leaders via acting as facilitators in SPIE's annual student chapter leadership workshops and ‘give-back’ serving on the SPIE Scholarship Committee. Change starts here – we participate in committee’s on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and support the GWU SEAS Center for Women Engineering.