Research

Research focus

MOSAIC research spans the physical-to-intelligent hardware stack. Projects connect devices, measurements, circuits, conversion, architectures, and hardware-aware computation rather than treating these as isolated specialties.

Sensing arrays & physical interfaces

Electronic, optical, event-based, and radiation-aware interfaces that capture physical phenomena.

Pixel, event-based, and radiation-detector arrays
Low-noise analog front ends and readout
Electronic, optical, and multimodal instrumentation

Students working in this areaAdrian Sibiga, Liam McPherson

Signal propagation & transport

How information travels through optical, electrical, electromagnetic, and mixed physical channels.

Bandwidth-limited optical and electrical links
Physical channel modelling and measurement
Predistortion and equalization close to the interface

Students working in this areaNick Wicklund, Ibrahim Kasim, Axel Bondelo

Circuits & interconnect

Wideband circuits, routing, bias, control, and the links that join devices into useful systems.

Broadband analog and mixed-signal circuits
On-chip, board-level, and optical interconnect
Bias, routing, and distributed control

Students working in this areaNick Wicklund, Ibrahim Kasim, Morgan Smilde

Observation, localization & feedback

Measurement and adaptive observation that reveal what a physical system is doing and guide correction.

Calibration and closed-loop measurement
Localization, tracking, and sensing feedback
Monitoring whether a correction remains valid

Students working in this areaAdrian Sibiga, Liam McPherson, Miles Stillie

FPGA, ASIC & silicon realization

Physical realization of circuits, algorithms, control, and acceleration in custom and reconfigurable hardware.

Mixed-signal ASIC design and verification
FPGA accelerators and reconfigurable systems
Hardware implementation of control and inference

Students working in this areaJonathan Levine, Aaron Yu, Jesse Levine, Adrian Sibiga

Photonics & optoelectronics

Optical devices, microrings, light-based sensing, and photonic-electronic communication interfaces.

Microring modelling, control, and predistortion
Optical transmitters, receivers, and interconnect
Light–matter interfaces and photonic sensing

Students working in this areaNick Wicklund, Morgan Smilde

Architectures & platforms

Parallel accelerators, tiled fabrics, and larger organizations of circuit and computational blocks.

Parallel and tiled accelerator architectures
RISC-V and embedded inference platforms
Modular FPGA and ASIC hardware fabrics

Students working in this areaJonathan Levine, Aaron Yu, Jesse Levine

Intelligence & algorithms

Neural, neuromorphic, and adaptive methods designed with hardware and physical constraints in view.

Spiking, binarized, and hardware-efficient neural systems
Approximate computation for constrained hardware
AI-assisted circuit design, verification, and control

Students working in this areaJonathan Levine, Aaron Yu, Jesse Levine, Liam McPherson, Axel Bondelo

Analog-to-digital conversion

Sampling, timing, quantization, and the translation of continuous physical signals into digital representations.

Time-interleaved and VCO-based data converters
Calibration of sampling, timing, and quantization
Photonic, electronic, and time-domain conversion

Students working in this areaDeniz Sulutas, Kevin Hu, Miles Stillie, Morgan Smilde