Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

ReDON: Recurrent Diffractive Optical Neural Processor with Reconfigurable Self-Modulated Nonlinearity

Diffractive optical neural networks (DONNs) have demonstrated unparalleled energy efficiency and parallelism by processing information directly in the optical domain. However, their computational expressivity is constrained by static, passive diffractive phase masks that lack eff...

Somatic, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Comorbidities in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Narrative Review

Background/Objectives: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is currently singularly described as a behaviourally defined neurodevelopmental diagnosis with symptoms affecting social communication and social understanding alongside the presence of restricted patterns of behaviour. Wide,...

SKYLIGHT: A Scalable Hundred-Channel 3D Photonic In-Memory Tensor Core Architecture for Real-time AI Inference

The growing computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) are challenging conventional electronics, making photonic computing a promising alternative. However, existing photonic architectures face fundamental scalability and reliability barriers. This paper introduces SKY...

Adaptive drop-deployable visible light communication-based underwater sensing probe

Covering under 0.1% of the ocean’s surface, coral reefs support about 30% of all marine life. Nevertheless, this fragile ecosystem is experiencing an extinction threat due to overexploitation and anthropogenically driven pressure. High-frequency and widespread observations are es...

A game-theoretic attack-defense framework for the study of network resilience

The rapid evolution of communication technologies and the Internet of Things has enhanced system interconnectivity, allowing localized disruptions to cascade into failures. Many such breakdowns are not purely accidental but emerge from intentional countermeasures that influence o...