Exploiting light propagation is an environmentally friendly strategy for accelerating computational tasks at a large scale, including combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Photonic devices may be the backbone of the new generation of computing hardware. We will briefly review some of our experiments for applications including Ising machines, security, and classification tasks.

Holding a PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Lyon 3, I worked as an engineer at King’s College London and was a master’s director at the École nationale des chartes before joining the ALMAnaCH team at the Inria center in Paris in 2023, where I am now a permanent researcher. I am a founding member and co-editor of HTR United, an international catalog for training AI in handwriting recognition.