Dr Javier Porte Parera
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Institute of Photonics
Personal statement
I received my PhD degree in Physics from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) in 2015. There I studied the nonlinear dynamics of delay-coupled semiconductor lasers with application to secure communications. From 2016 to 2018 I was postdoctoral researcher with the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) working on external optical coupling of quantum-dot microlasers for nanophotonic applications. From 2019 to 2022 I was Marie-Curie fellow at the FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon (France) working on photonic spatio-temporal neural networks and additive manufacturing of CMOS compatible integrated photonic components. In 2022 I was awarded a Chancellor's Fellowship by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (Scotland, UK). As a result of this award I started working from November 2022 as a Lecturer at Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics. My current research interests cover complex laser dynamics, hybrid optoelectronic integration and photonic information processing.
Publications
- A spiking photonic neural network of 40 000 neurons, trained with latency and rank-order coding for leveraging sparsity
- Talukder Ria, Skalli Anas, Porte Xavier, Thorpe Simon, Brunner Daniel
- Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering Vol 5 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/addee7
- Roadmap on neuromorphic photonics : neuromorphic photonics with vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)
- Brunner Daniel, Shastri Bhavin J, Robertson Joshua, Porte Xavier, Hurtado Antonio
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.07917
- Identifying ordinal similarities at different temporal scales
- Zunino Luciano, Porte Xavier, Soriano Miguel C
- Entropy Vol 26 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/e26121016
- Chaotic Microcavities for Integrated Photonic Reservoir Computing
- Wilson Matthew, Smith Jack, Strain Michael, Porte Xavier
- Scottish Conference in Optical Technologies (2024)
- Ultrafast optoelectronic hardware for neural network applications
- Kanwal Aisha, Johnstone Graeme, Strain Michael, Porte Xavier
- Scottish Conference in Optical Technologies (2024)
- Deterministic and stochastic coarsening control in optically addressed spatial light modulators subject to optical feedback
- Semenov Vladimir V, Porte Xavier, Larger Laurent, Brunner Daniel
- Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Vol 108 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.024307
Professional Activities
- PhD thesis committee
- Examiner
- 13/1/2025
- PhD thesis committee
- Examiner
- 20/5/2024
- PhD thesis committee
- Examiner
- 29/11/2023
- 3D photonic interconnects for scalable neural networks
- Invited speaker
- 12/11/2023
- International Conference on Neuromorphic, Natural and Physical Computing
- Chair
- 23/10/2023
- Large-area semiconductor lasers for neural network computing
- Speaker
- 29/9/2023
Projects
- Photo-Chemical Adaptive 3D Systems for Next Generation Neuromorphic Computing
- Porte Parera, Javier (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2028
- SPIKING PHOTONIC-ELECTRONIC IC FOR QUICK AND EFFICIENT PROCESSING (SPIKEPro)
- Hurtado, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator) Porte Parera, Javier (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 29-Jan-2028
- Enabling efficient, high-speed spatio-temporal neuromorphic computing using excitable large-area lasers
- Porte Parera, Javier (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- Fraunhofer UK Research Limited: Studentship Agreement | Wilson, Matthew
- Porte Parera, Javier (Principal Investigator) Strain, Michael (Co-investigator) Wilson, Matthew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
Contact
Dr
Javier
Porte Parera
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Institute of Photonics
Email: javier.porte-parera@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4670