EEE776 Optical Neural Network
Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate School of AI, UNIST
Fall 2026 | Graduate Course
Class: 106-T201 | Monday & Wednesday, 09:00 - 10:15 AM
Instructor: Prof. Minho Choi
Office: Room 801-2, Engineering Building 3 (Bldg. 106)
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Schedule
Aug 31 | Lecture 1: Orientation
Sep 2 | Lecture 2: Introduction (Why ONN arises?)
Sep 7 | Lecture 3: Analog Computing & Optical Computing
Sep 9 | Lecture 4: Optical Computing & History of Free-space Optical Computing
Sep 14 | Lecture 5: All-optical neural network
Sep 16 | Lecture 6: Team competition A
Sep 21 | Lecture 7: Team competition B
Sep 23 | Lecture 8: Fourier optical neural network
Sep 30 | Lecture 9: Meta-optical neural network
Oct 7 | Lecture 10: Team competition C
Oct 12 | Lecture 11: Nonlinear activation
Oct 14 | Lecture 12: Knowledge distillation
Midterm week | Final presentation announcement
Oct 26 | Lecture 13: Reconfigurable optics
Team competition A results (Sep 16)
1st place +3
Team PMT (1L: 81.14, 2L: 83.4, 3L: 84.85, total: 249.39)
2nd place +2
Team Grench (1L: 77.86, 2L: 85.58, 3L: 84.08, total: 247.52)
3rd place +1
Team Strawberry (1L: 78.42, 2L: 83.63, 3L: 85.23, total: 247.28)
1st place (during class) +1
Team Strawberry (1L: 76.79, 2L: 83.09, 3L: 85.03, total: 244.91)
Team competition B results (Sep 21)
1st place +3
Team Coherent (grid: 56x56, layer number: 3, positions: 30.0/40.0/50.0, learning rate: 0.011, accuracy: 88.52)
2nd place +2
Team Strawberry (grid: 70x70, layer number: 2, positions: 27.41/39.64, learning rate: 0.01815, accuracy: 86.71)
3rd place +1
Team NOEL (grid: 56x56, layer number: 3, positions: 25.0/45.0/65.0, learning rate: 0.03, accuracy: 86.5)
Team competition C results (Oct 7)
1st place +3
Team FLASH (loss: 0.000028724)
2nd place +2
Team OptoMech (loss: 0.000028788)
