Darius Bunandar

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
30 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Darius Bunandar is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Darius Bunandar has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Darius Bunandar's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (14 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (12 papers). Darius Bunandar is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (14 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (12 papers). Darius Bunandar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Japan. Darius Bunandar's co-authors include Dirk Englund, Nicholas C. Harris, Tom Baehr‐Jones, Michael Hochberg, Mihika Prabhu, Jacob Mower, Gregory R. Steinbrecher, Franco N. C. Wong, Changchen Chen and Seth Lloyd and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Darius Bunandar

24 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A MoTe₂-based light-emitting diode and photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits.

2017 374 citations Darius Bunandar, Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Quantum transport simulations in a programmable nanophotonic processor

2017 327 citations Nicholas C. Harris, Gregory R. Steinbrecher et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Single-chip photonic deep neural network with forward-only training

2024 60 citations Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Sludds et al. Nature Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Darius Bunandar United States	13	1.1k	882	369	346	133	30	1.5k
Helge Gehring Germany	13	1.2k 1.1×	891 1.0×	432 1.2×	172 0.5×	170 1.3×	24	1.5k
Mikitaka Itoh Japan	20	1.6k 1.4×	617 0.7×	631 1.7×	168 0.5×	76 0.6×	115	1.9k
Maik Stappers Germany	4	933 0.8×	730 0.8×	213 0.6×	127 0.4×	44 0.3×	5	1.0k
Sajjad Moazeni United States	9	977 0.9×	267 0.3×	385 1.0×	120 0.3×	172 1.3×	37	1.1k
Massimo Borghi Italy	17	868 0.8×	298 0.3×	355 1.0×	370 1.1×	81 0.6×	55	992
Anatol Khilo United States	16	1.5k 1.3×	277 0.3×	707 1.9×	137 0.4×	224 1.7×	70	1.6k
Guangwei Deng China	17	476 0.4×	329 0.4×	695 1.9×	310 0.9×	114 0.9×	81	1.1k
C. Antón Spain	20	793 0.7×	886 1.0×	1.5k 3.9×	331 1.0×	342 2.6×	48	1.9k
S. Ten United States	18	1.0k 0.9×	201 0.2×	421 1.1×	147 0.4×	61 0.5×	55	1.3k
Till J. Weinhold Australia	14	179 0.2×	786 0.9×	717 1.9×	137 0.4×	173 1.3×	31	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Darius Bunandar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Darius Bunandar

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Rao, Satyavolu S. Papa, et al.. (2025). Photonics for sustainable AI. Communications Physics. 8(1).

Baghdadi, Reza, Alexander Sludds, Shashank Gupta, et al.. (2025). Monolithically Integrated Microring Transmitter and Receiver for High-Density 3D Co-Packaged Optics. Tu3J.6–Tu3J.6.

Nair, Lakshmi S., et al.. (2024). A blueprint for precise and fault-tolerant analog neural networks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5098–5098. 4 indexed citations

Bunandar, Darius, et al.. (2024). A case for server-scale photonic connectivity. 290–299. 2 indexed citations

Bandyopadhyay, Saumil, Alexander Sludds, Stefan Krastanov, et al.. (2024). Single-chip photonic deep neural network with forward-only training. Nature Photonics. 18(12). 1335–1343. 60 indexed citations breakdown →

Bunandar, Darius, et al.. (2024). Mirage: An RNS-Based Photonic Accelerator for DNN Training. 73–87. 6 indexed citations

Harris, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). An Electro-Photonic System for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks. ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems. 19(4). 1–31. 35 indexed citations

Bandyopadhyay, Saumil, Alexander Sludds, Stefan Krastanov, et al.. (2023). A Photonic Deep Neural Network Processor on a Single Chip with Optically Accelerated Training. 588. SM2P.2–SM2P.2. 3 indexed citations

Sludds, Alexander, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Zaijun Chen, et al.. (2022). Delocalized photonic deep learning on the internet’s edge. Science. 378(6617). 270–276. 108 indexed citations

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Harris, Nicholas C., Darius Bunandar, Ajay Joshi, Ayon Basumallik, & Robert Turner. (2022). Passage: A Wafer-Scale Programmable Photonic Communication Substrate. 1–26. 13 indexed citations

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Baghdadi, Reza, Michael N. Gould, Shashank Gupta, et al.. (2021). Dual slot-mode NOEM phase shifter. Optics Express. 29(12). 19113–19113. 32 indexed citations

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Govia, Luke C. G., Darius Bunandar, Jie Lin, et al.. (2020). Clifford-group-restricted eavesdroppers in quantum key distribution. Physical review. A. 101(6).

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Lee, Catherine, Darius Bunandar, Zheshen Zhang, et al.. (2019). Large-alphabet encoding for higher-rate quantum key distribution. Optics Express. 27(13). 17539–17539. 25 indexed citations

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Carolan, Jacques, Jonathan P. Olson, Mihika Prabhu, et al.. (2019). Variational Quantum Unsampling on a Programmable Nanophotonic Processor. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 86. FTh3A.3–FTh3A.3.

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Lentine, Anthony L., Hong Cai, Christopher M. Long, et al.. (2018). Metropolitan Quantum Key Distribution with Silicon Photonics. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 48 indexed citations

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Shi, Bin, Nicola Calabretta, Darius Bunandar, Dirk Englund, & K.A. Williams. (2018). WDM Weighted Sum in an 8x8 SOA-Based InP Cross-Connect for Photonic Deep Neural Networks. TU/e Research Portal. 345. 1–3. 3 indexed citations

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Bunandar, Darius, et al.. (2018). Programmable Nanophotonics for Computation. 521. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

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Harris, Nicholas C., Gregory R. Steinbrecher, Mihika Prabhu, et al.. (2017). Quantum transport simulations in a programmable nanophotonic processor. Nature Photonics. 11(7). 447–452. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Catherine, Darius Bunandar, Zheshen Zhang, et al.. (2016). High-rate large-alphabet quantum key distribution over deployed telecom fiber. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FTh3C.7–FTh3C.7. 6 indexed citations

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Bunandar, Darius, et al.. (2011). Measuring emission coordinates in a pulsar-based relativistic positioning system. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(10). 7 indexed citations

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