Farshid Ashtiani

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 566 citations indexed

About

Farshid Ashtiani is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Farshid Ashtiani has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 566 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Farshid Ashtiani's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (19 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (12 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (9 papers). Farshid Ashtiani is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (19 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (12 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (9 papers). Farshid Ashtiani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Finland. Farshid Ashtiani's co-authors include Firooz Aflatouni, Alexander J. Geers, Vahid Nikkhah, Nader Engheta, Brian Edwards, S. J. Ben Yoo, Andrea Blanco‐Redondo, Daniel Pérez, Logan Su and Yang Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Photonics.

In The Last Decade

Farshid Ashtiani

16 papers receiving 516 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. An on-chip photonic deep neural network for image classification
    2022 397 citations Farshid Ashtiani, Alexander J. Geers et al. Nature profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Farshid Ashtiani United States 6 470 362 114 36 32 23 566
Bohan Li United States 9 471 1.0× 359 1.0× 236 2.1× 42 1.2× 45 1.4× 17 673
Wenchan Dong China 11 494 1.1× 349 1.0× 116 1.0× 32 0.9× 14 0.4× 23 589
Alexander J. Geers United States 4 351 0.7× 318 0.9× 46 0.4× 29 0.8× 14 0.4× 6 425
Tingzhao Fu China 7 311 0.7× 259 0.7× 69 0.6× 21 0.6× 26 0.8× 22 377
Yujun Zhao China 6 261 0.6× 277 0.8× 43 0.4× 20 0.6× 19 0.6× 11 386
Ying Zuo China 10 412 0.9× 318 0.9× 175 1.5× 71 2.0× 25 0.8× 27 651
Lingxiao Wan Singapore 7 281 0.6× 302 0.8× 125 1.1× 32 0.9× 16 0.5× 13 431
Shi-Yuan Ma United States 4 259 0.6× 265 0.7× 36 0.3× 20 0.6× 25 0.8× 8 346
Yuyao Huang China 9 262 0.6× 234 0.6× 34 0.3× 19 0.5× 22 0.7× 18 339

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Fields of papers citing papers by Farshid Ashtiani

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Farshid Ashtiani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Farshid Ashtiani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Farshid Ashtiani based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Farshid Ashtiani. Farshid Ashtiani is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ashtiani, Farshid, et al.. (2025). A programmable platform for photonic topological insulators. Nanophotonics. 14(3). 367–373.
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Izhar, Izhar, Yang Deng, Zichen Tang, et al.. (2025). Wideband, Efficient AlScN-Si Acousto-Optic Modulator Integrated on a Commercially Available Silicon Photonics Process. ACS Photonics. 12(5). 2356–2363. 2 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid, et al.. (2024). Programmable integrated photonics for topological Hamiltonians. Nature Communications. 15(1). 629–629. 25 indexed citations
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Nikkhah, Vahid, et al.. (2024). Inverse-designed low-index-contrast structures on a silicon photonics platform for vector–matrix multiplication. Nature Photonics. 18(5). 501–508. 41 indexed citations
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Stern, Brian, Kwangwoong Kim, Robert Borkowski, et al.. (2024). Rapid wavelength measurements with a silicon photonic wavemeter. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid. (2024). Universal Optical Logic Gates on a Programmable Silicon Photonic Platform. W3B.3–W3B.3. 1 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid. (2024). Programmable photonic latch memory. Optics Express. 33(2). 3501–3501. 1 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid, Stefano Grillanda, David T. Neilson, et al.. (2023). A surface-normal photodetector as nonlinear activation function in diffractive optical neural networks. APL Photonics. 8(12). 2 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid, Alexander J. Geers, & Firooz Aflatouni. (2023). Direct image classification using an on-chip photonic deep neural network. 36–36. 1 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid, Alexander J. Geers, & Firooz Aflatouni. (2022). An on-chip photonic deep neural network for image classification. Nature. 606(7914). 501–506. 397 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Kailu, Alexander D. White, Farshid Ashtiani, et al.. (2021). Inverse-designed optical link for chip-to-chip communication. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 7. SM4C.4–SM4C.4. 1 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid & Firooz Aflatouni. (2021). Coherent Multilayer Photonic Nanoantenna Array with off-Aperture Phase Adjustment. ACS Photonics. 8(12). 3433–3439. 1 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid & Firooz Aflatouni. (2020). Optical Beam Steering Using an NxN Phased Array with 2N Phase Shifters. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. SM1O.1–SM1O.1. 1 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid, et al.. (2019). Single-chip nanophotonic near-field imager. Optica. 6(10). 1255–1255. 5 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid, et al.. (2018). High-Resolution Optical Frequency Synthesis Using an Integrated Electro-Optical Phase-Locked Loop. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 66(12). 5922–5932. 8 indexed citations
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Ashtiani, Farshid, et al.. (2018). Towards Integrated Wideband High Resolution Optical Synthesizers. 416. 1316–1319. 2 indexed citations

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