Dr. Youngblood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to Pitt, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford where he developed phase-change optical systems and photonic architectures for non-von Neumann computing. Dr. Youngblood is a recipient of the NSF CAREER and AFOSR Young Investigator awards and leads the Youngblood Photonics Lab at Pitt, whose goal is to develop reconfigurable photonic materials and devices for optical computing, sensing, and communications. This work minimizes computing latency and energy consumption while using rad-hard optical materials which has applications for space exploration and artificially intelligent systems.
