Christoph Lohrmann
Senior Software Engineer at Q.ANT
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Dr. Christoph Lohrmann is Senior Software Developer at Q.ANT, a deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processors that compute with light to enable energy-efficient AI and high-performance computing. At Q.ANT, he contributes to the development and application of next-generation computing architectures based on photonics and advanced algorithms.
Previously, he conducted research in computational physics and complex systems, focusing on the behavior of self-propelled agents, bio-inspired motion strategies, and reinforcement learning approaches for micro-robotics.
Christoph Lohrmann studied physics at the University of Stuttgart, where he developed a strong interdisciplinary background bridging physics, machine learning, and emerging computing technologies.
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Photonic Computing: Programming a New Class of AI Accelerators (incl. Live Coding)
Photonic computing is an emerging compute paradigm benefitting AI workloads that are increasingly constrained by the physical limits of classical digital hardware. By performing basic mathematical operations natively with light, photonic accelerators offer new approaches to efficiency and scalability for AI and high-performance computing.
This deep dive session provides a practical introduction to photonic computing from a developer’s perspective. We start by explaining the core principles behind photonic computation and how they differ from classical digital computing. The session then focuses on the architecture of Q.ANT’s photonic co-processor and its integration in standard x86 systems.
Beyond theory, the talk explores how developers program such hardware. We will walk through the Q.ANT software stack, explain how workloads are mapped to photonic accelerators and demonstrate a concrete programming example in a live coding session.
The goal of this talk is to give developers an understanding of photonic computing, show what is already possible today and outline how they can start experimenting with this technology themselves.
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