Co-Packaged Optical Transceivers for HPC, Data Centre and AI Applications

11am, 28th July, 2026
O’Reilly LCR, Trinity College Dublin

The CONNECT Centre is delighted to welcome Daniel Kuchta from NVIDIA as part of the CONNECT Visiting Lecturer Series.

As artificial intelligence systems continue to drive unprecedented growth in computing and networking demands, optical interconnect technologies are becoming increasingly important in enabling the next generation of high-performance computing (HPC) and data centre infrastructure.

In this lecture, Daniel Kuchta will provide an overview of the latest developments in co-packaged optical transceiver technologies, including both VCSEL- and silicon photonics-based approaches. He will discuss how these technologies fit within the evolving Ethernet switch and computer I/O landscape and examine their role in supporting the performance, scalability and energy efficiency requirements of modern HPC, data centre and AI systems.

The talk will highlight emerging opportunities and technical challenges in deploying co-packaged optics, with a particular focus on the new demands being created by large-scale AI workloads and next-generation computing architectures.

About the Speaker

Daniel M. Kuchta is a Principal Hardware System Architect at NVIDIA and an IEEE Fellow. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he spent three decades at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he conducted pioneering research on optical interconnect technologies, including high-speed VCSELs, multimode fibre links, parallel optical communications and optics co-packaging.

He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr Kuchta has authored or co-authored more than 145 technical publications and is the inventor or co-inventor of more than 40 patents. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology Best Paper Award and the inaugural IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award, and has served as Technical Program Chair for OFC 2018 and General Chair for OFC 2020.

Hosted by the CONNECT Centre at Trinity College Dublin, this seminar offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of the worlds leading engineers about the innovations shaping the future of global communication networks.