Takahiro Nambara

Takahiro completed his MS in Applied Physics from Nagoya University in Japan. While a visiting scientist in the Synthetic Neurobiology group, he worked on new fast fabrication methods for sub-micron structures, and evaluating their optical properties. He is good at optical design of cameras, microscopes, and heads-up displays, and has many patents on these topics.

Publications

QuATON: quantization aware training of optical neurons

Optics Express | 2026

Kariyawasam H, Hettiarachchi R, Yang Q, Matlock A, Nambara T, Kusaka H, Kunai Y, So PTC, Boyden ES, Wadduwage DN (2026) QuATON: quantization aware training of optical neurons, Optics Express 34(1):1-14.