Bakhrom Oripov

Bakhrom Oripov is a Research Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, affiliated with the Quantum Nanophotonics Group, and a Researcher at the Applied Physics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado.

• B.S. in Physics, Bogazici University, 2012
• Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, University of Maryland, 2020

His research focuses on Superconducting Single-Photon Detector Arrays, Superconducting Electronics, and Neuromorphic Hardware, with applications in UV astronomy, bio-optical devices, and energy-efficient AI. He develops scalable readout architectures for mega-pixel superconducting nanowire arrays and explores general training techniques for hardware neural networks.

Recent publications highlight advancements in thermally coupled imager designs and gradient descent methods without backpropagation, emphasizing low-energy data routing and bio-inspired hardware scalability. His work has been featured in Nature and Applied Physics Letters as a Cover of the Issue and Featured Article.