MechE Colloquium with Jeehwan Kim: One Technology to Power Them All: Monolithic 3D for AI, Photonics, XR, and Sensing

Date: Friday, October 9, 2026 Location: 3-270 Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm ET Speaker: Jeehwan Kim Affiliation: Associate Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering Host: Professor George Barbastathis Talk title: One Technology to Power Them All: Monolithic 3D for AI, Photonics, XR, and Sensing Abstract: For more than half a century, semiconductor innovation has focused on making better individual devices. Today, however, the greatest challenge is no longer the device itself, but how diverse technologies are integrated to meet the demands of AI. What if the next semiconductor revolution is not another devic