Bassem Tossoun is a Principal Research Scientist in the Large Scale Integrated Photonics (LSIP) Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 2019, advised by Professor Andreas Beling and co-advised by Professor Joe Campbell. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he graduated from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo in 2014 with a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering. His master's thesis project was under the supervision of Professor John Bowers at UC Santa Barbara and Professor Dennis Derickson at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. His research interests include the exploration of integrated photonics for next-generation computing accelerators in high-performance computing systems and for artificial intelligence (AI) on the edge. He has published papers at several journal and conference venues, including Nature Communications, IEEE, SPIE, and Optica Publishing Group. Towards a broader community, he has given five invited talks at major international conferences, serves as Lead Associate Editor at Optica/IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, and currently holds seven U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the McVey Fellowship (2018) and a best intern project award at Hewlett Packard Labs (2018). He is currently the principal investigator at Hewlett Packard Labs on a project funded by DARPA to develop a scalable and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing accelerator on a heterogeneous III-V on silicon photonic platform.