Optics Industry Insights
Thursday, April 27, 4 - 5:30 pm, pacific time
Location: Virtual@Zoom
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4:00 - 4:05
Welcome and opening remarks
Welcome and opening remarks
Christopher Barsi
4:05- 4:20
Education, workforce development, and hiring in integrated photonics
Education, workforce development, and hiring in integrated photonics
Kevin McComber
4:20 - 4:35
Overview of silicon photonics within Datacenter
Overview of silicon photonics within Datacenter
Vivek Raghunathan
4:35- 4:50
A journey through industry
A journey through industry
Rodolfo Camacho
4:50 - 5:30
Panel discussion/Q&A
Panel discussion/Q&A
Speakers
Kevin McComber
Kevin McComber
Kevin McComber, Ph.D., is the CEO of Spark Photonics, an integrated photonics design firm, and he serves as the executive director of the Spark Photonics Foundation, a nonprofit STEM education and outreach organization. McComber earned a doctorate in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rodolfo Camacho
Rodolfo Camacho
Dr. Rodolfo Camacho-Aguilera is an engineer with multiple business hats. Former engineer at Intel, and VP of Program Management and Operations at Luminous Computing. Currently, he is an EPM for HWT at Apple. He has worked with large and small companies to integrate innovative solutions in silicon photonics, displays and optical sensors. He received his PhD from MIT in materials science and engineering, and BS/MS from Georgia Tech.
Vivek Raghunathan
Vivek Raghunathan
Dr. Vivek Raghunathan is a Co-founder and CTO of Xscape Photonics. Vivek has over 15 years of experience in silicon photonics. He was a Sr. Principal Engineer, Product Architect and Program Leader for Integrated Silicon Photonics at Broadcom driving key core technology development required to co-package optics with switches and demonstrated industry’s first 25.6T Ethernet switch co-packaged with silicon photonics chiplets. Prior to joining Broadcom, he was a Principal Engineer at Rockley Photonics where he led silicon photonics product integration for their data-com product line. He started his career at Intel where he led next generation GPU to HBM interconnect technology development and the commercialization of their first Silicon-photonics-based transceivers. He received his PhD from MIT in Material Science and Engineering.
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