High-Speed CMOS Photonics Interconnects
Technical Advisory Board
Lightwire is please to have an outstanding technical advisory board. Its members include some of the leading experts in silicon photonics and optoelectronics. Key members include:
Professor Thomas L. Koch, Ph.D., Lehigh University
Thomas L. Koch is a leading authority on photonic integration and silicon photonics. He is a joint Professor in ECE and Physics at Lehigh University, and holds the Daniel E. '39 and Patricia M. Smith Endowed Chair of Director, Center for Optical Technologies. Previously he held Vice President positions at SDL, Lucent, and most recently at Agere Systems. Thomas received his AB in Physics from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech in 1982 working under Prof. Amnon Yariv. After joining Bell Labs Research in that year, he made extensive contributions to semiconductor laser and photonic integration technologies that have enabled key advances in high-capacity optical fiber communications. Prof. Koch has chaired numerous major international conferences, and authored more than 300 conference and journal publications, book chapters, and books. He has received the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, the William Streifer Award for Scientific Achievement and the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE LEOS, is a Fellow of Bell Labs, the OSA, and the IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Professor Kwong, Ph.D., Executive Director,
Institute of MicroElectronics, Singapore
Prof. Kwong is the Executive Director of Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore, an adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and Distinguished Scientist at Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. He was Earl N. and Margaret Bransfield Endowed Professor at The University of Texas at Austin from 1985-2006 and Temasek Professor of National University of Singapore from 2000-2004. Prof. Kwong is the author of more than 820 referred archival publications (460 journal and 360 conference proceedings), has presented more than 62 invited talks at international conferences, has edited more than 12 books/chapters, and has been awarded with more than 25 U.S. patents. Professor Kwong was the founder of Rapro Technology Inc. in 1986, Micro Integration Corporation in 1988 and ASECTO Inc. in 2001. He has been consultant to government research labs, semiconductor IC manufacturers, and materials and equipment suppliers in US and overseas. His current areas of research interests include Si/Ge narrow-wire based CMOS nano devices and applications, Si-based ultra-sensitive biosensors and lab-on-chip, and Si micro- and nano-photonics technology. More than 52 students received their Ph.D. degrees under his supervision.
As Executive Director of IME, Professor Kwong develops and implements IME's multidisciplinary and multifaceted R&D strategy and research programs which are substantially driven by commercial applications as the end goal. He leads interdisciplinary teams of semiconductor processing, bio-science, RF and mixed-signal IC design, advanced packaging and MEMS technologies, together with strategic industrial partners, to develop leading-edge disruptive technologies for photonics, nanoelectronics and bioelectronics applications.