Experience

Skorpios Technologies, Inc.

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Dec 2017 - May 2022

  Albuquerque, New Mexico Area Led teams on Si photonic chips and systems development

• VP Technology Development

  • Sep 2013 - Nov 2017

  Albuquerque, New Mexico Area Led engineering team on Si photonics platform development.



Oracle Corporation

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consulting Hardware Engineer (Senior Principal)

  • Mar 2010 - Aug 2013

  Greater San Diego Area Joined Oracle as part of the Sun Microsystems acquisition. Led and managed multiple rounds of Oracle's Si photonics tapeouts fabricated by Freescale. Developed a ring resonator based WDM Si photonics platform for ultralow-power and ultrahigh-density optical interconnects for high-performance computer systems. Demonstrated industry-first 40Gb/s Si ring modulators with low Vpp.



Sun Microsystems

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Staff Engineer

  • Mar 2008 - Feb 2010

  Working on optical interconnect for high performance computing systems (HPCS), aiming to connect many CPU cores together as a logically single chip using Si photonic circuits. R&D leader in the government funded project Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communication (UNIC).



Intel

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Transceiver Engineer

  • Jan 2006 - Feb 2008

  Developed 10G LRM and LR ethernet transceivers with SFP+ and X2 form factors. Developed a versatile CSRS test station and a fairly reliable EDC link model.



Luxtera

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Device Engineer

  • Nov 2003 - Dec 2005

  Lead designer in the development of Si-based electronic/photonic integrated circuits (EPIC) for high-speed (40G & 100G) transceiver products. Developed world’s first 10G Si optical modulator manufactured in a CMOS fab (at Freescale). Invented asymmetrically doped reverse-biased lateral PN diodes for high-speed Si modulators; invented an architecture of traveling wave Si optical modulator driven by distributed RF amplifiers.



UCSD

• Research Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Researcher

  • Mar 2003 - Dec 2005

  Co-PI for developing 70 GHz electroabsorption modulators for applications in satellite and radar systems (DARPA funded). Investigated on ultrafast RF spectrum analysis using photonic approach.



Vitesse Semiconductor

• Technical Consultant

  • Apr 2003 - Oct 2003

  Provided technical guidance on the development of 10G InP Mach-Zehnder modulators, including MQW design, high-speed electrode, fabrication process and test setups.



Bell Labs / Agere Systems

• Member of Technical Staff

  • Jan 2001 - Dec 2002

  Lead designer for 10G & 40G InP Mach-Zehnder modulators, developed effective simulation method for segmented traveling-wave optical modulators. Lead designer for 40G EML, worked on minimizing the optical back-reflection and improving the butt-joint etching and regrowth. Co-developed integrated EAMs with SOA, integrated SOA and PIN detector, etc.