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Tom Baer, Executive Director, Stanford Photonics Research Center
Tom Baer is the Executive Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center at Stanford University and co-founder of Arcturus Bioscience, Inc. which he established in 1996. He served as the company's Chairman and CEO until January 2005. Dr. Baer has been a pioneer in many areas of biotechnology, laser development, and laser applications, and is listed as an inventor on over 50 patents in these areas. He graduated with a BA degree in Physics from Lawrence University and received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Atomic Physics from the University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of both The American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Optical Society of America. |
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Vince Barich, Operations Manager, Precision Optics and Assemblies, Electronic Measurements Group, Agilent Technologies
Vince Barich is the operations manager for Agilent’s Precision Optics and Assemblies business. He was instrumental in opening Agilent's internal optics capability to the broader market, capitalizing on the technical strengths of Agilent’s interferometry business. His work experience includes the full spectrum of business management, including research and development, marketing, sales, human resources, finance and manufacturing operations. Before joining Agilent/Hewlett Packard, Mr. Barich worked as a chemist specializing in environmental aquatic systems at SRI International, Menlo Park, California. He earned a B.S. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and a MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. |
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Conrad Burke, President and CEO, Innovalight, Inc.
Conrad Burke is President and CEO of Innovalight, Inc., a young solar energy company based in Sunnyvale, California. His career has spanned venture capital, research, product management, marketing, sales and general management in renewable energy, semiconductors and the IT industry. He has deep international experience having lived in and run operations in the US, Germany, UK and Japan. Mr. Burke has a M.S. in Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, a B.S. from University College, Dublin, Ireland and he has also attended The London Business School. He was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum at the 2006 annual event in Davos, Switzerland. |
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Barbara A. Paldus, CEO, Skymoon Ventures
Barbara (Barb) Paldus was most recently the CTO of Picarro, a company she founded in 1998. At Picarro, she was responsible for technology strategy, research, and business development, which led to a solid-state Cyan laser product in 2003 and cavity ring-down spectroscopy products in 2004. Barb is currently a partner at Skymoon Ventures. Dr. Paldus received both her Ph.D. (1998) and M.S.E.E. (1994) degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and her B.S. (1993) in electrical engineering/applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo. |
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Mario J. Paniccia, Intel Fellow, Corporate Technology Group, Director, Photonics Technology Lab, INTEL CORPORATION
Mario J. Paniccia is an Intel Fellow and director of the Photonics Technology Lab.
He joined Intel in 1995 as a lead researcher developing a novel optical testing technology for probing transistor timing in microprocessors. Today this optical testing technology is the standard in the industry. During his tenure at Intel he also served as a senior manager in the Intel Research organization focused on developing technologies in the areas of optical clocking, optical interconnects and optical communications. He currently directs a group in the area of Silicon Photonics. The team is focused on developing silicon-based photonic building blocks for future use in enterprise and data center communications. His team has pioneered activities in silicon photonics that have led to the development of the first silicon modulator with bandwidth greater than 1GHz in 2004, the first continuous wave silicon laser breakthrough in 2005 and the first electrically pumped hybrid silicon laser in 2006 in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara. Scientific American named Dr. Paniccia one of 2004’s top 50 researchers for leading his team’s work in the area of silicon photonics. He has received two Intel Achievement Awards, has published more than 47 papers, including three book chapters, and has more than 67 patents issued or pending. Dr. Paniccia earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1988 from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Ph.D. in solid state physics from Purdue University in 1994. |
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Albert Polman, Professor, FOM Institute AMOLF
Albert Polman obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 1989. He was a post-doctoral researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories until 1991 and then became group leader at the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2003 he spent a sabbatical year at CALTECH. Since 2005 he also serves as director of AMOLF. Dr. Polman is associated with the University of Utrecht as a professor of nanophotonics. His research interests are energy transfer in photonic nanostructures, plasmonics, microcavities, rare earth ions, silicon nanostructures and photovoltaics. Dr. Polman specializes in studies at the interface between optical physics and materials science, and has regularly demonstrated transfer of knowledge to applied concepts. |
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Arati Prabhakar, General Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Arati Prabhakar joined U.S. Venture Partners in 2001 after 15 years of working with world-class engineers and scientists across many fields to brew new technologies. At USVP, her focus is fabless semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing opportunities. Dr. Prabhakar was a program manager and then director of the Microelectronics Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1986 to 1993. At DARPA, she supported R&D in company and university labs in semiconductor manufacturing, imaging, optoelectronics and nanoelectronics. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Dr. Prabhakar Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she led the 3,000 person staff until 1997. She then joined Raychem as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. She was subsequently Vice President and then President of Interval Research Corporation. Dr. Prabhakar began her career as a Congressional fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. She received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. Arati is a Fellow of the IEEE. |
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David Reitze, Professor of Physics, University of Florida
David Reitze received an undergraduate degree in physics from Northwestern University in 1983 and a Ph. D. in physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. After positions at Bell Communications Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he joined the University of Florida where he currently holds the rank of Professor of Physics. In 1996, Dr. Reitze began working on the development of large-scale gravitational wave interferometers with the LIGO Project. He is currently the Spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, representing a group of 600 scientists worldwide engaged in the search for gravitational waves. |
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Michelle Stock, Director of Business Development, Arbor Photonics
Michelle Stock is a co-founder and Director of Business Development of Arbor Photonics, a spin-off from the University of Michigan focusing on developing innovative high power fiber lasers for industrial and defense markets. Previously, Dr. Stock worked as an engineer and marketing manager at IMRA America commercializing ultrafast fiber lasers. Dr. Stock holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She performed her thesis work on ultrafast fiber lasers under the supervision of Prof. Gerard Mourou at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science. Dr. Stock is an active member of OSA at the National and Local levels. |
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Ian Walmsley, Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Ian Walmsley is the Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford, UK, where he is also Head of the Sub-Department of Atomic and Laser Physics. Prior to moving to the UK in 2001, Dr. Walmsley was on the faculty of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. His research efforts have been directed toward quantum phenomena on ultrafast timescales, including the generation of nonclassical radiation and matter and its characterization, manipulation of matter using closed loop methods, and the development of methods for the measurement of ultrafast optical waveforms. |
