Kim Roberts
Organisation: Ciena Role: Vice President, WaveLogic Science
Kim Roberts is a passionate evangelist of new optical technologies and has been a major force in the field of digital signal processing for optical transmission in developing the first coherent 40, 100, 400, and 800 Gb/s optical systems. As the vice-president of WaveLogic Science, Roberts leads a research and development team focused on ‘pushing the physical limits of high capacity optical communications even further’ in terms of speed, distance and cost. Roberts, who holds more than 190
patents with more pending, thinks the biggest obstacles to overcome in achieving
Based in: Ottawa, Canada Education: MApSc in EE
that goal are ‘obtaining greater spectral efficiency, lower cost per bit, and lower heat per bit’. Meanwhile, he said he is on a ‘personal quest’ to mitigate optical nonlinearities. Roberts has been named an IEEE
Fellow, a Nortel Fellow, and in 2019 he was the recipient of the John Tyndall Award ‘for his pioneering contributions to the development of practical coherent communication systems’. You can find just some of Roberts’s research work at
researchgate.net/scientific- contributions/Kim-Roberts-75320010. He plans to attend OFC 2023.
Haisheng Rong
Organisation: Intel Corporation Role: Senior Principal Scientist
Haisheng Rong’s research is focused on delivering ‘high bandwidth density and energy-efficient optical I/O networks enabled by silicon photonics technology’. While Rong believes that ‘low-cost
manufacturing and co-packaging of electronic and photonic chips’ are a challenge in that regard, Intel Labs did announce this summer that it had demonstrated an eight-wavelength distributed feedback (DFB) laser array that was fully integrated on a silicon wafer and was designed and fabricated on Intel's 300mm hybrid silicon photonics
Yossi Rubner
Organisation:
Kitov.ai Role: CTO and Co-Founder Based in: Israel
Yossi Rubner explained the rationale behind his company’s CAD2Scan application while in conversation with Electro Optics’ sister title Imaging and Machine Vision Europe just before
Kitov.ai won the Vision Award for the software at Vision 2022 in October. ‘To perform an easy automated visual inspection, we need to deal with two issues: firstly, the need for systems that can handle complex geometries, deal with customised products, and with high-mix production lines. For this, Kitov offers robotic inspection solutions. Secondly, the
Education: PhD degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
need for a fast and simple way to automate the generation of inspection plans directly from the CAD model. This is the power of CAD2Scan.’ Rubner possesses more than two decades of R&D management expertise, combined with academic research and teaching. Prior to founding
Kitov.ai, he was the CEO of RTC Vision, and managed large R&D groups in several imaging companies. He has published a book and has more
than 20 journal and conference papers to his credit in the areas of image/video processing and computer vision.
Based in: Santa Clara, California, USA Education: PhD, Physics, Heidelberg University
platform. At the time, Rong said: ‘This new research demonstrates that it’s possible to achieve well-matched output power with uniform and densely spaced wavelengths. Most importantly, this can be done using existing manufacturing and process controls … ensuring a clear path to volume production of the next-generation co-packaged optics and optical compute interconnect at scale.’ You can find Rong online at
linkedin.com/in/ haisheng-rong-3742919/. He plans to attend Photonics West, OFC, IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference and CLEO.
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