[CCoE Notice] Seminar: Photonic Startup Stories: Personal Observations and Other Comments by Eric Swanson, Ph.D.

[Grayson, Audrey A]

Seminar
The University of Houston Optics and Biophotonics Society
OSA Student Chapter

October 30, 2014
10:00 a.m. (Pizza and refreshments served at 11:15 am)
Room: 120, Classroom and Business Building


 Photonic Startup Stories: Personal
Observations and Other Comments

A public lecture by

 Eric Swanson, Ph.D.

 Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at MIT


Dr. Swanson was a co-founder of three start-up companies: Advanced Ophthalmic  Devices (acquired by Zeiss Meditech), Lightlab Imaging (acquired by St. Jude  Medical), Sycamore Networks (Nasdaq IPO); and a founding board member of two more startups: Acacia Communication (private), and Curata Incorporated (private). Dr. Swanson was involved in research and development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for 16 years where he served in various technical and managerial roles working on optical networks, inter-satellite laser communication systems, and optical coherence tomography. Swanson has authored ~200 technical papers and conference presentations. In addition, he holds ~35 US patents and numerous foreign patents. He is a Fellow of the OSA and senior member of the IEEE. In 1992 he was a co-recipient of the Rank Prize in Opto-Electronics for pioneering work in the field of optical coherence tomography. In 2012 he was a co-recipient of the Champalimaud Award also for pioneering work in the field of optical coherence tomography. Dr. Swanson holds a B.S. summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Swanson serves as a director for Acacia Communications, Curata Incorporated, and NinePoint Medical and as a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consultant at Draper Laboratory, affiliate of the MIT Deshpande Center for Entrepreneurship, and is editor of www.octnews.org<http://www.octnews.org>.

Contact Dr. Kirill Larin (klarin at uh.edu<mailto:klarin at uh.edu>) if you would like to arrange for a time to meet with the speaker.

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