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Innovations in Light Sources for AI and Emerging Applications

PSC Semi-Annual Conference and Workshop

Photonics Society Of Chinese Heritage (PSC)

中華光電學會

  • Dec. 5th, 2025 (Friday) 6:00pm PST
  • Dec. 6th, 2025 (Saturday) 10:00am BJT
  • Online virtual conference
  • Free
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Workshop description

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Speakers and Panelists

Dr. Vladimir Kozlov

"Integrated optics for AI Clusters"

CEO, LightCounting
Vladimir Kozlov is serving as CEO and Chief Analyst of LightCounting since it was founded in 2004. He also held product development and research staff positions at Lucent Technologies and Princeton University. He received M.Sc. at Moscow State University in Russia and Ph.D in Physics at Brown University in the United States.

Dr. Bardia Pezeshki,

"MicroLED based data interconnects for short reach and AI applications"

CTO, AvicenaTech Corp.
With a PhD in EE from Stanford, Bardia has led efforts at IBM and SDL in photonics research and founded three companies. Santur developed the first practical tunable laser which dominated long haul networks. Kaiam's multiwavelength transceivers were used by most hyperscalers, and Avicena's microLED's could revolutionize short-reach applications.

Dr. Xue Huang

"Silicon Photonic Lasers"

Principal Engineer, Cisco
Xue Huang is a Principal Engineer at Cisco, where she leads laser research and development efforts to support the fast-growing telecom and datacom industries. Her expertise covers a range of technologies, including laser photonic integrated circuit (PIC), quantum well (QW) lasers, quantum dot (QD) lasers, far-infrared lasers, and the integration of III-V lasers with silicon platforms through die coupling and/or epitaxial growth.

Dr. Alexey Borodkin

"QD lasers enabling on- & off-PIC of CPO"

Senior Staff Engineer, Innolume GmbH
Alex Borodkin, born in Russia in 1995, earned B.Sc. and M.S. degrees from ITMO University and a Ph.D. in Laser Physics from Université Côte d'Azur. He joined Innolume in 2023. His work focuses on quantum dot lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, photonic integration, nonlinear laser dynamics, and frequency comb generation.

Dr. John Jost

"Breaking the bottleneck: Kerr Comb Lasers for Optical IO"

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Enlightra
Dr. John Jost is a physicist known for pioneering work in quantum information and optical frequency combs, including breakthroughs at NIST with Nobel laureates Dave Wineland and John Hall. A former Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL, he co-founded Enlightra, which develops leading microresonator frequency comb technology and participated in Y Combinator and Intel Ignite.

Dr. Steven Alleston

"Enabling High Speed Interconnects and machine vision for AI with Heterogeneous Integration"

Sr. Director of Business Development, Openlight
Steven Alleston is a Senior Director for Business Development at OpenLight Photonics who have developed an open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers and other active components to address the needs of multiple applications including Datacom, High Performance Compute and LIDAR. Steven has held a number of engineering, product management and strategy roles within the optics industry including designing and developing DWDM systems for core and metro applications as well as managing client optics and developing strategies for IP and optical integration. Prior to joining OpenLight, Steven worked as a Senior Product Manager and Director of Engineering for Juniper Networks and has held similar roles at Ericsson and Marconi. Steven holds a PhD from the University of Essex in the UK and is based in the San Francisco bay area.

Dr. Martin Vallo

"Wiring the Future with Light"

Senior Market and Technology Analyst, Yole Group
Martin Vallo, PhD is Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Photonics at Yole Group. He specializes in optical communication and semiconductor lasers within the Photonics activities at Yole Group. With 12 years’ experience within semiconductor technology, Martin is involved today in the development of technology & market products as well as the production of custom consulting projects.

Semi-Annual Conference Agenda

Opening Talk (5 min)

  • Mr. Marcus Yang, PSC President (5 min)

Panel Presentation (75 min)

  • Dr. Vladimir Kozlov, CEO, LightCounting (12 min)
  • Dr. Bardia Pezeshki, CTO, AvicenaTech Corp. (12 min)
  • Dr. Xue Huang, Principal Engineer, Cisco (12 min)
  • Dr. Alexey Borodkin, Senior Staff Engineer, Innolume GmbH (12 min)
  • Dr. John Jost, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Enlightra (12 min)
  • Dr. Steven Alleston, Sr. Director of Business Development, Openlight (12 min)
  • Dr. Martin Vallo, Senior Market and Technology Analyst, Yole Group

Panel Discussion (35 min)

PSC closing remark (5 min)

Photonics Society of Chinese Heritage (PSC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promote friendships and collaborations among Chinese American engineers and scientists in the field of photonics so that they can enhance their professional and business contributions for better quality of life in this fast changing world.

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