Sagi Mathai, Ph.D. is a Principal Research Scientist in the Large Scale Integrated Photonics Group at HPE Labs and a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica.  He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, where he developed high-speed III-V optoelectronic devices for microwave photonic links.  His current research focuses on silicon photonics, optical transceiver and link architecture, co-packaging, and emerging optical materials for datacenter networking and high performance computing systems.  Dr. Mathai has authored more than 65 technical publications, contributed three book chapters, and holds 96 U.S. patents.