Dr Mario Paniccia
Director Photonics Technology Lab
Intel Corporation

Dr. Mario Paniccia is currently the Director of Photonic Technology Lab at Intel Corporation.  Mario currently directs a research group with activities in the area of Silicon Photonics. The team  is  focused on developing silicon-based photonic building blocks using standard CMOS  processing for future use in enterprise and data center communications. Mario has worked in many areas of optical technologies during  his career at Intel including optical testing for leading edge microprocessors, optical communications and optical interconnects.  Mario earned  a B.S. degree in Physics in 1988 from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a  Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from Purdue University in 1994.