Bernard Lee
Director of Technology & Innovation, SENKO Advanced Components
Bernard is currently the Director of Technology & Innovation at SENKO Advanced Components. He started his career in optical communications when he was a Senior Research Office for the European Union IST project known as DAVID in 2000. In 2003, he joined Telekom Malaysia R&D where he has held various technical and management positions there including the Head of Photonic Network Research and also Head of Innovation and Communications. Bernard then joined the parent company, Telekom Malaysia (TM) in 2010 as the Assistant General Manager at the Group Business Strategy Division. Bernard is also an Expert at the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) accredited by the Engineering Council of UK, a Professional Engineer (PEng) registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia and also a BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD).
|
 Anke Lohmann
Co-founder, Anchored In
Anke has been involved in the UK quantum technologies community since the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme started. She was tasked to set up the Quantum Technologies Special Interest Group in 2014 to bring companies to the programme. Since then, she has maintained strong links to the programme and, in particular, focuses on translating the technology into commercial applications. In 2016 she co-founded Anchored In, to improve the adoption of science and technology by industry, working with companies, universities and government-funded organisations in the UK and abroad. Her focus is on quantum technologies and photonics, photonics being her technical background. Since 2018 she has been reviewing and communicating about the UK Quantum Technology Start-Up community to give them a voice and support this important and thriving part of the Quantum Technology ecosystem. This year, Anke became involved in two Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits (QPICS) initiatives: a European one and a UK one. As a result, Anke is currently setting up a network of organisations interested in QPICS in the UK. Anke sits on several steering groups and chairs advisory boards.
|
Una Marvet
Business Development Manager, Photonics, Alter Technology TÜV Nord UK Ltd.
Una Marvet has a PhD in ultrafast spectroscopy from Michigan State University. She has 14 years’ experience in telecommunications as an application engineer and product line manager and 6 years’ experience in Aerospace and Defence as a product manager and programme manager. She joined Alter in January 2021.
|
 Taofiq Paraiso
Team Leader, Toshiba Europe Ltd, Cambridge Research Lab, United Kingdom
Dr. Taofiq Paraiso is a Team Leader at Toshiba Europe, Cambridge Research Lab, UK. He is responsible for the development of photonic integrated circuits for quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation, as well as their system integration into practical chip-based QKD devices. Dr Paraiso has over 15 years of academic and industrial research experience in quantum photonics, semiconductor physics, light-matter interactions and nanofabrication. He previously held research positions at the California Institute of Technology and the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, and he received his PhD in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.
|
 Richard Pitwon
CEO, Resolute Photonics
Dr. Richard Pitwon is the founder and CEO of Resolute Photonics and has more than 20 years transformational expertise in optical and photonic system interconnect, integration and architectures for data centre, IoT and data-communications applications. He previously led the photonics research and development groups at Xyratex and Seagate for over 12 years. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the IET (FIET) and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP). He has generated over 54 patents, authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications including 4 international standards. He is the current chair of the IEC international standards subcommittee on fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components (SC86B), as well as secretary of the IEC optical circuit boards standards group and principal UK expert on international standards group (IEC / BSI) for Photonic Integrated Circuits (SC86C/WG4) and embedded devices (TC91/WG6). He is also the chair of the IEEE UK and Ireland Photonics chapter, where he founded the IEEE British and Irish Conference on Optics and Photonics. |
 Yi Qian
Principal Researcher, China Information Communication Technologies Group Corporation (CICT)
Dr.Yi Qian received his Bachelor, Master and Doctor degree from department of physics, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) in 2003, 2006, 2012 respectively. During his study career, his research area included quantum information and quantum optics, especially on the evolution behavior of quantum entanglement and quantum discord in cavity-QED systems.
From 2012.6 to 2017.5, he was a research engineer in Huawei technologies co.ltd. His R&D activities were mainly quantum key distribution, optical switching, and optical network. He had several publications in OFC, ACP conference. He also spent 1 year and 2 months in Huawei German research center (Munich) with local projects on quantum key distribution.
Since the beginning of 2020, he is the principal researcher in the State Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technologies and Networks, China Information Communication Technologies Group Corporation (CICT). Currently he focus on silicon based photonic integrated circuit and III-V material-based component for quantum key distribution system and quantum random number generator, and integration quantum technologies into existing optical network
|
 Jelmer Renema
CTO, QuiX, Netherlands
Jelmer Renema is the CTO of QuiX and an assistant professor of quantum optics at the University of Twente. He did his PhD in Leiden, in the group of Martin van Exter, before moving to the grouf of Ian Walmsley in Oxford for a postdoc. After obtaining a Veni fellowship, he moved to the University of Twente and founded QuiX in 2019
|
Ning Zhang
Senior Photonics Engineer, CSA Catapult, United Kingdom
Ning received her DPhil in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol in 2016, where she researched the design and validation of semiconductor photonic devices. Then, she joined the University of Glasgow as a post-doc leading the photonic device work package in a Horizon 2020 project. In 2019, she started a role in Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology to expand her experience in semiconductor device fabrication. With 10 years’ experience in photonic devices and systems, Ning joined the Photonics group in CSA Catapult as a leader in Photonic Integrated Chip. CSA Catapult focuses on providing design, validation and prototype development services to help customers achieve breakthroughs in telecom, datacom, quantum, sensing, power, automotive cars, etc.
|
