Joris Van Campenhout

Joris Van Campenhout is Fellow Silicon Photonics and Director of the industry-affiliation R&D program on Optical I/O at imec (Belgium). By advancing Silicon Photonics technology, imec’s Optical I/O R&D program seeks to substantially scale optical interconnects to bandwidth densities beyond 1Tbps/mm, while consuming less power than 1pJ/bit, thereby enabling next-generation AI, HPC and Cloud datacenter systems. Prior to joining imec in 2010, Joris was a post-doctoral researcher at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center (USA), where he developed silicon electro-optic switches, and he obtained a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2007, for his work on heterogeneous integration of III-V microdisk lasers on silicon. Joris has authored or co-authored 12 patents and over 100 papers in the field of silicon integrated photonics, which have received 9000+ citations.