Xiaolei Peng is a skilled Photonic Hardware Engineer at Ciena, with previous experience as an Optical Engineer at Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. and an intern at One Silicon Chip Photonics. Xiaolei has also contributed as a Research Assistant and Research Intern at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique. Academic credentials include a thesis-based Master's degree in Physics obtained from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (September 2020 - July 2022) and a Bachelor of Engineering in Opto-electronic Information Science and Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2016 - 2020).