Brendan Bevensee

Brendan Bevensee has worked in various technical roles since 1994. Brendan began their career as a Physicist with the High Energy Physics Engineering Group at the University of Pennsylvania, where they designed electronics for high-energy physics applications. In 1999, they worked as a Staff Scientist at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In 2000, they joined Photuris (also Mahi / Meriton Networks) as an Electro-Optical Engineer, where they worked on the team that developed the world's first commercially available fully reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) for an optical transport network. In 2008, they were hired as a Principal Electro-Optical Engineer at Aegis Lightwave, where they developed an Optical Channel Monitor for DWDM networks. In 2012, they joined Lytro, Inc. as Lead Engineer, Light Field Video and Member of Technical Staff, Team Lead, where they were the architect of optical calibration and test for the Lytro ILLUM product line and authored much of the code base. In 2017, they became the CTO and Co-founder of Light Field Lab, Inc., where they are building the world's most innovative holographic ecosystem.

Brendan Bevensee obtained their PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and their BA in Physics and Math from the University of California, Davis.