Kalpendu Shastri has Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University, NY, USA. An Optoelectronics industry visionary with 37+ years of experience with insight ranging from devices to systems. Founder & CEO of AANetcom acquired by PMC Sierra for $965M. Founding CEO & CTO of Lightwire, a CMOS Photonics company acquired by Cisco Systems for $271M. Holds 50+ patents in the field of Circuit Design, Opto-electronics, and Silicon Photonics.
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