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Yi Qian
MRSI Systems & Mycronic
About the Speaker
Dr. Yi Qian is the Vice President of Mycronic, GM at MRSI Systems. He has over 20 years of experience in large corporations and small start-up companies, developing and marketing advanced optoelectronic and mechanical components and systems with integrated hardware and software, for fiber optics / photonics, sensors, medical devices and other industries.He was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at MRSI Systems before it was acquired by Mycronic. Prior to that he was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Cambridge Technology, a Novanta company, delivering high performance laser scanners for multiple industries. Before that, Dr. Qian worked at Oclaro as Director of Product Management for 40G/100G optical transceivers and line cards. He was Vice President of Engineering in Dimensional Photonics International, a 3D laser sensor system startup that was acquired by Danaher Dental. Earlier he was Director of Engineering making high speed and high power semiconductor laser diodes and modules in Corning’s Lasertron division. He started his career in industry at Lasertron Inc before Corning’s acquisition.
Dr. Qian received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University and a Ph.D. Degree in Physics from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University focusing on wafer-bonded long wavelength VCSELs, new compliant substrate structures and materials, and advanced nanofabrication technologies. He holds 10 issued and pending patents and has published more than 45 articles in the areas of nano-Silicon, high power and high speed lasers, 3D optical sensing systems, and fiber coupling for silicon photonics.
