HP Labs

Well, maybe to start, maybe you could walk us through the highlights of the 20-year arc of your career.

The first months at HP Labs, what was the state of the industry? Then maybe when do you think you hit an inflection point and there were big breakthroughs? And then I'll finally ask you a little bit about what you think the technology, the current state of the technology today is.

Yeah, absolutely.

So actually when I started at HP Labs, at that point it was HP Labs actually, I was working on quantum optics.

And at some point there was this sort of crazy idea of, hey, you can use silicon to carry light and build integrated photonic circuits instead of electronic circuits.

And so, like, boy, you know, I was pretty kind of at the beginning of my career.

The industry that's being built is really carrying a lot of the information and the data that we use every day.

I'm pretty sure that as we go from where I am in California to where you are, it's being touched by products made by Silicon Photonics along the way.

It's sort of atypical of people in my role.

I started off with a PhD in mathematics, then I joined Hewlett Packard Labs as a research scientist working on data mining, machine learning.

Then I joined Hitachi as a principal researcher, if I remember correctly.

And then I sort of you know, through the management ladder was when I left Hitachi in 2026, I was leading all of AI research at Hitachi globally.