I celebrated my second anniversary with Ayar Labs about a week ago. It’s been a great ride leading this game-changing company and technology.  I am especially happy to share that we just closed a fantastic $35M Series B financing that provides the means to continue...

Our world shifted with the growing criticality of Covid-19 … and we at Ayar Labs shifted with it. Early in the month, we made the difficult decision to not attend the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), but with tireless hours by our technical team to pull...

It feels like just yesterday that I wrote my last blog post — my, how time flies! ISC’19 was of course a great chance to reconnect with old partners and friends in the HPC community, but it was also an opportunity to collect first-hand feedback and requirements from...

As I sit on the first flight to ISC’19 (International Supercomputing Conference), I can’t help but reflect back on the last two weeks and all that’s been going on at Ayar Labs… We’ve had several new hires, including Vladimir Stojanovic, a co-founder of Ayar Labs who...

On January 2nd, 2019, I left a company that I admired and worked at for nearly 20 years: Intel Corporation. It wasn’t that I was dissatisfied with the company or my work—on the contrary, I had an exceptional team that was building out the rack scale design systems...

When I started working on microring-based optical I/O in 2011 during my PhD, my team’s effort was considered a moonshot by most in the industry. We were the “crazy academics” with a contrarian vision to building communication fabrics that could scale to the tens of...