Ashkan Seyedi is a senior research scientist for Hewlett Packard Labs. Ashkan received a dual bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California working on photonic crystal devices, high-speed nanowire photodetectors, efficient white LEDs, and solar cells. Since 2014 at HPE, he has worked on developing high-bandwidth, efficient optical interconnects for exascale and high-performance computing applications.