Philippe Absil

Philippe Absil received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2000. His doctoral work contributed to the early demonstrations of semiconductor microring resonators. In the early 2000s, he developed the passive photonics platform technology for Little Optics, Inc., Annapolis Junction, MD USA. From 2013 till 2024 he was VP R&D and the head of the 3-D and Optical I/O Technologies Department at imec and has been responsible for the silicon photonics technology platform development since 2010. Before that he spent seven years managing the advanced CMOS scaling program at imec. Now Philippe is VP imec.IC-link / imec Silicon Solutions at imec.