Lukas Chrostowski
Co-Founder at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolLukas Chrostowski is a professor and co-founder with a decade-plus of industry experience who leads research and commercialization at the intersection of silicon photonics, quantum photonics, and optoelectronics. As a Full Professor at UBC and Principal Investigator at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, he has driven design-fabricate-test workflows and trained generations of engineers through the SiEPICfab and NSERC CREATE programs. He co-founded Dream Photonics to translate advanced photonic designs into products and has over 300 publications plus the Cambridge University Press book "Silicon Photonics Design." An awarded educator and elected Royal Society of Canada college member, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on nanofabrication leadership from his AMPEL/ANF tenure. He routinely bridges lab-scale innovation and industrial fabrication—an asset for turning quantum and optical research into deployable technology.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBSc Electrical Engineering, BSc Electrical Engineering at McGill University
Github Skills (59)
circuit10
simulation10
pdk10
python10
netlist10
probe10
electron10
simulations10
typescript10
verification10
extraction10
github-desktop10
photonics10
hardware10
eda10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SiEPIC/SiEPIC-Tools
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
Package for KLayout to add integrated optics / silicon photonics functionality (waveguides, netlist extraction, circuit simulations, etc)
Contributions:124 releases, 1 review, 789 commits in 5 years
circuit-simulationsextractionpythonopticsintegrated
SiEPIC/SiEPIC_EBeam_PDK
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
SiEPIC EBeam PDK & Library, for SiEPIC-Tools and KLayout
Contributions:128 releases, 4 reviews, 877 commits in 7 years 3 months
fabricationgdssilicon-photonicspdkmonte-carlo-simulation
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