Morten Nissov
Chief Executive Officer at Polaris Electro-Optics, Inc.
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolMorten Nissov is a technology leader and CEO with nearly three decades of experience driving product, commercial and organizational transformations across the optical communications industry. He has led global P&L teams and product roadmaps for coherent modules, pluggable transceivers and IC development, repeatedly translating advanced photonics and semiconductor technology into high-volume revenue streams for hyperscale and telecom customers. Currently scaling FenGlass™ modulators at Polaris Electro-Optics to address the data-movement bottleneck of the AI era, he combines deep technical expertise (PhD in EE, 19 U.S. patents) with an operator’s focus on go-to-market execution and supply-chain strategy. His background includes engineering-led innovation at Lumentum, Oclaro and TE, and he pairs that with business training from NYU Stern to bridge science and commercial adoption. An early contributor to robotics/vision tooling on GitHub (GPS factors in GTSAM), he keeps one foot in hands-on engineering while running capital-intensive product programs. Based in Long Beach, CA, he is known for building cross-functional teams that turn research breakthroughs into infrastructure-grade optical interconnects.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, General Management, MBA, General Management at New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of BusinessPh.D., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technical University of DenmarkSergeant, Artillery, Sergeant, Artillery at Danish Army Artillery School
English, Danish, Chinese, German
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Github Skills (10)
bayesian-network10
gps10
graph10
factors10
robotics10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
serialization9
data-serialization9
linear-algebra8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
borglab/gtsam
May 2023 - Jan 2025
GTSAM is a library of C++ classes that implement smoothing and mapping (SAM) in robotics and vision, using factor graphs and Bayes networks as the underlying computing paradigm rather than sparse matrices.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Morten's primary contributions revolve around the implementation of GPS factors within the GTSAM library, a robotics and vision library. Their work includes adding new functionalities such as lever arm arguments and serialization support for GPS factors. They also updated the interface and created new GPSFactorArm and GPSFactor2Arm classes to account for lever arms. This involved modifications to existing code, including header and source files, and the addition of new test cases to ensure functionality.
smoothingsparsec-plus-plushierarchicalpattern-recognition
ntnu-arl/modalai-px4-firmware
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
PX4 Autopilot Software
Contributions:2 PRs, 100 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 1 month
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