Stefanos Sidiropoulos, Vice President, Physical Layer Products
Dr. Sidiropoulos’s expertise is in high-speed circuit design, clock and data recovery (CDR) and CAD. Before co-founding Aeluros, he was a design manager with Rambus Inc, where he worked on the development and production of Direct Rambus DRAMs. He also has worked on high-speed circuits and CAD at MIPS/SGI, DEC, and IIT. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from University of Crete, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He has co-authored more than 20 technical papers and holds numerous patents.

Nader Gamini, Vice President of Manufacturing, Physical Layer Products
Mr. Gamini has over 20 years of experience in RF and optical package/module design, operations, thermal/mechanical analysis, reliability, and production test. Before co-founding Aeluros, he was the Director of Advanced Packaging with Sirenza Inc., developing RF wireless and high-speed networking semiconductor products (e.g. OC-192 TIAs, etc.) His experience prior to Sirenza includes Director of Advanced Packaging with Rambus, and various managerial and engineering positions at Pacific Monolithics and Pantronix. He serves as a member of technical advisory boards of several companies including Invensense (MEMS gyros) and VT Silicon (RF semiconductors). In addition to Aeluros, he serves as a member of board of directors of Verticle (high-brightness LEDs) and Celerity Research (smart probe cards). Mr. Gamini obtained his B.S. degree in Computer Science and holds 5 U.S. patents.

Shantanu Mitra, Vice President of Marketing, Physical Layer Products
Dr. Mitra brings more than 15 years of engineering and sales/marketing experience in electronic and optical components to Aeluros. Prior to Aeluros, he was Director of Marketing at Infineon Technologies (North America) where he was responsible for the fiber optics business. Before that he was Vice President of Marketing at TeraBurst Networks—a developer of dense optical switching systems for the telecom market. He has also held several engineering and marketing positions at Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies, including managing the business development activities of Agilent’s fiber optics division in the Asia/Pacific region. Dr. Mitra holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has more than 20 publications in the peer-reviewed technical literature, several articles in the trade press and he holds one patent.

Marc Loinaz, Director of Design, Physical Layer Products
Dr. Loinaz has over 10 years of mixed-signal integrated circuit design experience. Before co-founding Aeluros, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the High-Speed Physical Layer Design group at Agere Systems, building transceivers in SiGe for OC-192 and for OC-768. In his previous position at Bell Labs, Dr. Loinaz led a research team that demonstrated the world’s first single-chip color digital video camera in CMOS. He received the 1998 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, a 1999 Award for Technological Innovation from Discover Magazine, and a 2000 Distinguished Technical Staff Award from Bell Labs. Dr. Loinaz received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in mixed-signal CMOS IC design. He has co-authored 13 papers and holds 6 U.S. patents.

Haw-Jyh (H.J.) Liaw, Director of Systems, Physical Layer Products
Dr. Liaw has over 10 years of experience in high-speed component and system-level physical design, signal integrity, production test, modeling, and verification. Before co-founding Aeluros, he was a Principal Engineer at Rambus Inc, leading the physical design and verification of high-speed backplane links. Before that, he worked on the physical design of the Direct Rambus Channel (currently shipping in volume in desktop PCs from leading PC manufacturers). He also was responsible for the physical design of the 3.2 GB/s QRSL channel. Dr. Liaw obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds 8 patents and has co-authored more than 10 papers, two of which received outstanding paper awards from the 1995 IEEE ECTC Conference and the 1996 DesignCon.