Gloria Hoefler
Pacific Biosciences, VP Engineering Research
About the Speaker
Dr. Gloria E. Hoefler is VP of Engineering Research at Pacific Biosciences and leads research efforts in photonic integration for DNA sensing. She holds Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She worked at 3M, HP/Agilent Technologies, Corning and Infinera in roles spanning R&D to high-volume manufacturing of optoelectronic and photonic integrated circuits and devices.
Gloria is a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) and SPIE and serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. She co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed papers and holds several patents in the field of optoelectronics.