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Pouya Dianat, PhD

Thin-Film Lithium Niobate: Enabling the Future of Integrated Photonics

22 May 2025


Pouya Dianat, PhD

Director, PIC & Foundry Services

Pouya Dianat is the Director of PIC and Foundry Services at QCi Foundry, leading business strategy and product development focused on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate technology for the photonics market. Prior to QCi, he was a market expert and Technical Director at OPTICA, specializing in PIC and Quantum technologies, and a Business Development Manager at Luminar Technologies in the automotive LIDAR sector. With over a decade of experience in business development and commercializing advanced photonics, he earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2015 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.

● Email Address: pouya@quantumcomputinginc.com

About the Speaker

Pouya Dianat is the Director of PIC and Foundry Services at QCi Foundry, leading business strategy and product development focused on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate technology for the photonics market. Prior to QCi, he was a market expert and Technical Director at OPTICA, specializing in PIC and Quantum technologies, and a Business Development Manager at Luminar Technologies in the automotive LIDAR sector. With over a decade of experience in business development and commercializing advanced photonics, he earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2015 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.

● Email Address: pouya@quantumcomputinginc.com

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