Silicon-photonics chip startup building optical interconnects to replace copper in AI servers.
Founders
Alexandra Wright-Gladstein(United States · ♀)— While at MIT Sloan, Wright-Gladstein co-founded Ayar Labs in 2015 and served as founding CEO to commercialize MIT/Berkeley silicon-photonics research into optical chip interconnects.
Mark Wade(United States · ♂)— A silicon-photonics researcher, Wade co-founded Ayar Labs (later becoming CEO) to bring light-based chip-to-chip interconnects to market.
Chen Sun(United States · ♂)— An MIT photonics PhD, Sun co-founded Ayar Labs to develop its monolithic optical chiplet technology.
Vladimir Stojanovic(Serbia · ♂)— A Berkeley/MIT professor whose lab pioneered electronic-photonic integration, Stojanovic co-founded Ayar Labs as its chief architect to productize silicon-photonic interconnects.
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