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Mario J. Paniccia is an Intel Fellow and director of the Photonics Technology Lab.
Paniccia joined Intel in 1995 as a lead researcher developing a novel optical testing technology for probing transistor timing in microprocessors. Today this optical testing technology is the standard in the industry. During his tenure at Intel he also served as a senior manager in the Intel Research organization focused on developing technologies in the areas of optical clocking, optical interconnects and optical communications.
He currently directs a group in the area of Silicon Photonics. The team is focused on developing silicon-based photonic building blocks for future use in enterprise and data center communications. His team has pioneered activities in silicon photonics that have led to the development of the first silicon modulator with bandwidth greater than 1GHz in 2004, the first continuous wave silicon laser breakthrough in 2005 and the first electrically pumped hybrid silicon laser in 2006 in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Scientific American named Paniccia one of 2004’s top 50 researchers for leading his team’s work in the area of silicon photonics. He has received two Intel Achievement Awards, has published more than 47 papers, including three book chapters, and has more than 67 patents issued or pending.
Paniccia earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1988 from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Ph.D. in solid state physics from Purdue University in 1994.
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