Bio:

Shiva Rai is part of Applied Materials, the leading semiconductor OEM. In his current role, he leads the technology development for compound semiconductors and photonics applications. He also drives strategic initiatives with eco-system partners in these fields to help accelerate the technology development.
Prior to this, he held various technical lead roles in the photonics industry. At Bridgelux, an LED lighting manufacturer, Shiva has led the product design, development and strategy of their successful Vesta Series Tunable White LED platform. He held diverse LED manufacturing and R&D positions at Lumileds both in their Blue and Red LEDs for automotive applications. Prior to that, Shiva served as the CTO of a solar startup company, Izar Solar, developing III-V dilute-nitride based multi junction solar cell technology. During this time, he was successful in demonstrating a technologically viable solution for a multi junction dilute III-V solar cells on Si that could bridge the performance gap between commercial Si solar cells and specialty III-V Solar cells.
Shiva holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of South Carolina (GaN HEMTs) and an MBA from Arizona State University. His technical expertise and current areas of focus are in photonic devices (physics, design, process & packaging) and Compound semi based RF & power devices.