Kerry Vahala

Kerry Vahala is a co-founder of Xponent and serves as Xponent's Chief Scientist. He is a Professor of Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology and also received his Ph. D. in Applied Physics at Caltech in 1985. His work in lightwave communications spans a 20 year time frame during which he has made discoveries impacting both the fundamental limits for information transmission as well as how lightwave information can be manipulated in pure optical form. Dr. Vahala is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, is the first recipient of the Richard P. Feynman Hughes Fellowship, and has received both the NSF and ONR Presidential Investigator Awards. He has served as a technical member for the organization of many lightwave communications conferences, including OFC and CLEO (for which he was the General Chair in 2001).