Dr. Jobayer Hossain is an Assistant Professor with expertise in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and optical technologies. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Optics & Photonics from the University of Central Florida, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tennessee Tech University, and a B.Sc. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Tech. Prior to academia, Dr. Hossain gained extensive industry experience as a Sr. PIC Design Engineer at Phase Sensitive Innovations and a Silicon Photonics Engineer at AIM Photonics, and completed R&D internships at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Spark Photonics, and imec USA during his doctoral training. Dr. Hossain’s work emphasizes the end-to-end development of photonic integrated circuits, including device and circuit-level design, layout, fabrication, and experimental characterization. His research interests include reconfigurable PICs, optical interconnects, AI accelerators, quantum photonics, and space and satellite technologies, with an emphasis on scalable, high-performance photonic systems.