Dagmawi Alemayehu Bekele

CTO and Co-Founder at Phanofi ApS | developing optical interconnects | Innofounder

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

About

Photonics Engineer (PhD) with specialization on nanophotonics devices. My interest lies in the realm of photonics and electronics co-integration for optical communication, in which I have the required theoretical background with more than 6 years of device characterization and cleanroom hands-on experience. I like to work in a team with similar or diverse background in order to achieve a common goal. I also enjoy working independently on projects with or without tight deadlines at high degree of attention to detail. I am always looking forward to invest my time in new challenges.

Experience

  • CTO and co-founder at Phanofi
    Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at DTU Fotonik
    Oct 2018 - Oct 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    • Design of photonic crystal device components such as cavities, waveguides, and grating couplers using finite-difference time-domain,finite element method, and plane wave expansion methods • Fabrication of the photonic crystal devices on indium phosphide device layer wafer bonded to a silicon substrate. • Linear and dynamic characterization of the fabricated samples • Developing numerical simulations to fit the measurement data, estimate physical parameters, and further optimize the devices for various optical signal processing applications • Supervising and co-supervising PhD, MSc and BSc student projects

  • Research Assistant at DTU Fotonik
    May 2014 - May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Designed polarization-independent subwavelength grating (SWG) mirrors using rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA). • Fabricated the SWG structures on silicon-on-insulator substrate using E-beam lithography and dry-etch processes. • Characterized the samples using free-space optical reflection measurement setup. • Analyzed the measurement data, and wrote manuscript for peer-reviewed journal.

  • Student research assistant at Fraunhofer IOSB
    Aug 2012 - Jan 2013 · 6 mos

    • Investigated feature detection, extraction and description algorithms for mobile-based image processing applications. • Implemented C++ based platform for comparision of various feature detection and description algorithms exploiting OpenCV library, the Stanford mobile visual search data set, and the Oxford data set. • Prepared conference proceeding for IEEE international conference on image processing.