Tomoyuki Akiyama

Senior Researcher

PETRA/Fujitsu

Dr. Tomoyuki Akiyama was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan in 1970. He received the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993, 1995, and 1998, respectively. In 1998, he joined Fujitsu, Limited, where he started his pioneering work on investigating optical properties of carrier-injected quantum dots. In 2006, he co-founded QD Laser, Inc., where he started mass-production and -marketing of quantum-dot optical devices. Dr. Tomoyuki Akiyama is currently leading an R&D team of Si PIC-based optical transceivers at Fujitsu Limited. He is currently a member of OFC technical program committee.