Bassem Tossoun received his BS degree in Computer Engineering and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2014. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2019 with his research interests including silicon photonics and the design, fabrication, and characterization of optoelectronic devices. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs working on quantum dot photodiodes and memristor photonics for next-generation supercomputers.