Dylan McGuire received a B.A.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2004, an M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in 2006 and was a candidate for a Ph.D. at McGill University where he researched computational methods for atomistic charge transport. He joined Lumerical in 2011 and later joined Ansys through Lumerical’s acquisition in 2020. Dylan currently leads the photonics and optoelectronics R&D team in the Optics group at Ansys.