Pouya Dianat is the Director of PICs and Foundry Services at QCI Foundry, leading business strategy and product development focused on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate technology for the photonics market. Prior to QCI, he was a market expert and Technical Director at OPTICA, specializing in PIC and Quantum technologies, and a Business Development Manager at Luminar Technologies in the automotive LIDAR sector. With over a decade of experience in business development and commercializing advanced photonics, he earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2015 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.