Advancing Quantum Communications with PICs

Taofiq K. Paraïso

Toshiba Europe Limited

Dr. Taofiq Paraiso is a Team Leader at Toshiba Europe, Cambridge Research Lab, UK. He is responsible for the development of photonic integrated circuits for quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation, as well as their system integration into practical chip-based QKD devices. Dr Paraiso has over 15 years of academic and industrial research experience in quantum photonics, semiconductor physics, light-matter interactions and nanofabrication. He held research positions at the California Institute of Technology and the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, and received his PhD in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.