Dr. Ali Ghiasi
President
Dr. Ghiasi is currently president of Ghiasi Quantum LLC, a Silicon Valley consulting firm specializing in higher-speed Ethernet products, data center networks, optical interconnects, and co-packaged optics, and high speed-signaling. Client lists include early startups to large Multi-national Corporations.
From 2000 to 2013, Dr. Ghiasi was with Broadcom Corporation where he pioneered high-speed serial interconnect through the creation of XFP MSA, SFP+ MSA, Copper Direct Attach “DAC” cables; and help develop 6 generations of Ethernet products from 10 GbE to 100 GbE. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Ghiasi was at Sun Microsystems where he helped with the development of both Fibre Channel storage array and the first HPC system based on parallel optical interconnect. Prior to 1996, Dr. Ghiasi held positions at 3M Corporation and IBM Corporation working on high-speed signaling and optical interconnects.
Dr. Ghiasi is the holder of 49 granted U.S. patents, and has published over 20 scientific papers, and co-authored two books in fiber-optics technology. Dr. Ghiasi holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University, and a Bachelor of Science from North Dakota State University.