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Nikhil Kumar Location
Palo Alto, CA, US
Nikhil Kumar Work
Vice President of Photonics @ (July 2026 - Present)
Senior Director of Photonics @ (May 2025 - July 2026)
Director of Photonics @ (July 2024 - June 2025)
Principal Photonics Architect @ (August 2023 - August 2024)
Director, Photonic Integrated Circuits @ (June 2021 - August 2023)
System Architecture Lead @ (January 2020 - June 2021)
Senior Photonics Engineer @ (December 2017 - January 2020)
Senior Engineer @ (October 2016 - October 2017)
Research Associate III @ Center for NanoScience and Engineering (July 2015 - June 2016)
R and D Engineer III @ (November 2012 - May 2015)
Graduate Student @ (August 2007 - November 2012)
Assistant Technical Staff @ (February 2007 - July 2007)
Nikhil Kumar Education
UC Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Electrical Engineering)
2007-2012
University of Florida
Bachelor of Science (BS) (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
2004-2006
Nikhil Kumar Skills
Photonics
Optoelectronics
Semiconductor Fabrication
Semiconductor Process Technology
Simulations
CST Microwave Studio
FDTD
COMSOL
Lumerical
Electron Beam Lithography
ALD
SEM
AFM
Characterization
Java
Engineering
Matlab
C++
Embedded Systems
C
Optics
Semiconductors
Spectroscopy
Microfabrication
R&D
Nanotechnology
MEMS
Sensors
Testing
Silicon
Silicon Photonics
Optical Communications
Nikhil Kumar Summary
Nikhil Kumar, based in Palo Alto, CA, US, is currently a Vice President of Photonics at Lightmatter. Nikhil Kumar brings experience from previous roles at Lightmatter and PsiQuantum. Nikhil Kumar holds a 2007 - 2012 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical Engineering @ UC Berkeley. With a robust skill set that includes Photonics, Optoelectronics, Semiconductor Fabrication, Semiconductor Process Technology, Simulations and more. Nikhil Kumar has 1 emails and 1 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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