Dr. Mahmoud Fallahi, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder, Board Member and the Chief Technical Advisor at DeUVe Photonics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, France in 1988. After 6 years as a Research Scientist at the NRC in Canada, he joined the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona in 1995, where he still serves as a Professor of Optical Sciences. His interests include research and development of advanced semiconductor lasers, integrated photonic components and their applications. He has multiple patents and numerous publications in the field.