Alex Tselikov is a co-founder and Principal Engineer at Avicena. From MEMs-based tunable lasers at Iolon, to optical inspection equipment at KLA Tencor, to 100G and 400G transceivers at Opnext and Kaiam, to high power pulsed fiber lasers at Polar, Alex has developed much of the optical technology that is around us today. Alex received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998.