Meet Our Team!
Ryan Fong
Co-Founder, CEO
Dr. Jesse Lu
Co-Founder, CTO
Professor Jelena Vuckovic
Co-Founder, Lead Scientific Advisor
Jim Qu
Founding Engineer
David Qu
Founding Engineer
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Romil Audkhasi
Photonics Engineer
Our Story
HyperWave wasn't built in a day... here's the story of how SPINS Photonics got started!
Our Journey
From Stanford research to industry-leading photonics simulation
Jelena & Jesse publish pioneering inverse design papers
Jesse develops FDFD solver during PhD (2011)
First inverse-designed component fabricated using V1 solver
Jesse develops V2 FDTD solver
Jesse & Jelena found SPINS Photonics Inc.
SPINS releases fdtd-z (V3), 1.12 Tb/s interconnect achieved
Ryan joins SPINS to lead sales & business operations (November)
Jesse & Ryan attend Photonics West (January)
Jim & David join as software engineers (October)
SPINS attends Photonics West 2025
HyperWave (V4) in active development
Romil & Pranta join as photonics interns (July)