Jigesh K. Patel

Jigesh Patel is Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for photonic design automation tools at Synopsys. Jigesh has 20+ years of experience in fiber optics and communication systems. He received his master’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Jigesh's areas of interest include silicon photonics, coherent and IM/DD fiber-optics, microwave photonics, data-center and automotive interconnects. Prior to Synopsys, Jigesh was a researcher at the Advanced Technologies Lab at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Application Engineering Manager at RSoft. His prior research includes secure optical networks, indoor infra-red communication, and high-speed fiber-optics, some of which was funded/co-funded by NSA, DARPA and SBIR. Jigesh has collaborated on a number of topics with the industry and academia, and has led modeling related projects with the top tier foundries. Jigesh is a Senior Member of the IEEE.