Simon Fafard
Broadcom Semiconductor, Canada
Biography
Simon Fafard is currently a Hardware specialist at Broadcom Semiconductor ULC, Canada. Broadcom is a large public company that acquired Azastra in 2017. He has been focused on the design, epitaxy and characterization of optoelectronic devices, including most recently at uSherbrooke, Azastra and Broadcom. He received the 2017 CAP Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics. He has a Google Scholar h-index of 52, with about 250 publications, with over 11,000 citations and he is the inventor of over 30 patents. He raised over $20M of private and venture capital funding and also obtained numerous research grants. He led Cyrium to become a manufacturer of one of the highest performance multijunction III-V solar cells and led Azastra to manufacture the highest performance photo transducer products. As an entrepreneur he cumulates over 25 years of experience in Optoelectronics and Photonics while developing and commercializing numerous devices and products in the industry at Azastra, Aton, Cyrium, Alcatel Optronics, Kymata and also in research labs as a Professor at uSherbrooke, as a Senior Research Offi cer at National Research Council, as an Adjunct Professor in Physics at uOttawa and at UCSB.