Roberto Paiella, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He has extensive research experience in photonics and semiconductor device physics, and has designed and developed several novel devices in the areas of all-optical switching, intersubband optoelectronics, photonic integrated circuits, and high-speed diode lasers. Dr. Paiella holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Boston University, he worked at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies and in the Optoelectronics Division of Agere Systems.