Roberto Panepucci received his Masters (1990) and Bachelors (1989) in Applied Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, in 1996. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Device Research Laboratory at Unicamp, Brazil, working on III-V optoelectronics. Dr. Panepucci joined the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility (CNF) in 1999 and soon after joined startup Galayor Networks in developing silicon photonic devices. In 2002 he joined the Nanophotonics Group in Cornell. From 2003 to 2009 he received Tenure at Florida International University, and soon after took up the position of Senior Researcher at CTI. He headed the Hardware Systems Design Division and served as General Project and Services Coordinator and Deputy Director where he coordinated projects in the area of photonic integrated circuits in silicon and the fabrication of micro and nanosystems. He is currently a Sr. Research Associate at the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility with Cornell University.