Dr.WaguihIshak
Technology Innovator & Coach
Dr. Waguih Ishak is the Division VP and
Chief Technologist for Corning Research & Development Corporation. He joined Corning
in 2007 to establish a new Silicon Valley facility, the Corning West Technology Center (CWTC)
in Palo Alto, California to conduct advanced research on optical interconnects, novel displays, and semiconductor devices & sensors.
From 2005 to 2007, Ishak was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of
Avago Technologies (now Broadcom) where
he established the US R&D Center to do state
of the art research in high-speed semiconductors, semiconductor photonics and III-V compound semiconductor devices.
From 2003 to 2005, Ishak was the Vice President and Director of the Photonics & Electronics Research Lab at Agilent Labs responsible for R&D programs in photonics, high-speed electronic ICs, semiconductor sensors, semiconductor tests, wireless communications, and consumer electronics. From 1987 to 2003, Ishak was the Director of the Communications & Optics Research Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard Labs, working on photonics
and integrated electronics. From 1978 to 1987, Ishak was a Scientist/Project Manager for bubble memories, SAW devices and MSW devices.
Ishak has authored approximately 100 journal and conference papers, and four chapters in the “Handbook of Electronic Instruments.” He was named an inventor on seven U.S. patents. He is on the technical advisory boards of USC, UCSDS, SCU, UCSB, and McMaster University. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on “Harnessing the Light” to write the book “Optics & Photonics – Essential Technologies for Our Nation,” 2013, resulting in the White House announcement of the Integrated Photonics Manufacturing Institute in October 2014. In 2016, Ishak was selected as a member of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technologies (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and served for 6 years from 2017 to 2022.
Ishak received a B.S.E.E. (hon.) from Cairo University in 1971 and a B.S. in mathematics (hon.) from Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 1973.
He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D., both in electrical engineering, from McMaster University, Canada, in 1975 and 1978, respectively. Ishak obtained the Stanford University Executive Program in 1999 and was awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa from McMaster University in 2018. Ishak is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and received the University of California Exemplary Service Award in 2015.
Dr. Ishak has been an adjunct professor with the department of electrical engineering at Stanford University since 2018.