Katharine Schmidtke

Biography

Dr. Katharine Schmidtke is co-founder of Eribel Systems and is also serving as Adjunct Professor in Computer and Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Her previous roles include at Meta Platforms, where she directed sourcing strategy for Meta’s AI ASICs, and next generation optical interconnect technology. She has over 25 years’ experience in the Opto-Electronics industry including strategic roles at; New Focus, JDSU Uniphase, and Finisar Corporation. Katharine received a Ph.D. in non-linear optics from Southampton University in the UK and completed post-doctoral research at Stanford University.