Shalini Venkatesh, Ph.D.
Shalini Venkatesh is a physicist with a background in optical sensors, fiberoptic and waveguide devices, optical communications, and medical physics.
Dr. Venkatesh holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Aston in Birmingham. Her postgraduate work began in medical applications of physics, including experimental laser therapies, and moved into silicon micromachined fiberoptic sensor systems. After spending several years doing government and industry-sponsored research in academia, and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Dr. Venkatesh moved from the United Kingdom to the USA to join HP Labs in Palo Alto, working first as a Hardware Design Engineer, and then as a Principal Project Scientist. Her key projects for HP Labs, subsequently Agilent Labs and finally Avago Technologies, were in the fields of reflectometry and optical devices and systems, including optical switches, optical sensor systems, and LEDs.
She is an author/co-author of 17 refereed publications in areas of medical physics, vacuum physics, MEMS, fiber-optics and optical devices. She has made over 20 presentations at international conferences and workshops including invited talks and tutorials.
She is an inventor/co-inventor on 17 issued patents in areas of optical sensors, switches, mice and image sensors.
Since leaving corporate R&D in 2006, Dr. Venkatesh has played a different role in the Intellectual Property field, becoming a USPTO-registered patent agent, and prosecuting many hundreds of patent applications, including writing appeal briefs and drafting and filing new patent applications in technology areas including solid state devices, sensors, telecommunications, bioinformatics, test and measurement, optical devices, lighting systems, and medical devices. As a core-team member for SmallTech Consulting over that same period, Dr. Venkatesh has consulted on a variety of technical contracts, including technical assessment of client IP portfolios.
SPECIALTIES
- Physics, Fiber/waveguide Optics, Sensors, Intellectual Property
