Ahmadreza Farsaei has received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has pioneered implementation and adoption of innovative solutions in the domain of Electronic Photonic Design Automation (EPDA) across silicon photonics industry such as electro-optical co-simulation and Virtuoso CurvyCore engine during his time at Ansys (Lumerical) and Cadence Design Systems. He has published more than 10 peer-reviewed articles and journals, one book, and organized many industry-wide workshops in the domain of Electronic-Photonic Design Automation with collaboration of Cadence and Ansys (Lumerical). Ahmadreza is currently Silicon Photonics Tools, Flows, Methods Tech Lead at Intel and acting as CEO, CTO, and founder of LuDALog LLC.

• Introduction.- Curve Implementation.- Path Implementation.- Surface Implementation.- Parameterized Cell (PCells).-Introduction to Design Implementation Using Scripting.- Introduction to Software Development and general Scripting.