Dr. Bei Shi is currently an associate professor at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Dr. Shi obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2018) where he worked on epitaxial growth, device design, fabrication and characterization of III-V quantum dot lasers on silicon substrates. Post graduation, he was a postdoc and later a research scientist at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he led the effort in realizing III-V based photonic devices on industrial-standard Si substrates by heteroepitaxy. Dr. Shi has 13 years of experience in photonic material growth by MOCVD and device design and fabrication. His research interest includes manufacturing quantum dot lasers, modulators, detectors from material growth to device characterization, and their heterogeneous integration with other photonics platforms (e.g. silicon photonics, lithium niobate photonics) for PIC demonstrations. Prior to joining UTA, he was a principal scientist at Aeluma Inc., a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor photonics company incubating scalable semiconductors for emerging photonics applications. His work was funded by DARPA, AFRL, NSF, and NASA. He has published more than 80 papers, held several patents, and served as guest editors and reviewers for high impact journals.