He received a PhD degree in physics from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 2000. He conducted his PhD research at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center) focusing on the development of a spectroscopic photon-emission microscopy technique to study CMOS device reliability. Dr. Rasras has more than 11 years of industrial research experience. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, NJ, USA. His research spanned a wide range of activities towards the development of novel photonic components for next-generation optical and microwave photonic networks. This includes silicon photonics, opto-electronics, optical transceivers, photonic sensors, and all-optical logic technology for high-speed data encryption. He also developed a novel linearized optical FM discriminator for microwave photonics applications.