Dimitri Unuchek joins Dipole Labs as Founding Engineer

Dimitri Unuchek has joined Dipole Labs as a Founding Engineer. He will lead hardware R&D and help build our engineering team, starting in Lausanne.

Background

Dimitri holds a PhD from EPFL in optoelectronics, where he demonstrated the first room-temperature excitonic transistor (Nature, 2018). His research on 2D optoelectronics led to more than 10 papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Photonics and Nature Nanotechnology.

He then spent 6 years at H.Glass/Freshape. He started as an optical scientist and grew to R&D Director, leading a 30-person division across optics, semiconductors and photovoltaics. He took several products from proof of concept to industrialization, and co-authored 10 patent applications. Dimitri brings all this experience to tackle with Dipole one of the biggest challenges of our era, the scaling of AI.

In his words

"I started in device physics and photonics, then spent years turning optics into products. Optical switching for AI data centers brings both together, and it is likely the hardest problem I have worked on. Now I'm excited to build the team that will solve it."

What's next

At Dipole, Dimitri drives product and technology development for our first optical switch. Dimitri is now helping to build the team that will make it happen, with open roles in optical systems, device physics, process and test.

“We’re very excited to welcome Dimitri to Dipole as our first founding engineer. He brings tremendous experience and talent, along with the work ethic and commitment to excellence that match the ambition of what we’re building.”

Gabriele Pasquale, Co-founder and CTO of Dipole