William Terziyan

BaySpec, Inc

William Yang Terziyan, Ph.D., has over 27 years of professional experience managing complex projects to solve real-world optical design, engineering, and manufacturing problems. He holds three degrees in laser physics, electro-optics, and laser spectroscopy (University of Waterloo, Tianjin University). After obtaining his degrees, he had served in various photonics related companies focused on laser and optical instrumentation/development (Leica, Thermawave, KLA Tencor), before becoming the founder of BaySpec, Inc. in 2000.

At BaySpec, Terziyan led the development and commercialization of many disruptive photonics technologies, starting with development of high precision wavelength monitoring devices in the beginning of the fiber optical networks, and expanding into developments in fiber Bragg gratings spectral integrators, miniature Raman spectroscopy, portable mass spectrometry, hyperspectral imaging, and other photonics and optical based techniques and products. He has worked in diverse industries such as analytical instrumentation, semiconductors, telecom, fiber sensing, biomedical, and medical devices.

He is an inventor of more than 36 issued U.S. patents related to photonics techniques, and a creator of more than nine product lines based on photonics technologies.