Waguih S Ishak

Bio

Waguih is a retired executive with more than 47 years of R&D experience with high-tech companies in silicon valley. He received his B.Sc. Honor in EE from Cairo University in 1971, his B.Sc. in Math Honor from Ein Shams University in 1973, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in EE from McMaster University, Canada in 1975, 1978 respectively. Waguih completed the Stanford Executive Program (SEP) from Stanford's Graduate School of Business in 1999 and the D.Sc. (honoris Causa) from McMaster University in 2018.

Waguih joined HP Labs in 1978 and became the Director of the Photonics & Electronics Research Lab in 1995. In 1999, he joined Agilent Labs as the VP of the Communications and Optics Research Lab and in 2005 he became the VP and CTO of Avago Technologies (now Broadcom). In 2007, Waguih joined Corning Incorporated and established the Corning West Technology Center in Palo Alto, California.

Waguih's leadership experience spans a wide range of technologies such as Photonics, Optoelectronics, High Speed Electronics, Acoustics and Magnetics. His research teams of scientists, engineers, managers, technicians and administrators were responsible for generating an array of technologies for products like lightwave instruments, electronics & microwave test and measurements, optical and wireless communications subsystems, the optical mouse, the laser mouse and computer optical interconnects.

Waguih is a Life Fellow of IEEE and received the Exemplary Service Award from UCSB in 2015. Waguih was inducted a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 2020, was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2022, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science) in 2024, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), the United Kingdom, in 2024. Waguih was the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society Industry Achievement Award in 2024.

Waguih lives with his family in Silicon Valley.