Kate Bechtel
Rockley Photonics, Senior Director, Advanced Sensing
About the Speaker
Kate Bechtel, PhD, is currently Senior Director, Advanced Sensing at Rockley Photonics where she leads next-generation product development. Prior to joining Rockley in mid 2021, she was Biophotonics Fellow at Triple Ring Technologies, an engineering services firm, where she worked since completing her postdoc in 2007 at MIT in the Spectroscopy Laboratory. Her PhD was in Chemistry, with optical instrumentation focus, at Stanford.
Kate’s expertise is in developing biophotonic devices for the medical and wellness markets. She is application-focused and technology agnostic, addressing user needs with cutting-edge advances and algorithm development. She takes products from early phase concept ideation through prototype development, feasibility assessment, clinical studies, regulatory submissions, and transfer to manufacturing.
