Dr. Baris I. Erkmen
05 June 2025
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Dr. Baris I. Erkmen
Aalyria Technologies - Chief Technical Officer
About the Speaker
Dr. Baris I. Erkmen has been active in the development of advanced optical communication systems for two decades. He is presently CTO at Aalyria Technologies, driving the development of lasercom technology for land, air, maritime, and space.
Before joining Aalyria, Baris was the CEO of Hedron Space (2022-2023), developing an optical data-relay network for Earth-observation satellites. His past responsibilities include Engineering Director of Project Taara at X (2017-2022), where he developed a high-performance wireless optical communication product for terrestrial broadband networks that has been deployed in hundreds of locations around the world to date. Prior to that he was the Engineering Lead for Project Loon’s Free-Space Optical Communications team (2013-2016), where he developed laser communication technology for a stratospheric platform and demonstrated it over thousands of km's of flights. Baris has also been the Principal Investigator for NASA’s OPALS laser communication mission (2009-2013), which successfully demonstrated optical downlinks from the International Space Station to Earth. In 2022, Baris was elected Fellow of Optica for contributions to the advancement of wireless optical communication systems.
Baris’s interests encompass the application of both classical and quantum properties of light to enhance communication and sensing capabilities for terrestrial, airborne, and spaceborne systems.
● Email address: baris@aalyria.com
