Profile: Sean Koehl

Sean is a technology evangelist in the Intel labs working to increase industry awareness of Intel’s future technology research and vision. Currently he works to evangelize the latest trends, strategies, and advancements in areas such as “Tera-scale” many-core processors, silicon photonics, and emerging “immersive connected experiences” such as virtual worlds and augmented reality.

Sean joined Intel in 1998 as an engineer working on silicon optical debug and spent the next five years contributing to the design, packaging and research of silicon devices for Intel’s Photonics Technology Lab. Later, as a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Sean worked to educate the public on Intel’s breakthroughs in the area of silicon photonics. Sean received a B.S. in Applied Physics from Purdue University and holds five patents in the area of silicon-based optoelectronics.