Aaron Zilkie

Aaron is co-founder and CTO Photonics at Rockley Photonics and currently leads Rockley’s internal next-gen technology/R&D team developing novel integrated photonics technologies for high-growth product solutions. He has led the early core photonic platform and IP portfolio developments at Rockley. 

Aaron brings over 22 years of experience and leadership in technology innovation, R&D, new product development, and IP portfolio development in a broad range of optics and photonics application areas including biosensing, healthcare monitoring, 3D imaging, LiDAR, data communications, high performance computing, and fiber optic networks.

Aaron holds over 40 granted U.S. patents, has authored numerous journal publications and white papers, and given numerous invited conference presentations on Rockley’s technology. Aaron holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba.