Farzan Gity (S’10) was born in London, U.K., in 1979. He received the B.S. degree from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2003, the M.Sc. degree from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from the Photonics Centre, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, in 2013, all in electronics engineering.