Hossein Taheri is an assistant research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Prior to joining UCR, he was an R&D engineer at Foxconn Interconnect Technology in San Jose CA, working on optical transceivers with a pioneering team which was previously part of organizations known as Avago Technologies (now Broadcom Inc.), Agilent Technologies, and Hewlett Packard (HP) Optical Communications Division. Since 2017, he has also been a consulting scientist with Bioxytech Retina, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2016, he was a visiting scientist at OEwaves Inc., a microwave photonics company in Pasadena CA and the first to commercialize frequency comb generation in high-Q optical microresonators. He received his master's and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering with minor in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta GA, and his bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Tehran. His Ph.D. work focused on frequency comb and ultra-short pulse generation in optical microresonators with Kerr nonlinearity.