Tatiana Berdinskikh 
Founder and Chief Consultant, Novophotonics Consulting

Tatiana has 25 years of experience in fiber optics, telecommunications, optoelectronics and photonics. The majority of her career in manufacturing optical systems was with Celestica, a long-term INEMI member. While with Celestica she contributed to the start of the INEMI optoelectronics program, leading a number of projects addressing cleanliness and assembly issues. She also contributed to the development of several INEMI Optoelectronics roadmaps. Most recently, she has represented INEMI member Senko Advanced Components as a consultant on several INEMI optoelectronics projects.

INEMI Project Leadership

Tatiana has acted as chair or co-chair of many INEMI optoelectronics projects since the mid 2000s. The projects she has led and contributed to have helped address challenges to optics system manufacturing and several have proposed new test methods that were well-received by the industry. She has produced award-winning technical papers based on INEMI project work and has interfaced with standards development bodies such as the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission). She is a long-term participant in the INEMI Optoelectronic Technology Integration Group (TIG) and chaired the group for a number of years. Her contributions include:

• Led the development of the INEMI optoelectronics program
• Developed an active optoelectronic manufacturing ecosystem, recruiting a number of new members
• Served as liaison with standards bodies, reporting INEMI project outcomes and results to IEC and other standards groups to drive faster standards development 
• Actively supports INEMI by promoting project work and regularly authors and/or contributes to papers from the projects and presents them at global conferences

Contributions to the Electronics Manufacturing Ecosystem

Tatiana has co-authored more than 50 journal publications and conference papers in the field of optoelectronics and photonics and was a co-author of the book Degradation of Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes and Lasers. 

Tatiana is the Canadian Technical Expert for standards activities of IEC SC 86B, SC 86C, and a Chair of the Canadian Mirror Committee of SC 86B. In 2016, she received the IEC 1906 Award for her contribution to the development of cleanliness specifications of fiber optic connectors. Her work and leadership are driving faster development of cleanliness-related standards in optical systems and her role on the IEC committee has helped bring high-volume manufacturing and the optics world together.