Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa is a Professor at the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central Florida. He obtained his PhD degree from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton. His Ph.D. was on the development of hollow core fibers. After completing his doctoral research, Rodrigo was as a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Jonathan Knight at the University of Bath, UK. At the University of Bath, he developed hollow core fiber fabrication methods that led to fibers with significantly improved optical properties. He has extensive experience in the design and fabrication of optical fiber and photonic technologies for several applications; including communications, fiber lasers, light sources and sensing systems. Before joining CREOL, he worked at Powerlase Photonics, fabricating high-power diode pumped solid-state lasers. He is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Relativity Networks commercializing hollow-core fiber technology and a fellow of Optica.