Tangla D. Kongnyuy was born in Jakiri, West Cameroon, in 1986. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the Anglo-Saxon University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree in photonics from Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in 2014. In 2014, he started TANGLATEC, an engineering consulting company in Ghent. He is currently working on optical characterization and automation of advanced measurement systems that are used for the characterization and validation of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) at IMEC.