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Speakers - Panelists Dr. Frederick Finkelberg CEO of Light Fantastic Technologies
Dr. Valencia Joyner Director of Advanced Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University
Dr. Valencia M. Joyner received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1998 and 1999, respectively. She completed the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2003 at the University of Cambridge, UK and has received several awards for research and academic accomplishments, including the Marshall Scholarship, Intel Foundation Scholarship, and NSF CAREER Award. Her research interests are in the design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging. She is a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, IEEE Photonics Society, and IEEE Women in Engineering – Boston chapter Chair.
Dr. Tim Kane
Professor of
Electrical Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology, Research Associate
at the Applied Research Lab, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Tim Kane earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois in 1992. He works in optical remote sensing/communication instrumentation design, development and deployment. His research also includes the modeling and measurement of atmospheric and oceanic processes.
Dr. Mohsen Kavehrad Director of Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR) and W.L. Weiss Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Mohsen Kavehrad,
is the W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical
Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D.
degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York
University (formerly; Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute) in 1977. Between 1978
and 1981, he worked for Fairchild Industries (Space Communications Division)
and GTE (Satellite Corp. and Labs.). In December 1981, he joined Bell
Laboratories. In March 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical
Engineering at University of Ottawa, as a Full Professor. He was also the
Director of Photonic Networks and Systems Thrust and a project leader in the
Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) and the Director of
Ottawa-Carleton Communications Center for Research (OCCCR). In January 1997,
he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State
University as the W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) Endowed Chair Professor of
Electrical Engineering. In August 1997 he was appointed as the founding
Director of Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR).
During 1997-1998 he was also the CTO and a Vice President at Tele-Beam Inc.,
State College, PA.
His research contributions have been in the fields of: Satellite
communications, Fixed radio communications, Portable and Mobile radio
communications, Atmospheric Laser communications, Fiber optic communications
and fiber optic networks. His current research interests are in the areas
of technologies, systems, and network architectures that enable the vision
of the information age; e.g., Broadband Wireline/Wireless Communications
Networked Systems and Optical Communications Networked Systems. He was
elected a Fellow of the IEEE in January 1992 for his contributions to
Digital Wireless Communications and Optical Fiber Systems and Networks and
he is a Member of the Optical Society of
America (OSA). He
received 3 Exceptional Technical Contributions awards while working at Bell
Laboratories for his works on Wireless Communications Systems, the 1990 TRIO
Feedback award for his patent on a "Passive Optical Interconnect" and the
2001 IEEE VTS Neal Shepherd best propagation paper award and 3 IEEE Lasers
and Electro-Optics Society best paper awards and a Canada NSERC PhD-thesis
gold medal award, jointly with his former graduate students for their works
on wireless and optical systems. He received the 2009 DesignCon Paper Award
in the High-Speed and RF Design Category and he also received the Paper of
the Year Award from ETRI Journal in 2009. His works have been published in
over 350 refereed journal and conference papers, several books and book
chapters, and he holds several key issued patents in these areas. He has been quoted in such internationally circulated publications and
media as the New York Times, Electronics Times, IEEE Communications Society
Industry News Cache, Science Daily Magazine, Wireless News Factor, Photonics
Spectra, TRN News, Laser Focus, Cabling Journal, Scientific American
Journal, EE TIMES in UK and the BBC in London.
Dr. William P Krug Boeing Associate Technical Fellow (ATF), Boeing Research and Technology
Dr William P Krug is an ATF who leads the research and development of advanced optical links. He is responsible for component and photonics chip scale integration of these links into digital and RF optical networks for Avionics, Mission, and Cabin Systems. During Connexion by Boeing development efforts in 2000 to offer passengers wireless services, he pursued the first optically enabled open wired network cabin distribution system. From 2003-2006, he was a PI for a chip scale WDM DARPA program to demonstrate rapid wavelength switching in silicon photonic integrated circuits to improve performance and SWaP for optical networks on military platforms. He provides aerospace guidance to a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) local area network (LAN) SAE standards activity, as the basis for a scalable WDM optical backbone standard for a “wire once, upgrade forever” onboard network solution across military platforms. This is intended to greatly improve SWaP by replacing RF over coax links from video, sensors and comm with lightweight RF over fiber and digital fiber optics links interfaced to a configurable WDM network or spatially switched optical bus. He pursues fiber optics solutions to enable distributed antenna systems for comm, sensing, and network applications. He has consulted for WLED based cabin lighting systems for commercial aircraft applications. He has jointly prototyped, analyzed, and demonstrated an approach to optical wireless data transmission for potential cabin applications. He has over 30 years of experience in photonics, fiber optics, photonic integrated circuits, and optical networking for platform applications. He obtained his PhD in Applied Physics/Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. He holds 10 patents, received 1 Boeing special invention award, and has authored/co-authored over 50 technical/conference papers.
Dr. Zhiwen Liu Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2002. After staying at Caltech for a year as a post-doctoral fellow, he joined the Penn State University in January 2003. His current research is focused on ultra-fast and nonlinear optics. He received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2006.
Dr. Joseph Marron Lockheed Martin Technical Fellow, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies
Dr. Marron studied optics at the University of Rochester. His thesis concerned statistical properties of laser speckle in coherent optical systems. After graduation, he began work at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While at ERIM, he concentrated on the development of unconventional imaging systems. He also progressed from the position of Research Engineer to Department Head. During this time, ERIM transitioned to become part of General Dynamics. In 2000, Dr. Marron started a company called LightGage Inc. to commercialize multi-wavelength interferometry for measurement of precision-machined parts; this technology was licensed to Corning-Tropel Corporation. In 2004, Dr. Marron began working for Coherent Technologies, which is now part of Lockheed Martin. At Lockheed Martin, Dr. Marron has conducted research on coherent imaging systems for long-range surveillance. Specific interests include 3D imaging and imaging through turbulence. Dr Marron is a Lockheed Martin Technical Fellow and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Dr. David T. Neilson
Technical Manager, Efficient
Network Technology Group,
Dr. David T. Neilson joined Bell Laboratories in 1998, Holmdel, NJ, where he worked on MEMS based crossconnects, wavelength selective switches, equalizers, and dispersion compensators. He is currently a Technical Manager leading a group conducting research of highly integrated InP based optoelectronic components and subsystems and with responsibility for optoelectronic device growth and fabrication facility. His research interests also include role of optical interconnects and switching for high capacity optical switches and routers and the energy consumption of networks. Prior to joining Bell Labs he was a Visiting Scientist at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, researching optical interconnects for high-performance computing from 1996 to 1998. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Heriot-Watt University, working on systems and devices for free space optical interconnects and switching. He received the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in physics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in physics for work on optical nonlinearities in InGaAs Quantum well devices from Heriot-Watt University in 1993. He has over 130 publications and 21 issued patents in the field of optical interconnects , switching and optoelectronic devices. Dr. Neilson is a Fellow of IEEE and a Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
Dr. Anthony Ng’oma Senior Research Scientist, Corning Incorporated
Dr. Anthony Ng’oma is a Senior Research
Scientist within the Science and Technology Division at Corning
Incorporated,
Mr. Daniel E. Raible Electronics Engineer, NASA’s Glenn Research Center
Mr. Daniel E. Raible is an Electronics Engineer in the Antenna and Optical Systems Branch at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. His current research interests include self-powered modulated retro reflectors (MRR’s), optical fiber networks and high intensity laser systems. Daniel earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University. He has recently completed a contract for the AFRL to develop and demonstrate a high intensity laser power beaming/communication system.
Dr. Richard D. Roberts Wireless Research Scientist at Intel Labs - Oregon
Dr. Richard D. Roberts is a research scientist in Intel Labs’ Wireless Communications Lab working in the area of short wavelength, highly directional, layer one communications. This includes 60 GHz, Terahertz, and free space optics (FSO) such as visible light communications. He has a Ph.D. from Florida Institute of Technology. He has been working in the area of VLC for several years. He is also the technical editor for the IEEE802.15.7 task group.
Mr. Scott Thompson President, OBERON Inc. - State College, PA.
Mr. Thompson is a founder and president of Oberon, Inc. and is the acting Director of the Products Development Group at Oberon, where he is responsible for creating new products and solutions for the emerging networking and wireless markets. The company has experienced 30% annual growth rates over several years, to over $3.5 million in sales in 2009, from startup in 2001. He has over 25 years of experience in the fields of communications, networking, and electronics hardware/software design and integration, including micro-electronics, wireless components design, network processors, data communications, physical infrastructure components, and systems integration. This experience has included design, test, evaluation, and product commercialization. Customers have included both commercial and the department of defense. He received a BSEE from the Pennsylvania State University in 1981 and an MSEE from Southern Methodist University in 1985. In 2009, Mr. Thompson served on a Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) sub-committee to develop a draft for TIA 1179 “Healthcare Facility Telecommunications Cabling Standard”. Approval of this draft is now pending. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and is the Chairman of the Central Pennsylvania Section of the IEEE, Signal Processing Chapter.
Dr. Thomas E Vandervelde Director of the Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics (REAP) Laboratories and John Adams Endowed Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tufts University
Dr. Vandervelde earned two B.S. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, one in physics and the other in astronomy, both in 1999, his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He is the John Adams Endowed Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tufts University and Director of the Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics (REAP) Laboratories at Tufts University. He joined the faculty at Tufts in 2008. Prior to his present employment, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of New Mexico with Sanjay Krishna in 2007, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with Milton Feng in 2005-6, and University of Virginia with Michael Skrutskie in 2004-5. Additionally, he also was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington and Lee University in 2004-5. He has authored/co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 30 conference presentations, and has one provisional patent. His current and previous research interests are group IV and III-V materials for photo-detectors, photo-voltaics / thermophotovoltiacs, nanophysics/devices, and hetero-integrated circuits. Prof. Vandervelde was recently on the executive committee for the local IEEE LEOS chapter in Albuquerque and in addition to IEEE and IEEE-LEOS, he is a member of APS, SPS, AAS, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, MRS, TMS, AVS, and AAAS.
Dr. Zhengyuan (Daniel) Xu Director of the Multi-campus Center for Ubiquitous Communication by Light (UC-Light) and Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside.
Dr. Zhengyuan (Daniel) Xu received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1989 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, in 1999. From 1991 to 1996, he was a system engineer and department manager at the Tsinghua Unisplendour Group Corporation, Tsinghua University. Since 1999, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, where he is currently a Professor with tenure. He is Director of the Multi-campus Center for Ubiquitous Communication by Light (UC-Light) funded by the University of California Office of the President. His research interests lie in wireless communications, networking, and signal processing. They include multi-user spread spectrum, ultra-wideband, ultraviolet communication, visible light communication, navigation, and optical imaging and sensing. Dr. Xu has served as an associate editor and guest editor for various IEEE journals in communications, vehicle technology, and signal processing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served as an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee, technical program chair, session chair, and technical program committee member for many international conferences.
Dr. Shizhuo (Stuart) Yin Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Yin is a tenured professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993. He has over twenty years of experience developing advanced optical materials, devices, and techniques for optical sensing, communications, and imaging. He authored and co-authored over 100 papers in a variety of prestigious refereed optics journals. He also co-authored three books in optics field: (1) Photorefractive Optics (Academic Press, 2000), (2) Introduction to Information Optics (Academic Press, 2001), and (3) Fiber Optic Sensors (CRC Press, 2008). In the past ten years, he has successfully accomplished over ten research projects, funded a variety of government agencies with a total funding close to $10 million. For his contribution to the optics field, he was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering in 2004 and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2007. He also won a 1996 US Army Young Investigator Award and a 2004 Penn State Engineering Society’s Outstanding Research Award. Dr. Yin also did an excellent job of teaching and advising students. He graduated over 14 Ph.D. and 20 master students in the past decade. |
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