Andrew Lord

BT Group, United Kingdom

Biography:

Andrew Lord received the B.A.(Hons.) degree in physics from Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., in 1985, and joined BT after graduation. He worked on all implementations of DWDM technology since then, including large subsea systems, such as TAT14 as well as national and the Ministry of Defense DWDM networks. He has helped to lead the EU collaborative projects NOBEL, STRONGEST, and currently IDEALIST. He currently serves on the technical subcommittees of several conferences and is the Core Networks Subcommittee Chair for the ECOC 2013 and was the OFC Technical Program Committee Chair for 2015. He is a Visiting Professor at Essex University, Colchester, U.K., and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 

Roland Ryf

Nokia Bell Labs, United States

Biography:

Roland Ryf received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Interstate University of Applied Sciences of Technology, Buchs, Switzerland, in 1990 and the M.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in physics, working on photorefractive self-focusing and spatial solitons, parallel optical processing based on holographic storage, and fast optical correlation, in 1995 and 2000, respectively.,Since May 2000, he has been working in the Photonic Subsystem Department at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ, where he is focusing on the optical design and prototyping of optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based switches, spectral filters, and dispersion compensators, and the demonstration of their applications in optical networks.

Lars Thylén

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Biography:

Lars Thylén received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics (optics), both from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972 and 1982, respectively. From 1973 to 1982, he was with SRA Communications, working in the areas of digital electronics, digital image processing, diffraction optics, and optical signal processing. From 1976 to 1982, he was with the Institute of Optical Research, Stockholm, involved in research in integrated photonics. In 1982, he joined Ericsson, heading a group doing research in the area of integrated photonics. In 1992, he was appointed as a Professor of photonics and microwave engineering with KTH and was heading the Laboratory of Photonics and Microwave Engineering until retirement 2014. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Director of the Strategic Research Center in Photonics, KTH, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Since 2014, he has been a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, KTH. Since 2008, in addition to his position at KTH, he has been with Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA. His current research interests include nanophotonics, integrated photonics for interconnects, devices for photonic switching, and high-speed modulation, notably in data center environments. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 journal papers and conference contributions, and several book chapters as well as coauthored one book. He was the General Cochair and the Technical Program Committee Chair of the ECOC 2004, Stockholm, and the General Chair for the 2008 Asia Pacific Optical Communications Conference in China. He is a Member of the Optical Society of America and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.