Guest Editorial of 100G and Beyond: Trends in Ultrahigh-Speed Communications (Part II)
Gee-Kung Chang1 and Jianjun Yu2
1. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2. ZTE Corporation, USA
Online:2012-09-25
Published:2012-09-25
About author:Gee-Kung Chang received his PhD degree in physics from the University of California, Riverside. He worked for 23 years at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Systems-Bell Labs, and then Bellcore), where he held research and management positions, including director and chief scientist of optical internet research, director of optical networking systems and testbed, and director of optical system integration and network interoperability. Prior to joining Georgia Institute of Technology, he was vice president and chief technology strategist at OpNext Inc., an offshoot of Hitachi Telecom. Dr. Chang is currently the Byers endowed chair professor of optical networking at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an eminent scholar of the Georgia Research Alliance. He is also co-director of the 100G Optical Networking Center at Georgia Tech. He holds 56 U.S. patents and has co-authored more than 360 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He was made a Telcordia Fellow in 1999 for pioneering work in the optical networking project, MONET, and NGI. He was made a fellow of the Photonic Society of Chinese-Americans in 2000. He is a fellow of the IEEE Photonics Society and a fellow of the Optical Society of America, recognized for his contributions to DWDM optical networking and label switching technologies. He has served at many IEEE LEOS and OSA conferences. He has been the lead guest editor for three special issues of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, which is sponsored by IEEE LEOS and OSA.
Jianjun Yu received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1999. From June 1999 to January 2001, he was an assistant research professor at the Research Center COM, Technical University of Denmark. From February 2001 to December 2002, he was a member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems, Murray Hill, NJ. He joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in January 2003 as a research faculty member and director of the Optical Network Laboratory. From November 2005 to February 2010, he was a senior member of technical staff at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ. Currently, he works for ZTE Corporation as the chief scientist on high-speed optical transmission and director of optics labs in North America. He is also a chair professor at Fudan University and adjunct professor and PhD supervisor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Hunan University. He has authored more than 100 papers for prestigious journals and conferences. Dr. Yu holds 8 U.S. patents with 30 others pending. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. He is editor-in-chief of Recent Patents on Engineering and an associate editor for the Journal of Lightwave Technology and Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. Dr. Yu was a technical committee member at IEEE LEOS from 2005 to 2007 and a technical committee member of OFC from 2009 to 2011.
