Keynote Speakers

Joseph M. Kahn is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His current research is on optical communication in single-mode fibers, multi-mode fibers and free-space links, addressing modulation, coding, detection, signal processing and spatial multiplexing methods. He received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1981 and 1986. From 1987-1990, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, in Holmdel, NJ. From 1990-2003, he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at U.C. Berkeley. In 2000, he co-founded StrataLight Communications, which was acquired by Opnext, Inc. in 2009. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.