Our Keynote Speakers, traveling from overseas, will provide global perspectives on the latest advancements in optical networking.
Elaine Wong
Elaine Wong is Pro Vice Chancellor (People and Equity) at the University of Melbourne and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and IT. Her current research interests include tactile haptic human-to-machine communications over optical and wireless networks. Elaine currently serves on the ARC College of Experts, the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors, and is Chair of the IEEE Communication Society Optical Network Technical Community. She is Technical Editor of IEEE Network and General Chair of Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025. She has previously served on many editorial boards including IEEE/Optica Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, and IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology.
David Plant
David V. Plant has been a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University since 1993. Dr. Plant has a proven research track record that is based on scientific inquiry and engineering execution. He is also an accomplished leader who has created several large broadband communications research initiatives whose objectives are to deliver transformative results for the benefit of Canadians. To date, he has received several national and international awards and he has been recognized with Fellow status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) for his efforts.
Keren Bergman
Keren Bergman is currently the Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where she also serves as the Faculty Director of the Columbia Nano Initiative. Her research interests include ultrafast optical signal processing, WDM optical networking, and optical packet interconnection for high-performance computing. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and currently serves as Chair of the Optical Networks and Systems technical committee for IEEE-LEOS and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Photonic Technology Letters and for the OSA Journal of Optical Networking.
Ben Yoo
S. J. Ben Yoo is currently a Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering with the University of California, Davis, (UCDavis), Davis, CA, USA. His research interests with UC Davis include 2D/3D heterogeneous photonic-electronic integration, energy-efficient computing, neuromorphic computing, data center architectures, elastic optical networking, cognitive networking, non-traditional imaging, RF-photonics, and the future Internet. He is a Fellow member of IEEE and OSA, and was the recipient of the DARPA Award for Sustained Excellence (1997), Bellcore CEO Award (1998), Mid-Career Research Faculty Award (2004 UC Davis), and Senior Research Faculty Award (2011 UC Davis).