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Leda M. Lunardi, co-recipient of an Engineering Achievement Award from the Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), will speak on “Where are the Electronics in Lightwave Communications Systems?” noon today in Acopian Engineering Center room 315.
Free and open to the public, the talk is sponsored by the electrical and computer engineering department.
A IEEE fellow, Lunardi has published over 70 refereed papers and conference talks and holds four patents with one pending. She was co-recipient of the 2000 IEEE/LEOS Engineering Achievement Award for the design and development of high-performance, long-wavelength optical electronic integrated photoreceivers (OEICs). Lunardi has served on a variety of IEEE technical committee conferences. She was the 2001 IEDM Technical Program vice-chair and chair of the 2002 IEEE/Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices. She is an IEEE/EDS elected AdCom member and distinguished lecturer.
Lunardi received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1985 and joined AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., where her research focused on high-speed heterojunction devices, including resonant tunneling structures. In 1990, she joined the Photonics Research Devices Department in Crawford Hill, Holmdel, where she and a co-worker pioneered the long wavelength OEICs for a broad range of applications.
After the AT&T split, Lunardi stayed with AT&T Labs-Research, where her research was in high-speed electronics and regional optical networks. In May 2000, she joined the newly formed Optical Networks Research group in JDS Uniphase in Freehold, N.J., where her research areas are in optical communications, dense wavelength division multiplexing, and high-speed electronics for time division multiplexing.
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