Benjamin G. Lee

I received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, in 2004 and the M.S. and M. Phil. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University. My research is centered around the problem of interconnecting large numbers of users in very short-reach applications such as high-performance computing systems. I am interested in studying how revolutionary optical technologies can be leveraged in order to provide these network users with immense throughput bandwidths and low access latencies, while requiring very low power consumption. Specifically, much of my research focuses on using both active and passive silicon photonic devices in integrated optical networks-on-chip, including how to implement the electro-optic interfaces between the electrical and optical communications endpoints and how to layout entire network topologies in a way that obtains the most optimal performance for the photonic layer.