Benjamin G. Lee

I received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, in 2004 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 2006. 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. I study  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, my focus is on both active and passive silicon photonic devices in integrated optical networks, the electro-optic interfaces between the electrical and optical communications endpoints, and also how semiconductor optical amplifiers can be utilized effectively in these scalable optical packet-switching applications.