Dr. Stephen Ralph

Biography

Stephen E. Ralph is a Professor and Endowed Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his BEE degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Tech in 1980 and completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University in 1988, specializing in highly nonequilibrium carrier transport in semiconductor devices. He is currently the director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center, which is a cross-disciplinary electronics-photonics research center focused on the synergistic development of high-speed electronic components and signal processing to enable revolutionary system performance. Professor Ralph is the founder and director of the new Terabit Optical Networking Consortium, an industry-led consortium in communications and information technology. Additionally, he has held a postdoctoral position at AT&T Bell Laboratories and worked as a visiting scientist at the Optical Sciences Laboratory at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. With over 320 published peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, along with 14 patents in the fields of optical communications, optical devices, and signal processing, he has significantly contributed to the field. Ralph has mentored more than 20 Ph.D. students and his current research interests include high-capacity optical systems interconnects, particularly at the intersection of electronics, photonics, and integrated photonics, with a key focus on innovation in signal processing and machine learning.

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