Cedric F. Lam

Cedric Fung Lam (cflam@ieee.org) received B. Eng. (with first class honors) and Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong and UCLA respectively, all in electrical engineering. He is now Principal Engineer (Director) in the Google Platforms and Infrastructure Engineering team, where he is focused on the development of next generation datacenter networking architectures and interconnect technologies. He was a co-founder of the Google Fiber program which changed the landscape of broadband access networks in North America with the introduction of nationwide Gigabit FTTH networks. Before joining Google, Cedric worked at AT&T and Opvista, a DWDM startup company. He is a Fellow of Optica and a committee member of the Optica Corporate Engagement Council. He served on many technical conference committees and the editorial board of OSA JON (Journal of Optical Networking), the predecessor of JOCN. He also published two textbooks in fiber access networks.