Dr. Suresh Subramaniam, Ph.D.

ABSTRACT: Fiber optic transmission has dominated long-distance communications for several decades. Numerous technological advances which have tremendously increased the reach, speed, and reliability of optical communications have constantly out paced by the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. More recently, optical transmission has expanded its reach into metro and access networks.

In this second of a two-part lecture series, the focus will be on some recent advancements in optical switching and transmission that have enabled the allocation of spectrum to optical connections at a much finer granularity than traditional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM).  Elastic optical networks employ such a transmission and switching due to their ability to fit the spectrum to the demanded bandwidth.

Biography:

Dr. Suresh Subramaniam received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1997.  He is the Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University, Washington DC, where he directs the Lab for Intelligent Networking and Computing.  His research interests are in the architectural, algorithmic, and performance aspects of communication networks, with current emphasis on optical networks, cloud computing, data center networks, and IoT.  He has published about 225 peer-reviewed papers in these areas. In addition, Dr Subramaniam has received several grants from the US National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in support in his research.

Dr. Subramaniam is a co-editor of three books on optical networking.  He has served in leadership positions for several top conferences including IEEE ComSoc’s flagship conferences of ICC, Globecom, and INFOCOM.  He serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. During 2012 and 2013, he served as the elected Chair of the IEEE Communication Society Optical Networking Technical Committee. He received the 2017 SEAS Distinguished Researcher Award from George Washington University, and was named Fellow of the IEEE in 2015 for his “contributions to optical networks, architectures, algorithms, and performance modeling!”