Meet and Greet: Dr. Jun Shan Wey
Join the IPS Chapter of the and the WIE affinity group of IEEE Montréal Sectionm, with STARACOM, for a professional development talk by Dr. Jun Shan Wey, Verizon.
Shan Wey will discuss the lessons she has learned throughout her career and how choices she made, opportunities she took advantage of, and the people she met along the way have influenced her career. She will share why working hard is not enough, but you must be curious, try something scary, believe in yourself and step up to lead.
This event will be preceeded by a technical talk. Registration is open, please note different time and location in the sign-up below
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/326285
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- Date: 14 Oct 2022
- Time: 12:15 PM to 02:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- 817 Sherbrooke St W
- McGill University
- Montréal, Quebec
- Canada
- Building: MacDonald Engineering Building
- Room Number: MD267
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- Co-sponsored by STARaCom
- Starts 09 October 2022 08:45 AM
- Ends 14 October 2022 12:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Jun Shan Wey of Verizon
Meet our Speaker Dr. Jun Shan Wey, Distinguished Engineer, Verizon.
Join us to hear from Shan Wey, as she discusses the lessons she has learned throughout her career and how choices she made, opportunities she took advantage of, and the people she met along the way have influenced her career. She will share why working hard is not enough, but you must be curious, try something scary, believe in yourself and step up to lead.
Biography:
Jun Shan Wey is a Distinguished Engineer in the Technology Strategy, Architecture and Planning team at Verizon. After receiving her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineer from the University of Maryland, College Park, she has devoted her career to optical communications research and development. Her current work focuses on standardization and industry ecosystem development for high-speed broadband optical access and transport networks, as well as 5G video media verticals.
She participates in many standards groups, including FSAN, ITU-T, IEEE, 3GPP, ATIS, and has served as an editor for several ITU-T PON standards. Shan has been active in the OFC conference program as a 2020 Program Chair, a 2022 General Chair, the 2022 John Tyndall Award Selection Committee Chair, and a current member of the OFC Steering Committee. She also co-chairs the IEEE INGR Optics Working Group. Shan is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of Optica.