IEEE Photonics Society @ UCF: General Body Meeting
We welcome you to the final GBM of the semester!
We will open up our meeting with some announcements, followed by a presentation by IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Daniel Kuchta, who will be giving a 30-year perspective on doing corporate research. We will end with open questions and answers, which may be submitted in advance using this link.
Hope to see you there!
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- 4304 Scorpius Street
- Orlando, Florida
- United States 32816
- Building: CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics
- Room Number: 102/103
- Starts 05 October 2026 04:00 AM UTC
- Ends 06 November 2026 05:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Daniel Kuchta
Benefits and Challenges of working in Corporate Research: A 30-year perspective.
Research in a corporate environment usually requires a PhD. This talk will start with the decision to pursue a PhD and the benefit of being an IEEE student member. It will then focus on how to build a successful career in a corporate research environment that faces constant external market pressures and how to bring technology out of a lab an into a product. It draws on my 32-year experience at IBM Research. It will also cover my involvement with optical conference committees.
Biography:
Daniel M. Kuchta (IEEE Fellow 2019) is a Principal Hardware System Architect at Nvidia. Previously he was a Research Staff Member in the Communications and Computation Subsystems Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center since 1992. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986, 1988, and 1992, respectively. While at IBM Research he has worked on high-speed VCSEL characterization, multimode fiber links, parallel fiber optic links, and optics co-packaging technology research. He received IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology best paper award in 2014 and in 2018 was the first recipient of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters best paper award. He was Technical Program Chair for OFC 2018 and General Chair for OFC 2020. Dr. Kuchta is an author/coauthor of more than 145 technical papers and inventor/co-inventor of at least 40 patents.
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