Ezra Ip received his B.E. (Hons) degree in electrical & electronics engineering from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2002. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2004 and 2008 from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. His doctoral thesis was on coherent detection and digital signal processing for optical communications. Dr. Ip joined NEC Laboratories America in 2009 and is a senior researcher in the optical networking and sensing department. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers in the areas of high-capacity optical transmission, digital signal processing techniques, space division multiplexing, and distributed fiber sensing. Dr. Ip has served on the topical program committees of OFC, ECOC, APC and other conferences, and is an associated editor of Photonic Technology Letters.
For JLT, he is handling submissions on the following topics:
• Fiber sensing
• Digital signal processing
• Space division multiplexing
• Submarine transmission