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Dr. Adel Saleh

Dr. Saleh joined DARPA's Strategic Technology Office as a Program Manager in January 2005. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Founding Partner of Monarch Network Architects, Holmdel, New Jersey. From 2002 to 2003 he was Chief Scientist and Vice President of Network Architecture of Kirana Networks, Red Bank, New Jersey. From 1999 to 2002, he was Vice President and Chief Network Architect of the Corvis Corporation, Columbia, Maryland. Between 1991 and 1999 he was a Department Head at AT&T Bell Labs / AT&T Labs, Holmdel and Murray Hill, New Jersey, conducting and leading research on the technologies, architectures and applications of optical backbone and access networks. From 1970 to 1991 he was a Member of the Technical Staff of AT&T Bell Labs, Crawford Hill Lab, Holmdel, New Jersey, conducting research on microwave, wireless and optical communications systems, subsystems, components and devices.

Dr. Saleh led the AT&T effort on several cross-industry DARPA consortia on optical networks, which pioneered the vision and built proof-of-concept testbeds for all-optical networking in backbone, regional, metro and access networks.

Dr. Saleh was a member of the Networks, Access and Switching Subcommittee of OFC 1995-1997, the Chair of the same Subcommittee for OFC 1998, the Technical Program Co-Chair of OFC 1999, the General Program Co-Chair of OFC 2001, and a Member of the OFC Steering Committee from 2001 to 2006. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE J-SAC Optical Communications and Networking Series from 2002 to 2005. He has published more than 100 papers and talks and holds more than 20 patents. He holds Ph.D. and S.M. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.Sc. Degree, First Class Honors, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. He received the AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Technical Staff Award for Sustained Achievement in 1985, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.