Leonid Kazovsky
Stanford University USA

Prof. Leonid Kazovsky joined Stanford University in 1990. He founded Photonics and Networking Research Laboratory (PNRL) at Stanford University and leads PNRL since establishing it in 1990. PNRL is conducting research on green (energy efficient) optical/wireless access, in-building networks, quasi-passive photonic components, and next-generation Internet architectures.
Prior to joining Stanford, Prof. Kazovsky was with Bellcore doing research on coherent, WDM, high-speed and other advanced optical fiber communication systems. Prof. Kazovsky’s research of coherent optical systems resulted in what is widely considered key foundations of modern coherent systems.
Prof. Kazovsky authored or co-authored three books, three book chapters, sixty invited journal papers and invited conference talks, and hundreds of contributed journal and conference technical papers. His latest book, Broadband Optical Access Networks, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2011.
Prof. Kazovsky is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of OSA.
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