David G Cunningham

David G. Cunningham (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in laser physics from Queens University Belfast, U.K., in 1985. After graduation, he worked at British Telecommunications Research Laboratories on Lithium Niobate modulators and switches. In 1987, he joined Hewlett-Packard at their laboratories in Bristol, U.K., where he worked with the Networks and Communications Laboratory. He joined Agilent Technologies in 2000 and Avago Technologies in 2005. In 2010, he was made an Avago Technologies Fellow. He retired from Avago Technologies at the end of 2015. He has 29 years’ experience of LAN/MAN standardization. The Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3z), 10Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3ae), and Fibre Channel (INCITS T11) committees recognized his contributions to their standards. In 1999, he has coauthored a book entitled Gigabit Ethernet Networking. For the past 12 years, he has been a Visiting Researcher with The University of Cambridge, where he has spent one day per week hosted by the Photonics Systems group. Within the group, he assists and mentors Ph.D. students and research assistants in the area optical communications and associated signal processing.