IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer,
To be confirmed
Christi Madsen is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Integrated Photonics Research department at Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs where she has demonstrated novel devices for tunable add/drop and dispersion compensation with implementations in planar waveguides, MEMs, photoinduced gratings and thin-film devices. Prior to joining research, she worked for AT&T Submarine Systems. She has coauthored a book entitled Optical Filter Design and Analysis: A Signal Processing Approach and has numerous patents and papers in the field. Dr. Madsen received her B.S.E.E. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986, a M.S.E.E. from Stanford University in 1987, and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1996. She is a fellow of the OSA, a senior member of IEEE and a LEOS Distinguished Lecturer for 2004-2005.