David Piehler
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24 - 25 October, 2023
Juniper Networks -Aspiration Dome
Sunnyvale, California USA
Events
David Piehler
DELL, Distinguished Engineer, Optics
About the Speaker
David Piehler is a Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies' Infrastructure Systems Group where he focuses on high-speed optical fiber transmission between and within datacenters, and increasingly as part of AI/HPC cluster fabrics. Previous positions include Chief Scientist at NeoPhotonics (NPTN, acquired by Lumentum in 2022); Vice President, Broadband Access Networks R+D at Harmonic, Inc. (HLIT) and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley for experimental research in nonlinear optics.