Peter Winzer
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Peter Winzer
Ciena, VP Systems Architecture
About the Speaker
Peter Winzer is Vice President of Systems Architecture at Ciena, where he helps drive Ciena’s AI interconnecs strategy. He joined Ciena as part of the acquisition of Nubis Communications, the company he founded to advance highly integrated, massively parallel optical and electrical communication interfaces. Before founding Nubis, he spent two decades at Bell Labs, where he set multiple high-speed optical transmission records, contributed to major optical product developments, and led fiber-optic transmission research. He has published over 500 scientific papers, holds more than 100 granted patents, and received numerous accolades, including the John Tyndall Award, Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of IEEE, Optica, and the US National Academy of Inventors. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and holds an honorary doctorate from TU Eindhoven. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, Program Chair of ECOC, and Program/General Chair of OFC. Peter earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from TU Vienna.
