CITRIS Director, UC Davis: Prof. S. J. "Ben" Yoo

Professor S. J. "Ben" Yoo joined UC Davis as an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in March 1999 and has been the CITRIS Director at Davis since its inception.

His current research involves advanced switching techniques and optical communications systems for the Next Generation Internet. Prior to joining UC Davis, he was a Senior Scientist at Bellcore leading technical efforts in optical networking research. His research activities at Bellcore included optical-label switching for the Next Generation Internet, power transients in reconfigurable optical networks, wavelength interchanging cross-connects, wavelength converters, vertical cavity lasers, and high-speed modulators.

Prof. Yoo received the B.S. degree with distinction in Electrical Engineering, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with minor in Physics, all from Stanford University. Prof. Yoo is a senior member of IEEE/LEOS, and a member of OSA and Tau Beta Pi.