Alwyn Seeds received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from
the University of London. In 1980 he was appointed a
Staff Member at Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he worked on GaAs
monolithic millimetre-wave integrated circuits for use
in phased-array radar. He returned to England in 1983 to
take up a lectureship at Queen Mary College, University
of London, moving to University College London in 1986,
where he is now Professor of Opto-electronics and Head
of the Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering. He has published over 300 papers on
microwave and opto-electronic devices and their systems
applications. His current research interests include
III-V semiconductor devices, optical frequency
synthesis, broadband wireless over fibre access systems,
coherent networks, THz photonics and non-linear optical
devices.
Professor Seeds has been elected a Fellow of the Royal
Academy of Engineering (UK) and an IEEE Fellow (USA). He
is a Member of the Board of Governors and Vice-President
for Technical Affairs of the IEEE Photonics Society
(USA). He has served on the programme committees for
many international conferences. He is a co-founder of
Zinwave, a manufacturer of wireless over fibre systems
and founder of PhronTera, a manufacturer of ultra-fast
photonic devices and systems. |
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