Thomas E. Darcie (Ted) received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from University of Waterloo in 1978, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace from the University of Toronto in 1982. He then joined the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill, Holmdel, NJ, to study a wide variety of topics related to lightwave telecommunications, including fiber fabrication processes, semiconductor lasers, optical amplifiers, and numerous modulation and multiplexing techniques. He has been a lead figure in the development of lightwave networks for broadband access, cable television and wireless communications.
As head of access communications research at AT&T Bell Labs (1989-1995), he was responsible for technology innovation in wireless, lightwave and hybrid fiber-coax systems. He has over one hundred technical publications and 35 patents spanning this broad set of technologies.
As AT&T Labs Vice President and Director of the Communications Infrastructure Research Lab (1995-2002), he led a research laboratory that provided technology support for AT&T’s diverse requirements in optical networking, broadband access, fixed wireless access, wireless local-area networks, and cellular systems. His team worked closely with AT&T businesses to provide technical expertise and vision, with numerous programs devoted to the evolution of mobile and broadband services, applications, and technologies.
From 2002-2003, as AT&T Labs Vice President and Director of Innovative Network Technologies, he was responsible for connecting emerging networking technologies with the evolution of AT&T’s network, with emphasis on last-mile access network strategy and the transition to a more operationally efficient data-centric network architecture.
As a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (2003-2017) at University of Victoria his research program focuses on systems for communications, broadband access and real-time networks, optical imaging, microwave photonics, and terahertz photonics. He is an AT&T Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and an alumnus of the National Academy of Engineering – Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB). As founding Director of Engineering Entrepreneurship@UVic he co-founded and serves as an advisor to several companies. He has collaborated with Microsoft Research as a visiting scientist since 2015. To address the recent shortage of talented Data Scientists, he led in the creation of UVic’s Masters of Engineering in Applied Data Science (web site under construction) and Matrix Institute for Applied Data Science which he co-directs.
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