Dr. Susanne Arney - Head, Bell Labs North America
Dr. Arney received her
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell
University in 1992, the same year in which she joined AT&T Bell Labs.
She has been
involved in MEMS and NEMS component design, fabrication and reliability
for over 25 years. Susanne is a Bell Labs Fellow.
Until recently, Susanne was Director of the Microsystems and Nanotechnology
Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
In July 2011, Dr. Arney became Head of Bell Labs North America.
Young-Kai Chen,
Director of High Speed Electronics Research, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Dr. Chen received his B.S.E.E. from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan,
and M.S.E.E. from Syracuse University, and Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1988.
From 1980 to 1985, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Electronics Laboratory of General Electric Company,
Syracuse, New York, responsible of the design of silicon and GaAs MMICs for phase array applications.
Since February 1988, he has been with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey as a Member of Technical Staff.
Since 1994, he has been the Director of High Speed Electronics Research.
Dr. Chen was an Adjunct Associated Professor at Columbia University.
His research interest is in high speed semiconductor devices and circuits for wireless and optic fiber
communications. Dr. Chen has contributed to more than 100 technical papers and fifteen
patents in the field of high frequency electronic devices, circuits and semiconductor lasers.
He is a Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of IEEE, the recipient 2002 IEEE David Sarnoff Award and a member
of the National Academy of Engineering.
Nils Weimann, Technical Manager, Enabling Physical Technologies
Dr. Weimann received his Diploma in Physics from Stuttgart University,
Germany in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, in 1999, with a dissertation on microwave frequency GaN power transistors.
Then he joined Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ as a Member of Technical Staff.
His areas of interest include microwave and mm-wave semiconductor device physics and technology,
high speed circuit design, optoelectronic device integration, and nanofabrication.
Since 2002 he is the Technical Manager of the Advanced Compound Semiconductor Electronics
group at Bell Labs, and also manages operations of the Bell Labs Nanofabrication facility.
He has authored and coauthored more than 70 technical papers, and received 5 US patents.