C. Randy Giles

C. Randy Giles has a wealth of experience in the optics and photonics field. Starting in 1983, they worked as a Member of Scientific Staff at Bell Northern Research where they developed Northern Telecom's first gigabit/s laser transmitters and developed statistical models of mode-partition noise in Fabry-Perot and DFB lasers. In 1986, they joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff and achieved several technical accomplishments, including the first demonstration of data amplification and lightwave system performance of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier and the development of the industry-standard erbium-doped fiber amplifier model. In 2009, they were appointed President of Bell Labs Seoul at Alcatel-Lucent, where they were responsible for staffing and managing the facility with PhD-level researchers focused on broadband services and their enabling technologies. In 2013, they became the APAC Open Innovation Director at Nokia Bell Labs. From 2016 to 2020, they served as the Chief Scientist of the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory and as Senior Science Advisor at Optica (formerly the Optical Society (OSA)). In 2020, they became the Director of Micro-Optical Design at Nubis Communications.

C. Randy Giles received their BSc in Physics from the University of Victoria in 1976, followed by an MSc in Physics from the same university in 1978. C. Randy then went on to receive their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Alberta in 1983. Prior to their university studies, they attended school in Castlegar.