Stewart D. Personick

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Dr. Stewart D. Personick is a noted American researcher in optical communications.

Personick graduated from the City College of New York with bachelor of electrical engineering degree. After receiving his PhD in 1969 from MIT, he worked at Bell Labs, TRW, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), researching optical fiber receiver design, propagation in multi-mode optical fibers, time-domain reflectometry, and the end-to-end modeling of optical communications. From 1984-1998 he served as Vice President of Bellcore, and subsequently held academic positions at Drexel University and the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Personick became an IEEE Fellow in 1983, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1988, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1992. In 2000 he received the IEEE/OSA John Tyndall Award.

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