Rod C. Alferness, senior vice president of optical networking research at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, was inducted in January as vice president of the Optical Society of America for 2006. Alferness will be president-elect in 2007 and president in 2008.
An elected member of the OSA board of directors from 2001 through 2003, Alferness has chaired several OSA program committees, including CLEO, photonics in switching, and fellows and honorary members. He was also on the board of editors and the Tyndall Award selection committee. Alferness was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology and an associate editor of Optics Letters and Photonics Technology Letters.
Alferness received his BS in physics in 1968 from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and later earned his masters degree and PhD in physics from the University of Michigan. Alferness is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a fellow...
