夏铁君
夏铁君，男，1955年10月22日生。1982年毕业于中国科技大学，获学士学位。1984年毕业于浙江大学，获硕士学位。1994年毕业于美国中佛州大学，获博士学位。主要研究兴趣：非线性光学。目前在美国中佛州大学光学研究中心工作。
Tiejun J. Xia
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Verizon
Tiejun J. (TJ) Xia, Ph.D., is an expert of photonic technologies and optical fiber communications in research, development, and technology innovations. He currently is a distinguished member of technical staff at Verizon where he is responsible for optical network technology development. Dr. Xia also is an adjunct professor at Miami University in Ohio.
Previously Dr. Xia was director for network technology development at Chorum Technologies. Prior to the position, he worked at MCI. Before joining MCI, he was a research faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas from 2005 through 2009.
Dr. Xia is co-founder and current president of the Advanced Fiber Connectivity & Switching Forum. He has served on technical program committees for OFC/NFOEC, APOC, ACP, OECC, and other conferences. He also serves on the executive board of IEEE Dallas Section.
Dr. Xia has a Ph.D. degree in physics from CREOL (Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers) at the University of Central Florida, an M.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China, and a B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China.
He has published more than 100 technical papers, three book chapters, given numerous invited talks, and holds more than 60 granted or pending U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of OSA. In 2011, he was featured as a “Verizon Innovator” on YouTube.
