Mike Frankel

About Mike Frankel

Michael Y. Frankel is a Ciena Fellow and until recently was Senior Director, Network Technologies. He was responsible for setting the strategic direction for Ciena’s transmission and switching architectures and systems. Michael also lead design of prototype future generation Data Center, AI Clusters, High Performance Computing and WAN networking systems addressing graceful scaling of dynamic network capacity and reducing overall costs, power and complexity. Prior to this position, he was Director of Lightwave Systems Department at Ciena, working on DWDM transport system design and development of network modeling and optimization tools. Before joining Ciena in 1998, Michael spent 7 years at the Department of Defense Naval Research Laboratory. He developed fiber-optic systems for a variety of Navy applications, including communications, antenna remoting, optical sensing, Radar, Electronic Warfare, etc. He has over 60 publications and over 120 granted and pending patents in various areas. Dr. Frankel received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Optics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A senior member of Dr. Frankel received his PhD degree in electrical engineering and optics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in a group of a 2018 Nobel Physics laureate Prof. Gerard Mourou.

Experience

1. Ciena Fellow

   Ciena

   Jun 2015 — Present · Hanover, MD

Education

• University of Michigan

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering; Optics

• University of Rochester

  Master of Science - MS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering; Optics

• University of Maryland

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering