3179 Engineering II
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-7063
FAX: (530) 752-8428
Professor S. J. Ben Yoo joined UC Davis as an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in March 1999. His current research involves advanced switching techniques and optical communications systems for the Next Generation Internet. Prior to joining UC Davis, he was a Senior Scientist at Bellcore leading technical efforts in optical networking research. His research activities at Bellcore included optical-label switching for the Next Generation Internet, power transients in reconfigurable optical networks, wavelength interchanging cross-connects, wavelength converters, vertical cavity lasers, and high-speed modulators. He also participated in the ATD/MONET systems integration, the OC-192 SONET Ring studies, and a number of standardization activities. Prior to joining Bellcore in 1991, Prof. Yoo conducted research on nonlinear optical processes in quantum wells, four-wave mixing study of relaxation mechanisms in dye molecules, and ultra-fast diffusion driven photodetectors. During this period, he also conducted research on life-time measurements of intersubband transitions and on nonlinear optical storage mechanisms at Bell Laboratories and at IBM research Laboratories, respectively. Prof. Yoo received the B.S. degree with distinction in Electrical Engineering, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with minor in Physics, all from Stanford University. His Ph.D. thesis at Stanford University was on linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of quantum well intersubband transitions. Prof. Yoo is a senior member of IEEE/LEOS, and a member of OSA and Tau Beta Pi.