He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany and amongst his awards he was a co-recipient of the 2009 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. He is the author of Optical Switching Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Navid Ghazisaidi is a Member of Technical Staff at Verizon, Palo Alto, CA, USA. From 2011 to 2013 he was an R&D Systems Manager and Staff Research Member with Ericsson, San Jose, CA, and Huawei, Santa Clara, CA, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Telecommunications from the University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada and has published/presented over 35 patents, book chapters, and journal/conference papers in systems and networking areas.show more