About
Cathy Chen is a 4th year PhD Candidate in the Lightwave Research Labratory at Columbia University.
Cathy graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in May 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Asian Studies. While at Cornell University, Cathy completed undergraduate research in the Computer Systems Labratory, earning Engineering Learning Initiative Scholarships from Intel her Junior and Senior years.
Cathy started graduate studies at Columbia University in the City of New York in the Fall of 2009, earning her Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering in February 2011. She is a student member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineer's Photonic Society, the OSA, the European Opical Society, and the Society of Women Engineers. Cathy is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the Lightwave Research Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Keren Bergman, with a research interest in optical interconnects for High Performance Computing and Datacenter networks. In the Fall of 2011 she started research under a NSF Graduate Research Diversity Supplement.
Outside of research, she is also currently the Vice President of the Engineering Graduate Student Council in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Cathy also takes part in recruiting activities for the School, recruiting with Dean Tiffany Simon at the Society of Women Engineers annual national conference. She is currently the Secretary of external affairs of the Columbia chapter of the OSA, as well as the Chair of the NSF ERC CIAN Student Leadership Council. In the summer of 2008, she was a Program Manager intern at Microsoft in Redmond, WA in the diagnostics team of the Core Operating System Division of Windows.
Cathy graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in May 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Asian Studies. While at Cornell University, Cathy completed undergraduate research in the Computer Systems Labratory, earning Engineering Learning Initiative Scholarships from Intel her Junior and Senior years.
Cathy started graduate studies at Columbia University in the City of New York in the Fall of 2009, earning her Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering in February 2011. She is a student member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineer's Photonic Society, the OSA, the European Opical Society, and the Society of Women Engineers. Cathy is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the Lightwave Research Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Keren Bergman, with a research interest in optical interconnects for High Performance Computing and Datacenter networks. In the Fall of 2011 she started research under a NSF Graduate Research Diversity Supplement.
Outside of research, she is also currently the Vice President of the Engineering Graduate Student Council in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Cathy also takes part in recruiting activities for the School, recruiting with Dean Tiffany Simon at the Society of Women Engineers annual national conference. She is currently the Secretary of external affairs of the Columbia chapter of the OSA, as well as the Chair of the NSF ERC CIAN Student Leadership Council. In the summer of 2008, she was a Program Manager intern at Microsoft in Redmond, WA in the diagnostics team of the Core Operating System Division of Windows.