Max Mellette: Improving Data Centers with Photonics

Max Mellette is a postdoctoral researcher in the CSE
department at UC San Diego working with George Porter on data
center network architecture. He received his Ph.D. in Photonics
from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC San
Diego, where he worked on optical switching hardware advised by
Joseph Ford. Before that, he received a Bachelor in Engineering
Physics, also from UC San Diego. Max’s research focuses on
using optical switching to improve the scalability, power
consumption, and cost of data center networks. This involves
working at the physical layer to design and build novel optical
switches up through the transport layer to design high-performance
network architectures compatible with those switches. Series: "UCTV
Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 33423]