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Julie Eng

Optica Executive Forum at OFC 2025

31 March 2025


Julie Eng

Coherent, CTO

About the Speaker

Julie Sheridan Eng was named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coherent in 2022.  Prior to becoming CTO, Dr. Eng served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Coherent/II-VI’s Optoelectronic Devices and Modules Business Unit. Prior to joining II-VI through the II-VI acquisition of Finisar, Dr. Eng worked at Finisar, serving most recently as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Finisar’s 3D Sensing Business Unit, and prior to that, as Executive Vice President of Datacom Engineering.  Prior to joining Finisar, Dr. Eng was part of AT&T/Lucent/Agere, where she managed datacom transceivers. 

Dr. Eng is a Past Chair of the IEEE Committee on Women in Engineering and presently serves on the Board of Directors of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America). She holds a B.A. degree in Physics from Bryn Mawr College and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).  She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.  In 2022, she was elected Fellow of Optica for distinguished contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics.

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