Michael Vasilyev joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 2003, where he is currently a Professor. He is also a Fellow of the OPTICA (formerly known as OSA) and SPIE, and a Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics and Communication Societies. He received his M.S. degree (diploma) summa cum laude in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1999. After joining Corning Inc.’s Photonic Research and Test Center (Somerset, NJ) as a Senior Research Scientist in 1999, he performed experimental and theoretical studies of fiber transmission issues, noise and nonlinearities in Raman and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), and architectures for ultra-long-haul dense wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) networks. His main research interests include experimental and theoretical nonlinear, quantum and fiber optics and nanophotonics, with applications to high-capacity optical networking, novel optical amplifiers and photonic devices, all-optical signal processing, quantum information processing, ultra-sensitive measurements, etc. Prof. Vasilyev is a recipient of 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award and a member of the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars.