Jane M Simmons Author

Dr. Jane M. Simmons received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at MIT. She co-founded Monarch Network Architects in 2003. She continues to work with an array of customers, both in industry and the government, developing algorithms and performing network designs and economic studies.

The author has been teaching an OFC short-course related to the book topic for ten years; she has also published numerous papers on the subject of optical network design, including several invited papers.