Valey Kamalov | Chair, Working Group - Subsea Environmental Sensing with Operational Submarine Cables, SubOptic Association / Founder
Valey Kamalov LLC

Valey Kamalov is an expert in subsea optical networking, most recently serving as a Chair of the Suboptic 2023 Paper Committee. Valey’s fundamental contributions into the industry include building 1st coherent cable (SJC), 1st open cable (Faster), 1st SDM cable (Dunant), 1st fiber switching (Equiano), which defined the growth of capacity to connect continents. Valey discovered the ability of operational submarine cables to detect earthquakes and water waves in early 2020, and dedicated the most of his time to earthquake and tsunami early warning research since then. Valey’s career in the industry includes 20+ years at Siemens and Google. Valey started his own company dedicated to early tsunami warning with submarine cables and education on optical communications in 2023. Valey’s academic career includes teaching at Moscow State University, visiting professorship and research at Georgia Institute of Technology, Okazaki Institute for Molecular Science in Japan, and Italy. Valey was a driving force to establish SubseaOFC Summer School in Finland in 2019, and in Sweden in 2022. He is serving at the Suboptic Working Group, and on the Board of Optica Foundation. Valey published 100+ scientific papers including papers in Science in 2021 and 2022, and holds multiple US patents. He received BS in physics and PhD in quantum electronics from Moscow University, and ScD from Russian Academy of Science for contributions in time-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy.