Alexei Pilipetskii received his Ph.D. in 1990 in nonlinear fiber optics. From 1994 to 1997, he was with UMBC, working on fiber optic data transmission. In 1997, he joined SubCom, focusing on new transmission technologies for undersea fiber optic cables. He currently leads the Forward Looking Group at SubCom. He became an IEEE Photonics Society Fellow in 2018.