Richard Barry

Dr. Richard A. Barry is a Visiting Scientist in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Richard A. Barry received his BS (’89), MS (’89), and PhD (’93) degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After MIT, he joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at The George Washington University. In the fall of 1994, he returned to MIT as a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Optical Communications Group and later in the Advanced Networks Group. At Lincoln Laboratory he worked as a network architect on high speed WDM and TDM all-optical and electro-optic networks ground and space based networks. In 1998, Dr. Barry co-founded Sycamore Networks (SCMR) where he was Chief Technology Officer until 2002 focusing on product architecture and development, new technologies, and intellectual property. Since Sycamore, Dr. Barry has advi