David V. Plant (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, in 1989. He was a Research Engineer at the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 1989 to 1993, and has been a Professor at McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, since 1993, where he holds a James McGill Professorship. He has published more than 400 journals and conference papers and has one licensed patent. He is a Fellow of OSA, Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He currently holds a Killam Research Fellowship. He has received five teaching awards and numerous other awards, including the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lectureship and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Microwave Prize.