Zhiwei Lin

Zhi-wei Lin (zhiwlin@NYCT.com) is a manager with MTA New York City Transit, Department of Capital Programs Management, Communications Engineering. He has multidisciplinary expertise on network survivability strategies, network planning, architecture, and design. His networking knowledge encompasses a wide range of areas including ATM, SONET/SDH, OTN, GMPLS/ASON control plane specifications, and MPLS/Ethernet and the corresponding OAM mechanisms. From 1995 to 2002he worked at Telcordia as a senior consultant, where he was responsible for multitechnology network design and deployment, evolution planning, business plan development, and associated analysis and modeling. He joined Lucent Technologies in July 2000, providing support for standardization and systems engineering for Lucent's optical networking product line. Since joining NYCT in 2003, he has been involved with developing the requirements and network architecture for NYCT's communications infrastructure. He is also involved with various projects to modernize operation of the transit system, including overseeing deployment of the Automatic Train Supervision System. Over the past nine years he has provided over 50 technical contributions to various standards and industry fora, many of which have been used as input toward approved international Recommendations. He holds an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.