Malin Premaratne is Vice President of the Academic Board of Monash University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Australia. His Industrial experience includes consultancy roles for Cisco, Lucent Technologies, Ericsson, Siemens, VPISystems, Telcordia Technologies, Ciena, and Tellium. He is also a visiting researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, the University of Oxford, and the University of Melbourne. He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Photonics Journal, and OSA Advances in Optics and Photonics Journal.