Matthew Lok

Research Partnership Program Manager, Nortel Networks

Matthew Lok is Nortel Networks’ Research Partnership Program Manager. He has an extensive experience in leading a team to conceptualize and develop telecommunications network services and in managing deployment planning of a telecommunications network. He has worked with telephone and utility companies in Alberta, trucking companies and hospitals in Ontario, and universities in the United States to build network solutions to meet their needs. His work experiences include mobile communications maintenance and standards engineering, light route cable system design, data market planning and development, heavy route fundamental planning, mobile satellite communications business development. With Nortel Networks, he led the team in developing and deploying a Remote Cardiac Consultation system for the Ottawa Heart Institute and the Pembroke General Hospital, which enabled real-time transmission of echocardiograms, angiograms and X-Rays, and other bandwidth-intensive medical images and data. This network application was used for the initial launch of Nortel’s OC192 Synchronous Optical Networks Transport Node for Bell Canada’s 10 Gigabit/sec Optical Network in Canada. Currently, he is at the University of Waterloo, managing the Nortel Networks Institute for Advanced Information Technologies which is based at the university. In this capacity, he has established four laboratories for research and education in the areas of Information and Communications technologies. In collaboration with faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the School of Computer Science, and the Department of Physics, he manages a portfolio of research projects funded by Nortel, NSERC, ORDCF, and CITO. As part of his role of Nortel’s on-site manager, he serves as an Associate Director for the Software Telecom Group in the School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo.