Julie Sheridan Eng is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coherent. Prior to becoming CTO, Dr. Eng served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Optoelectronic Devices and Modules Business Unit.

Before Coherent, Dr. Eng held various senior management positions at Finisar Corporation, including Executive Vice President and General Manager of 3D Sensing, and Executive Vice President of Datacom Engineering. Over the 15 years she managed datacom transceiver engineering, her teams production-released hundreds of fiber optic transceiver products and achieved numerous industry firsts. Dr. Eng began her career at AT&T Bell Laboratories/Lucent/Agere. She is a Fellow of Optica, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the Global Semiconductor Alliance’s Dr. Lisa Su Woman of Innovation Award.

Dr. Eng holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Physics from Bryn Mawr College and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.