Jen Yates

Jen Yates is an Assistant Vice President at AT&T Labs, heading the Networking and Service Quality Management Research organization. Her organization is focused on inventing, prototyping and driving new technologies that enable new services, enhance reliability and address complex cross-layer issues across AT&T’s network.

After receiving her PhD from The University of Melbourne, and a BE(hons) and BSc from the University of Western Australia, Jen moved from her homeland of Australia to the United States in 1999 to pursue her career in STEM. Jen has been honored with the AT&T Fellow Award in 2012, the Science and Technology Medal in 2006, the Victorian Photonics Network Achievement Award in 2004 and was named a Top Young Innovator by Technology Review in 2003. Jen holds over 20 patents for her groundbreaking research in networking.