Rob Stone is a network engineer in the networking strategy and architecture team at Meta. with a focus on network infrastructure and interconnect technologies to support AI. Rob has over 25 years of industry experience bringing networking and optics technologies to market and has held both technical and managerial positions at Broadcom, Intel, Infinera, Emcore, Skorpios Technologies, and Bandwidth 9. He has a track record of involvement in numerous industry groups and forums including IEEE, The Ethernet Alliance, OIF, and various MSAs. Rob holds a D.Phil. in Physics from The University of Oxford.