Andrew M. Netherton received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, in 2016, and the M.S. degree in 2018 in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include silicon photonics and energy efficient datacenter communication links.