Speaker Biographies
Melchior Aelmans With over two decades of experience in various operational, engineering, and architectural roles within the Cloud and Service Provider industry, Melchior a seasoned
David Benton Dr David Benton is a Senior Research Fellow in the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies. His research career has been shared between industry and academia having previously
Pedro Freire Pedro J. Freire holds Bachelor's and master's
degrees in electronic engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco, complemented by a one-and-a-half-year stint at the State University of New York and the State University of San Francisco. He attained his PhD degree in Optical Communication and Photonics through a Marie-Curie doctoral fellowship at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies in the United Kingdom. Throughout his doctoral studies, Pedro was honored with the prestigious 2022 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions to the application of machine learning in optical communications, specifically in nonlinear channel equalization. Currently, Pedro serves as a senior machine learning associate at Ofcom and holds a co-leadership role in the Machine Learning Group at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies.
architect currently contributing to the Global Service Provider Architecture team at Juniper Networks. In his role, he collaborates closely with many customers to craft innovative network designs and facilitate the evolution of their infrastructures. Melchior his journey has led him to develop a keen interest in the intersection of quantum technology and network security, and since 2018, he has been actively exploring applications of quantum technology in this domain and driving the Quantum Security and Networking strategy in Juniper. Beyond his focus on quantum technology, he is deeply passionate about routing protocols standards development, routing security, and network architectures.
been a Senior Scientist at QinetiQ, working on various technologies including free space quantum key distribution, and as Chief Scientist for L-3 TRL. Current interests are free space optical communications, laser detection systems and novel applications of micromirror arrays.
Ultan Daly Ultan Daly is a Ph.D student in the Structured Photonics Research Group at the University of Glasgow. He graduated with a MPhys from the University of Bath in 2019.
His research project focuses on developing free-space optical communication technologies for turbulent environments. This project is supported by BT through the CDT in Applied Photonics.
Steven Alleston Steven Alleston is a Senior Director for Business Development at OpenLight Photonics who have developed an open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers and
Lidia Galdino Lidia Galdino is a System Engineering Manager at Corning, responsible for defining and driving optical fiber and cable product strategy. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of
Jörg-Peter Elbers Jörg-Peter Elbers is VP Advanced Technology, Standards & IPR at Adtran and globally responsible for technology strategy, applied research, standardization, and intellectual property.
other active components to address the needs of multiple applications including Datacom, High Performance Compute and LIDAR. Steven has held a number of engineering, product management and strategy roles within the optics industry including designing and developing DWDM systems for core and metro applications as well as managing client optics and developing strategies for IP and optical integration. Prior to joining OpenLight, Steven worked as a Senior Product Manager and Director of Engineering for Juniper Networks and has held similar roles at Ericsson and Marconi. Steven holds a PhD from the University of Essex in the UK and is based in the San Francisco bay area.
Lightwave Technology, and serves on several technical program committees, including OFC and ECOC. She has authored > 100 peer-reviewed papers on optical fiber communication systems.
He directs Adtran’s research and innovation activities in areas such as software-defined networking, network function virtualization, network security, packet-optical networking, data center connectivity, optical access, high-speed optical transmission, and photonic integration. Previously, Jörg held technical expert and management positions at ADVA, Ericsson, Marconi and Siemens. He holds a Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Electrical Engineering from TU Dortmund, Germany, and has more than 25 years of experience in packet-optical networking and communication technologies. Jörg serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonic Society, the Board of the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE), the Steering Board of the European Technology Platform Networld Europe, the Steering and Long Range Planning Committees of the OFC conference as well as the Management Committee of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). He has authored and co-authored more than 150 publications, 5 book chapters and 20 patents.
Professor Nathan Gomes Professor Nathan Gomes obtained his BSc(Eng) from the University of Sussex and his PhD from University College
London. He undertook a Science Exchange Fellowship at Telecom Paris, before a 30-year plus academic career at the University of Kent. He is now a Professor at University College London, and an Honorary Professor of Optical Fibre Communications at the University of Kent. Professor Gomes’s research has been primarily in the areas of radio over fibre and mobile fronthaul, areas in which he has led a number of national and international projects, and published over 300 refereed journal and conference papers. He was the Technical Program Chair of IEEE International Conference on Communications in London (ICC2015), and has been on the technical program and organizing committees of a number of other conferences and workshops. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Fellow of the IET.
Patrick Anderson Patrick Anderson received his PhD from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in 2014. From 2014 to 2017 he was a Postdoctoral
Researcher at the University of Oxford, before moving to Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He is particularly interested in the creation, measurement and application of ultrafast laser pulses and high-resolution optical microscopy.
Harald Bock Harald Bock is responsible for Network Architecture at Infinera. Previously, he worked for Coriant, Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Marconi and Siemens after earning his
Martyn Fice Martyn Fice is Associate Professor at University College London and Deputy Director of the UKRI-EPSRC National Dark Fibre Facility. He received the PhD from the
Vladimir Gordienko Dr Vladimir Gordienko is a Research Fellow at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies. Vladimir is leading research on nonlinear fibre optic devices for
PHD in Physics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. During more than 20 years in the optical networking industry, Harald has held various positions in the CTO office, product management, systems design, R&D as well as sales. Harald is an IEEE member and serves on the board of stakeholders of European Technology Platforms on Photonics (Photonics21).
University of Cambridge and has over 30 years of experience in photonics and communications research in both industry and academia, with over 140 journal and conference papers published. His current research interests include THz communications, photonic integrated circuits, fibre and free-space optical communications, and convergence of optical and wireless communications.
optical communications such as fibre optic parametric amplifiers, wavelength converters and optical phase conjugators. He has authored and co-authored around 40 papers and provided breakthroughs and novel concepts in areas of ultra-wide, Raman-assisted, polarisation insensitive, and phase-sensitive operation of fibre optical parametric amplifiers.
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