Poster Presenter Biographies
Nura Adamu Mr. Nura Adamu, currently pursuing a PhD in optoelectronics at the Optical Research Center (ORC), University of Southampton, UK. His research interest is ultra-wideband optical transmission systems, which focus on extending the solid-core silica fiber transmission window usage for higher system capacity. He received his BSc in
Safiya Dabwan Safiya is a doctoral researcher at Aston Institute for Photonics Technologies AiPT, where she focuses on developing Machine-Learning based solutions for boosting the fibre channel capacity. Prior to entering the doctorate programme, she earned the EU- funded Erasmus Mundus Scholarship SMARTNET for a double master’s degree in Smart Telecom at
Electronics and Communications Engineering from Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt in 2016, and MSc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the university of Portsmouth, UK in 2020.
Aston University, United Kingdom and University of Athens, Greece. Safiya's undergraduate education was pursued in Bahrain, where she has obtained a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering. Safiya has an industrial experience as an Industry 4.0 Engineer from Bahrain Fibreglass (BFG) International.
Akanksha Ahuja Akanksha Ahuja, an EPSRC-ICASE PhD student and Anita Borg Scholar(Google Women in Computer Science) at the University of Cambridge excels in machine learning, focusing on geometric and graph modelling techniques applicable across various scientific fields. Collaborating with the Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and
Aleksandr Donodin Aleksandr Donodin is conducting his Ph.D. at Aston University in the framework of the ETN WON project. His doctoral research focuses on the design, optimisation, and implementation of Bismuth-doped fibre amplifiers for wideband optical networks. Aleksandr’s background includes experimental research and numerical modelling
British Telecommunications, her research aims to automate optical network design and enhance data transmission across the UK's national fibre infrastructure, making it more resilient, efficient and cost-effective.
in the fields of Fibre Optics, Femtosecond Fibre Lasers, Optical Frequency Combs, Supercontinuum Generation, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Amplification Media, and Optical Amplifiers. He received his Bachelor degree in Optical Engineering and his Master Degree in Laser Engineering and Laser Technologies at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 2017 and 2019, respectively.
Mariia Bastamova Mariia is a PhD student at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, specializing in optical parametric amplification for Optical Communications. She received her BA and MSc in Laser and Nonlinear Optics. Her research project focuses on the optimisation of novel fibre optical parametric amplifiers for high gain, wide-band, and
Geraldo Gomes Geraldo earned his bachelor's in Electronic Engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and has worked as an electronics engineer since then. His career includes developing electronic products for automotive,
low noise optical communications. Mariia has been awarded the Corning Women in Optical Communications Scholarship in 2024 for her work in optical communications and networking.
biomedical, and power sectors. Nowadays he is a PhD student at Aston University, researching applications of machine learning techniques and digital signal processing to improve energy efficiency, throughput, and robustness of digital coherent receivers.
Nelson Castro Nelson Castro is a PhD candidate at Aston University in the UK. His research focuses on developing machine learning-aided schemes to improve the performance of fibre optic communication systems by addressing nonlinear impairments. He earned his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the National Autonomous
Xin Huang Xin Huang is a PhD candidate at in
optoelectronics at the Optical Research Center (ORC), University of Southampton, UK. She received her BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from Shandong Normal University and Berihang University, respectively. Her research interest is wideband optical fibre amplifier and associated
University of Honduras in 2016 and, in 2018, was granted an EMJMD scholarship to pursue the SMARTNET master’s degree program jointly offered by Télécom SudParis and Aston University. His fields of interest include machine learning, optical networks, and digital signal processing.
technology, encompassing both experimental research and simulations in the field of Erbium-doped fibre amplifier, Ytterbium-doped fibre amplifier and long period fibre gratings.
Márton Czermann Márton Czermann is a PhD student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), at the Department of Networked Systems and Services. Conducting research in the topic of Quantum Communications, his focus is on the investigation of the timing and synchronization requirements of various types of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
Yanwu Liu Yanwu Liu graduated in BEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London in 2019. She continues to pursue an MSc degree in Wireless and Optical communications at UCL, followed by a MRes degree provided by UCL-Cambridge Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Connected Electronic and Photonic
protocols and architectures. In cooperation with Ericsson Hungary, he demonstrated the BB84 protocol over the physical layer of a fiber-based plug-and-play QKD system. He has been also working on a feasibility study of integrating QKD systems into classical networks, considering the requirements of end-to-end quantum security. As a member of the Mobile Communications and Quantum Technologies Laboratory at BME, he has gained experience with the operation of an entanglement-based free-space QKD system, together with time tagging, data processing and synchronization techniques.
Systems. She then joined the Optical Networks Group at UCL as an MPhil/PhD student in December 2021. Her research interests include optical switching and networking for quantum and classical data centers.
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