Meet the TOP Technical Programme Committee Wladek is a Professor and Deputy Director of AIPT at Aston University. He holds a PhD in laser
Fotini Karinou is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft, where she focuses on developing innovative optical technologies for next- generation cloud computing systems and
Lakshmi Rajagopal is a Marie Curie fellowship based Early-Stage Researcher, pursuing my PhD with BT and University of Birmingham on the “Application of highly precise optical
physics and has a research background in nonlinear photonics and high speed optical fibre
communication systems. He was a co-founder of Marconi Solstis in 2000, and spent 15 years in WDM system related product development with Marconi, Ericsson, and Oclaro. A Royal Society Industry Fellow from 2012-16, he was awarded a 5-year EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship at Aston University in 2015, and is presently the EFFECT Photonics / Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Highly Integrated Coherent optical fibre Communications. His current research interests are in wideband optical fibre communication systems, optical devices and subsystems, and the impact and mitigation of device and fibre nonlinearities.
networks. Prior to her role at Microsoft, she served as a Senior R&D Engineer at Huawei Technologies Ltd in the Optical & Quantum Laboratory at the German Research Centre in Munich. There, her work centered on optical transmission systems and networks, encompassing high-capacity optical interconnects for datacom, metro/access networks, long-haul coherent systems, and quantum communications. She earned the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007 and the PhD in optical communications with a focus on spectrally efficient WDM optical interconnect networks with advanced modulation formats in 2012, from the University of Patras, Greece.
clocks in a telecom network”. Telecom networks need high level of accuracy and synchronization to work effectively. Currently, this is achieved with the help of satellite-based technologies. The next generation of telecom network require precision and stability than ever before, and this is easily achieved in the lab with an optical atomic clock. The challenge is on how to bring this technology out of the lab and utilize it in our telecom infrastructure.
Anastasiia Vasylchenkova is a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow in Optical Networks Group at University College London, running a research project on the analytical modelling of
Andrew joined BT in 1985 after a BA in Physics from Oxford University. He has helped design a wide range of optical network systems and technologies, including long haul subsea and terrestrial DWDM
Martin P.J. Lavery is a Full Professor and leader of the Structured Photonics Research Group at the University of Glasgow. He works on applying novel physical phenomena to industry inspired
ultrawideband optical communication. She received my BSc and MSc in nuclear physics from the Kharkiv National University, Ukraine in 2014 and 2016, respectively. and received a PhD degree from Aston University, Birmingham, UK, for developing the nonlinear Fourier transform approach for optical communications. Anastasiia is currently a Publicity Officer of the IEEE Photonics UK and Ireland Photonics Chapter,
networks. He has been responsible for optical fibre and systems specifications. He currently leads BT’s optical research including optical access, high speed transmission and quantum communications. He has recently initiated BT’s quantum research, with applications in areas such as secure communications, timing and sensing. He regularly speaks at conferences, sits on several organising committees, including ECOC and was Technical Program Chair for OFC 2015 and General Chair for OFC 2017. He was TPC co-chair of ECOC 2023. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, He is Visiting Professor at Essex University, Fellow of the IEEE and a BT Distinguished Engineer. more than 30 years’ experience leading businesses in the optical communications industry and creating companies out of university research. As CEO and co-founder of recent spin-out Oriole Networks he leads one of the UK’s few system-level optical networking companies. He previously created and led spin-outs EFFECT Photonics and Venture Photonics and built successful businesses within Agility communications and Nortel Networks. He has led businesses in highspeed transmission, photonic integration, optical amplification, photonic switching and optical components and modules. James Regan, CEO Oriole Networks James is a physicist with
engineering challenges, leading research programs in developing high capacity free-space communication systems that incorporate space division multiplexing, investigating propagation dynamics of structured light in turbulent environments, solar collection optics, and acoustic wavefront shapers. He is currently the coordinator for the EU project SuperPixels, utilizing integrated photonics for sensing and communications applications, and PI on the EPSRC project Pon-HD, developing technologies for cable free passive optical networking, and has been given various awards including Scopus Young Scientist of the Year for Physical Sciences and the Royal Academy of Edinburgh Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane Medal.. electronics and communication engineering from BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in2011, and the M.Eng. degree in telecommunications from American International University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2013. She also received her Ph.D. in 2019 from School of Engineering, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., before working there as a research associate. She is currently a research associate for the All-Raman optical amplification for next Generation ultra-wideband Optical Networks (ARGON) project at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham, U.K. Her research interests include Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems and amplification technologies, signal processing for communications and multiplexing techniques for 5G (and beyond) mobile fronthaul. Shabnam Noor received the B.Sc. degree in
and a Chair of the OPTICA Optical Communication Technical Group.
Dr Mary Elizabeth McCarthy (she/her) works as Design Authority for Digital Coherent Optical modules in Lumentum
(previously Oclaro). Previous experience includes post-doctoral research at Aston University (UK) on optical signal processing to counteract nonlinear transmission impairments in large bandwidth, complex modulation format systems. She has worked for Ericsson in UK and Australia on design, implementation and customer compliance of long haul and metro transport platforms. She completed her PhD in digital chromatic dispersion compensation in Tyndall institute (IRL) in 2009.
Mingming (Tommy) Tan is a Research Fellow at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT), Aston University. In his research, he focuses on optical communications, Raman
amplification, and Raman fibre laser. He has published 111 papers in leading journals and international conferences. He is currently managing three research projects funded by the Royal Society (as PI) and EPSRC (as Researcher- Co-I) by collaborating with leading researchers in the UK, US, Japan, and China.
Cathy White is a researcher at British Telecom who is working on integrating and downstreaming quantum information technology for industrial applications. She has studied electronics, physics and quantum
physics, and she worked in a variety of different technical roles in software and instrumentation before joining BT in 2011.
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