Speaker Biographies
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Company co-founder and CEO, Carmen carried out her physics training and research at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College) and Imperial College London. Author of multiple high-impact academic papers and inventor of the technology which resulted in the foundation of Nu Quantum, for which she was awarded the 2018 Institute of Physics National
David Richardson is currently Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at Southampton University with responsibility for optical fibre and laser related research. His current research interests include hollow-core optical fibres, high power fibre lasers and optical fibre communications. He is currently Principal Investigator on the £6M EPSRC funded Airguide Andrew Robertson. has a PhD in Laser Physics & Nonlinear Optics and a BSc in Laser Physics & Optoelectronics, both from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Andrew has over 25 years of experience in successful commercial technology development & exploitation within photonics. In 2002, he was one of the founders of SIFAM Fibre Optics which was acquired by Gooch & Housego
Medal. Carmen is a founding member of UKQuantum, the voice of the UK’s quantum industry. Featured in Forbes magazine as a ‘Rising Star 2021’, WIRED, BBC, and others. Founder and leader of multiple LGBTQ+ and equity initiatives inside and outside academia throughout her career.
Photonics Programme Grant.
Nick Parsons is Vice President Technology at HUBER+SUHNER, responsible for advancing development of fibre optics and communications technologies. Previously, he served as CTO and VP Engineering at Polatis, where he brought their leading-edge all-optical switch technology to market. Prior to Polatis he held senior technical roles in avionics divisions of BAE Systems and
(G&H) in 2007 after 5 years of growth. Andrew held key senior engineering management roles within G&H and was a member of the Senior Management Team, becoming Senior Vice President and latterly focussing on Strategic Mergers and Acquisitions. Since 2020, Andrew has been with Bay Photonics and as CTO, has led the development of photonics based semiconductor packaging critical for enabling photonic driven Quantum Technology. Bay Photonics are currently supplying packaged SPADs and packaged quantum photonic integrated circuits (Q-PICs) for quantum computing, secure quantum communications, and quantum LIDAR imaging systems.
GEC-Marconi, including pioneering developments in wideband integrated optical modulators and microwave photonics. A graduate of Southampton University, he has authored or co-authored over 50 papers and 20 patents in the field of photonics systems and devices. Nick is a member of IET and Optica and has served as chair and TPC member for several conferences, including APC NETWORKS and ECOC.
Joseph Pearse is a PhD student at the University of York in the UK, but based in Adastral Park in Ipswich to work closely with BT research. He received his MSci degree in Physics from the University of Birmingham. He was part of the team that deployed the UKQNtel QKD network between Adastral Park and the University of Cambridge. Currently his area of study is in the Dr. Richard Pitwon is the founder and CEO of Resolute Photonics and a director, engineer and scientist in the photonics industry with particular focus on optical, photonic and quantum system interconnect, integration and architectures for hyperscale data centre, HPC, 5G and IoT data- communications applications. He holds 55 patents in diverse fields, has authored over 65 peer-
Egor Sedov is a PhD student at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, researching new techniques for optical telecommunications signals analysis and manipulation using Machine Learning and Nonlinear Fourier Transform. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole des Ponts
simulation of QKD networks.
ParisTech and a Master's degree from Novosibirsk State University. Egor is focused on improving signal restoration in long-haul optical telecom lines and exploring the use of machine learning techniques for data modulation.
Yingjie Shao is currently a researcher at the Centre for Applied Photonics, Fraunhofer UK, and a visiting researcher at the University of Strathclyde. She received a B.Eng. degree from Shandong University, China, in 2017, and a PhD degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2021. Her research interests include digital signal processing for optical Dr Shuangyi Yan is a Senior Lecturer in the High Performance Networks group, Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol. He received a B.E degree from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China in 2004. In 2009, he got a PhD degree in optical engineering from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS, China. From 2011 to 2013, he worked at the Hong Kong Polytechnic
reviewed publications including 5 international standards and has given over 100 public talks. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the IET (FIET) and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP). He is the current chair of both the IEC international standards subcommittee (IEC/ SC86B) and BSI subcommitee (BSI GEL86/2) on optical connectors and passive components and principal UK expert on IEC committees for optical circuit boards (TC86/JWG9), photonic integrated circuits (SC86C/ WG4), embedded electronic assembly (TC91/WG6) and quantum technologies (SEG14). He is also the chair of IEEE UK and Ireland Photonics Chapter and the IEEE UK and Ireland Quantum Group.
communication and free-space optical communications.
Lakshmi Rajagopal. I am a Marie Curie fellowship based Early-Stage Researcher, pursuing my PhD with BT and University of Birmingham on the “Application of highly precise optical 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
University, Hong Kong, as a postdoctoral researcher. In July 2013, he joined the High Performance Networks Group at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on machine-learning-enabled future networks (eg., dynamic optical networks and 5G Beyond networks), multidimensional optical networks, and data centre networks. He is the author or co-author of over 80 refereed publications, which consist of several post-deadline papers and invited talks at top-level conferences. He also served as a Technical Program Committee member and Co-Chair in several conferences, such as EuCNC, ONDM, OECC, and ACP.
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. . Another dimension of my research work involves investigating wide range of use cases and applications that can be benefitted from these highly precise clocks.
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