Meet the TOP Technical Programme Committee Wladek Forysiak is a Reader and Deputy Director of AIPT at Aston University. He holds a PhD in laser physics and has a research Fotini Karinou is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft working on developing novel optical technologies for next generation cloud
Dimitra Simeonidouis a Marie Curie fellowship based Early-Stage Researcher, pursuing a 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 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 her research work involves investigating wide range of use cases and applications that can be benefitted from these highly precise clocks.
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.
computing systems and networks. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Senior R&D Engineer at Huawei Technologies Ltd in the Optical & Quantum Lab, in the German Research Centre in Munich, where she worked on optical transmission systems and networks, spanning from high-capacity optical interconnects for datacom, to metro/access, and long-haul coherent systems.
Andrew Lord joined BT in 1985 after a BA in Physics from Oxford University. He has helped design a
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
wide range of optical network systems and
technologies, including long haul subsea and terrestrial DWDM networks. He has been responsible for optical fibre and systems specifications. He currently leads BT’s optical core and access research including optical access, high speed transmission, Software Defined Networking and Quantum Communications.
physical phenomena to industry inspired 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.. 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 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.
Dr Mingming Tan received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from Aston University, UK in 2016. He works as a Research Fellow at Aston
Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT), Aston University. He has published 87 journal and conference papers in the field of optical fibre communications. He is a Member of Optica. He has been a co-chair of sessions at ICTON, PIERS, and IEEE SUM since 2018, and serves as a guest editor of the journals MDPI Photonics and Applied Sciences.
James Regan has more than 30 years’ experience in the optical communications component industry. He has held several different
roles in research, engineering, project and product management, marketing, sales, and general management. Before joining EFFECT Photonics in 2011, James helped build successful business within large companies such as Nortel Components and JDSU, as well as multiple start-ups, including Agility Communications.
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 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,
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.
and a Chair of the OPTICA Optical Communication Technical Group.
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