Speaker Biographies
Robert Killey Prof Robert Killey received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Communications Engineering from the University of Bristol in 1992, the M.Sc. degree in
Domaniç Lavery Domaniç Lavery received the MPhys degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Durham in 2009. Subsequently, he joined the Optical Networks Group (ONG)
David Neilson Dr. David T. Neilson is the Group Leader for Optical Transmission Research and a Principal Researcher in Network Architecture
at Nokia Bell Labs, NJ USA. He leads research into the next generation of terrestrial and undersea optical systems, including ultra-high baud rates, modulation formats and coding and the use of space division multiplexing and wide band transmission for scaling system capacities. He joined Bell-Labs in 1998, where he has also lead research on optical switching systems and on opto-electronic integration. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., in 1990 and 1993, respectively. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher working on free-space optical interconnect and switching systems with Heriot-Watt. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Visiting Scientist with NEC Research, Princeton, NJ, researching optical interconnects for high-performance computing systems. He is Bell Labs Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
Microwaves and Optoelectronics from UCL in 1994 and the D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford in 1998. His doctoral work was on the design and applications of Fabry-Perot micro- resonator optical modulators. Since 1997, he has been a member of the Optical Networks Group at UCL. His current research focuses on ultra- wideband WDM transmission systems, including fast and accurate computer modelling methods to predict the impact of fibre nonlinearity; the use of modelling to optimise system design; experimental assessments of UWB transmission; and the development of digital signal processing techniques for impairment mitigation. He is currently working on a number of projects with collaborations across industry and academia, including the EPSRC TRANSNET program and the EPSRC Extremely Wideband Optical Communications (EWOC) project. Prof Killey is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE
at UCL, undertaking a Ph.D investigating digital coherent receivers for passive optical networks; awarded in 2013. He commenced a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in 2016 on the topic of "Simplified Transceiver Architectures for High Capacity Optical Networks". He was also a co-investigator in the EPSRC TRANSNET project; a multidisciplinary research programme investigating intelligent resource allocation in dynamic optical networks. He has worked in Infinera's Ottawa Digital Signal Processing team since 2020. Between 2020-2024, Dr. Lavery was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL. He has served on Technical Programme Committees for several international conferences, including OFC and ECOC, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE
Yiming Li Dr Yiming Li has been working as a Marie S.- Curie Research Fellow (PI, grant No. 713694) at Aston
Jo Shien Ng Prof Jo Shien Ng is Professor of Semiconductor Devices from School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at University of Sheffield. She received her BEng and PhD degrees
Laurenz Kulmer Laurenz Kulmer received the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology in 2021, from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently working towards the Ph.D.
Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT), leading the development of the new FSO communication lab. The project was focusing on the successive interference cancellation decoder for MIMO FSO systems. He also works as a research associate in an EPSRC-funded project (EP/T009047/1-PON- HD), which is focusing on wireless passive optical networks and corresponding optical amplifiers. The research outcomes have been published in Optics Letters (top-downloaded paper), European Conference on Optical Communication (Top-scored paper), and Journal of Lightwave Technology. Earlier as a joint PhD student, Dr Yiming Li received the PhD research project funding from the Chinese Ministry of Education and the University of Warwick. He was also awarded the Chinese National Prize from the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Tang, Lixin Prize for his excellent PhD performance.
in Electronic Engineering from University of Sheffield, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2006, she was responsible for characterisation at the National Centre for III-V Technologies (now part of the EPSRC National Epitaxy Facility) hosted by University of Sheffield, UK. She was a Royal Society Research Fellow in the same university between 2006 and 2016. Her research area is semiconductor photodiodes, focusing on avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). She has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is also the co-founder of Phlux Technology Ltd, UK.
degree with the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (Prof. Juerg Leuthold), at ETH Zurich. His research interests include subTHz communication systems, optical communication, and subTHz sensing systems. He is also the President of the Optical Student Chapter at ETH Zurich.
Sophie Lange Sophie Lange is a business development engineer at EXFO since 2021, specializing in PIC testing solutions. Previously, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research in
Dominic O'Brien
Ruben Luis Ruben S. Luis is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Information
Cambridge (2018-2021), focusing on ultra-fast tunable lasers for optically switched data center architectures. Sophie earned a PhD from TU Berlin, developing high-speed InP transmitter PICs at Fraunhofer HHI. She also holds an Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree, graduated in 2012 from Aston University in Birmingham and Scuola Superiore Sant’-Anna Pisa, with her master’s thesis completed at Osaka University. Her blend of industry and research experience make her a valuable asset in the photonics field
and Communication Technology (NICT) in Japan, specializing in cutting-edge optical
fiber transmission systems and spatial division multiplexing. Since joining NICT in 2016, he has focused in advancing ultra-high-capacity transmission technologies, particularly in multi-core and multi-mode fiber systems. Dr. Luis earned his doctoral degree in 2007 from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and his professional journey spans both academia and industry. An active contributor to the scientific community, Dr. Luis serves as an associate editor for Photonics Technology Letters and the Journal of Lightwave Technology, and frequently reviews for Optica.
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