Speaker Biographies
Tianhua Xu Dr. Tianhua Xu is an Associate Professor - Reader in School of Engineering at University of Warwick, UK. He received his PhD degree in School of Information
Syed Zaidi Syed Zaidi is
Associate Professor of Communications and Sensing at the University of Leeds. He is also the Communication Theme team lead at the School
and Communication Technology, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His current research interests include optical communication systems and networks, intelligent signal processing, machine learning techniques, optical sensing systems and opto-electronics. He is a Senior Member of American Physical Society (APS) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy. Dr. Xu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Journal of the European Optical Society-RP. He has been the Chair of Optics in Digital Systems Technical Group in Optical Society of America (Optica), and the TPC co-chair/members of over 20 IEEE conferences, e.g. GLOBECOM, ICC etc. He is the project manager for an EU Horizon 2020 Grant and a UK National Grid Project. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers (including over 30 invited) and 2 invited book chapters
of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He joined the University of Leeds as a University Academic Fellow under the 250 Great Mind Initiative. His research interests are in the areas of Communication and Networking, Random Graph theory, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for large-scale complex networks. He is co-lead for EPSRC Future Communications Hub CHEDDAR. He has published more than 150 papers in leading IEEE conferences and journals
Ligia Zorello Ligia Zorello obtained her BSc .and MSc in Computer Engineering in Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and a MSc in Telecommunications Engineering in Télécom
ParisTech, France. After that, she obtained a Ph.D. in information technology at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her PhD research involved developing algorithms for 5G radio access networks baseband function placement, mainly considering traffic prediction and the impact of wrong predictions in the overall network performance. In 2022., she joined Meta as an optical network engineer, where she is responsible for designing and scaling the optical backbone network of Meta.
Peter Winzer Peter J. Winzer received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and from 2000 through 2019 worked at Bell Labs in
NJ, where he performed research on fiber- optic communication systems and networks, set multiple high-speed optical transmission records, and substantially contributed to optical communications products used in all commercial optical fiber networks today. Following his work on classical and quantum capacities of optical fiber channels, he pioneered space-division multiplexing to scale optical transport systems. In 2020 he founded the VC-funded start-up Nubis Communications, where he currently acts as CTO. Dr. Winzer has widely published and patented and is actively involved with the IEEE and with Optica. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology (2013 to 2018), was Program Chair of ECOC 2009, and Program/General Chair of OFC 2015/2017. A Highly Cited Researcher, Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of the IEEE, Optica, and the US National Academy of Inventors, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, he received multiple recognitions for his work, including the John Tyndall Award and an Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Eindhoven
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