Meet the TOP Technical Programme Committee
Wladek is a Professor and Deputy Director of AIPT at Aston University. He holds a PhD in laser 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
James Regan, CEO Oriole Networks James is a physicist with 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
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.
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.
Fotini Karinou is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft, where she focuses on developing innovative optical technologies for next-generation cloud computing systems and networks. Prior to her role at Microsoft, she served as a Senior R&D Engineer at Huawei Technologies Ltd in the Optical & Quantum Laboratory
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 networks. He has been responsible for optical fibre and systems specifications. He currently leads BT’s optical research
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.
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.
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
Lidia Galdino is a System Engineering & Innovation Manager at Corning, responsible for defining and driving long-haul terrestrial and submarine optical fiber and cable product strategy. Prior Corning, Lidia was an
Donald Govan is Photonics Coherent Architect at Mbryonics working on coherent transceivers for free space optical links. He received a B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in laser physics and optoelectronics from the
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.
assistant professor at University College London, leading the research in high-capacity optical fiber transmission system. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Lightwave Technology and has authored > 100 peer-reviewed papers on optical fiber communication systems.
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., in 1995, and a Ph.D. from the Photonics Research Group at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., in 1999. Following his PhD he has worked across industry and academia including spells with Marconi, University of Nottingham, University of Swansea, Oclaro and Lumentum.
Swe Zin Oo is a design engineer and technical lead in the chip R&D department at Lumentum, where she focuses on developing advanced III-V based modulators for high-speed data
Dr. Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah is an Assistant Professor in the department of
Maksym (Max) is CEO and co-founder of Aegiq, a photonic quantum computing and
Electronic and Electrical Engineering, TCD, and a co-director of the Photonics Systems and Sensing Laboratory in DCU. She has over 20 years of R&D experience gained in academic and industrial environments. Dr. Kaszubowska focuses on developing solutions for future optical and integrated optical-wireless communications networks. Her diverse expertise spans multiple domains (wireless, optical, hardware), network layers (physical, control, and network) and telecommunication systems (5G, 6G and converged access networks). Her research has led to the publication of over 100 articles in high impact peer-reviewed publications. These include articles in Nature Communications, Science Advances, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials as well as several invited conferences presentations. She is also a senior member of IEEE.
communications start-up, which recently received Institute of Physics Business Start-up Award and listed as a WIRED Trailblazer. Having started as a quantum physicist he is a serial entrepreneur in deep tech with experience across different sectors including aerospace, hi-end manufacturing and with main focus on product development based on quantum photonic technology. Max holds a PhD in Physics from University of Sheffield and a BSc in Economics and Finance from LSE. In his academic career he published in Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, other high-profile journals as well as delivered a number of invited talks and received several awards for his research in quantum and non-linear optics of semiconductors. Max is also a co-author of a number of patents and patents pending.
transmission. With expertise in high-capacity optical technologies, Swe plays a crucial role in driving innovation in the field. Before joining Lumentum, she served as a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, specializing in silicon photonics and pioneering low-loss optical interconnects and multilayer integration platforms.
Dr Qiushuo Sun is a Research Manager in Quantum Optics in BT
Research. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2019 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She then worked as a
research fellow at the National quantum hub for sensors and timing in the University of Birmingham for 3 years before she joined BT. She is specialised in optics, quantum and telecommunication technologies.
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