Thursday 15 June 2023 Open To All Workshop (III)

 ML&AI for MB optical monitoring and networks

This workshop is free, in person and online.

The agenda for the 15 June is below.

  1. Please register HERE. For participation in person the registration is open until Friday 26th May 2023.
  2. A Teams link will be sent to registrants nearer the time.
  3. The workshop is in person at the Adrian Cadbury Lecture Theatre (ground floor, near reception) Conference Aston, Aston St, Birmingham.
  4. Conference Aston is 20-30 minutes walk away from Birmingham New Street Station and it is opposite Aston University’s main building.
  5. A Google map to Conference Aston is here: https://goo.gl/maps/cJpNQQZog4ahe19f6
  6. Or download a Conference Aston pdf map: https://aston.app.box.com/s/dgfgg4hzrshlf022idqmn6o6fpaydjn4
  7. The venue is also a hotel, book a room here: http://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/book-hotel-room/ 

TimeSpeaker/ItemTopic/Title
09:30-09.35 UK/Portugal; 10:30-10:35 CEST In person: Welcome by Chairs Dr Morteza Kamalian-Kopae and Mohammad Hosseini (both of AIPT, Aston University, UK)
09:35-10:10 UK/Portugal; 10:35-11:10 CEST In person: Mohammad Hosseini (Aston University, AIPT, UK)P2MP optimization and network planning
10:10-10:45 UK/Portugal; 11:10-11:45 CESTIn person: Prof David Saad (Aston University, AIPT, UK)Message-passing approaches in network optimisation
20 minBreak
11:05-11:40 UK/Portugal; 12:05-12:40 CESTOnline: Prof Luis Velasco (UPC, Spain),Real-time Autonomous Optical Network Operation
11:40-12:15 UK/Portugal; 12:40-13:15 CETIn person: Assistant Professor. Dr Nicola Sambo (SSSA, Italy)Architecture and control of multi-band optical networks
12:15-13:30 UK/Portugal; 13:15-14:30 CESTLunch, 1 hour and 15 mins
13:30-14:05 UK/Portugal; 14:30-15:05 CESTOnline: Prof Darko Zibar (DTU, Denmark)Independent phase noise source separation for optical frequency combs
14:05-14:40 UK/Portugal; 15:05-15:40 CESTOnline: Dr Nelson Costa (Infinera, Portugal) Optical Channel Equalization Using Neural Networks: From Concept to Reality
20 minBreak
15:00-15:35 UK/Portugal; 16:00-16:35 CESTIn person: Dr Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, (UCL, UK)How to design ultrawideband transmission systems: factors, challenges and insights
15:35-16:15 UK/Portugal: 16:35-17:15 CESTOnline: Dr Antonio Napoli, (Infinera-Germany, Coriant R&D)Environmental Impact of Coherent Point-to-Multipoint Pluggables in Metro Aggregation Optical Networks
16:15 UK/Portugal; 17:15 CESTEND

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Mohammad HOSSEINI (Workshop Co-chair and speaker) As a Marie-Curie Ph.D. researcher at Aston University since 2020, he specializes in optimizing and planning optical networks using cutting-edge technologies. Working alongside a team of fellow academics at Aston University and industry experts at Infinera, he is committed to delivering cost-efficient and reliable designs that meet the realistic demands of the industry. Leveraging his expertise in tools such as Integer Linear Programming, meta-heuristics and Machine Learning methods, he aims to ensure the highest level of efficiency and effectiveness in his research.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-m-hosseini-26a951102/

https://twitter.com/MohamadESR

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rBpSfWcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Dr Morteza KAMALIAN-KOPAE (Workshop Co-chair) received his BSc in electrical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, his MSc in communication engineering from Yazd University, Yazd, Iran, and his PhD in electrical engineering from Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Since graduation, he has been with Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AIPT) as a research fellow working on nonlinear Fourier transform, in particular, for periodic solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. His research interests include signal processing in optical communication, analysis of nonlinear dynamics, and wireless communication systems
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morteza-kamalian-kopae-021a4a11a/

Dr Antonio NAPOLI received his Ph.D. degree from the Politecnico di Torino with a thesis on “Electronic equalization for advanced modulation formats”. Since 2006 he joined the R&D of Siemens COM, where he was initially working on EDFA transient suppression for long and ultra-long-haul optical networks. In 2007, he became a member of the established joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, named Nokia Siemens Networks, where he was working on cutting-edge projects on robust and tolerant design of optical communications systems at 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s. In particular, he was involved in the design and development of future DSP-based coherent receivers for next-generation optical communication systems. In 2013, he joined Coriant, where he has been involved in EU project working on data plane activities, such as for example in the EU FP-7 IDEALIST project. From Oct. 1st 2018, he is with Infinera. His research interests include DSP for optical bandwidth variable transponders from metro to long-haul network receivers, advanced modulation techniques, and wideband optical system design and modelling.
Link: https://sites.google.com/site/antonionapolipub

Dr Nelson COSTA was born in Tomar, Portugal, in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon Technical University, Lisbon, Portugal in 2012. He is currently with Infinera Unipessoal, Lda, Portugal. He has authored or co-authored over 70 publications in international conferences and journals. His current research interests include advanced coherent optical modulation formats, nonlinear fibre transmission impairments, and network optimization.

Link: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=LoHIMXAAAAAJ&hl=en 

 

Prof David SAAD holds the 50th Anniversary Chair of Complexity Physics. He is Professor of Maths at Aston University and holds degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Haifa, Israel and Tel-Aviv University. He joined the Physics Department at Edinburgh University in 1992 and Aston University in 1995. His research, published in about 200 journal and conference papers, focuses on the application of methods from statistical physics and Bayesian statistics to a range of fields, which include neural networks, error-correcting codes, multi-node communication, network optimisation, routing, noisy computation, epidemic spreading and advanced inference methods.

Link: https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/david-saad

 

Dr Nicola SAMBO is an Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. His activity is focused on optical networks, ranging from signal transmission to control plane. He is a WP leader for the control plane in the H2020 ITN MENTOR project and in the Italian PRIN FIRST project. He is an author of more than 200 publications.

Link: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=hka29h4AAAAJ&hl=en

 

Dr Anastasiia VASYLCHENKOVA is currently 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 her BSc and MSc in nuclear physics from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She received a PhD degree from Aston University, Birmingham, UK, for her research within the nonlinear Fourier transform approach for optical communications. Her research interests include fibre optics, nonlinearity mitigation, analytical modelling and transmission system design. Anastasiia is an experienced educator in STEM, educational events manager and designer, Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy. She is holding the role of the President International Physicists’ Tournament, leading the work of the executive team. Beyond this, she has 10 years of volunteering experience for STEM and photonics communities, including engagement through SPIE, IEEE, and OSA. She is a Committee Member and Publicity Officer of the IEEE Photonics UK and Ireland Photonics Chapter, and a Chair-elect of the OSA Optical Communication Technical Group.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiia-vasylchenkova/
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Prof Luis VELASCO is based at the Department of Computer Architecture (DAC) at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain). He is also a senior researcher at the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA).
He has co-authored more than 275 papers in peer-reviewed International Journals and Conferences, as well as two books related to Elastic Optical Networks.
He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) from 2015 to 2021, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of MDPI Sensors, in the Editorial Board of MDPI Telecom, and in the TPC of several international conferences as well as reviewer of international journals. He has received ICREA Academia awards in engineering sciences in 2015 and 2020.

Link: https://personals.ac.upc.edu/lvelasco/

Prof Darko ZIBAR works at the Department of Photonics Engineering, at the Technical University of Denmark and is the group leader of Machine Learning in Photonics Systems (M-LiPS) group. He received his M.Sc. degree in telecommunication and his Ph.D. degree in optical communications from the Technical University of Denmark, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He has been on several occasions (2006, 2008 and 2019) visiting researcher with the Optoelectronic Research Group led by Prof. John E. Bowers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB). At UCSB, he has been working on topics ranging from analog and digital demodulation techniques for microwave photonics links and machine learning enabled ultra-sensitive laser phase noise measurements techniques. In 2009, he was a visiting researcher with Nokia-Siemens Networks, working on clock recovery techniques for 112 Gb/s polarization multiplexed optical communication systems. In 2018, he was visiting Professor with Optical Communication (Prof. Andrea Carena, OptCom) group, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino working on the topic of machine learning based Raman amplifier design.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darko-zibar-1779b73

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