17 May 2024, online only
| Time | Speaker/Item | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 09:45-10:30 UK; 10:45-11:30 CET | Prof. Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden | Emerging technologies in optical communications |
| 10:30-11:15 UK; 11:30-12:15 CET | Georgios Sarantoglou, PhD student, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece. | Neuromorphic photonic accelerators for short reach high baud rate and low complexity optical communication systems |
| 45 minutes break | ||
| 12:00-12:45 UK; 13:00-13:45 CET | Prof. Vittorio Curri, Polito, Turin, Italy | Working title: Blending Physics and Machine Learning Models: The Perfect Recipe for the Physical Layer Digital Twin |
| Lunch 1 hour | ||
| 14:00-14:45 UK; 15:00-15:45 CET | Prof. Periklis Petropoulos, Opto electronics Research Centre, Southampton University, Southampton, UK | Working title: Optical transmission in new wavelength bands |
Symposium Speakers
Prof. Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Magnus Karlsson is professor in photonics, with focus on fiber optics and optical communications. His expertise is wave propagation in optical fibers, polariztion effects, nonlinearities and optical communications. Together with Prof. Peter Andrekson, he leads the fiber optics group at the Photonics Laboratory. In 2010 he co-founded the Fiber Optic communication Research CEnter (FORCE) at Chalmers. Besides teaching SSY085, “Wireless an Photonics System Engineering” and MCC046 “Photonics and Lasers” he is Deputy Editor for Optics Express, Assoc. Editor for J. Lightwave Technol., and member in the technical program committee for Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). He is Head of Department in Photonics, Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers.
George Sarantoglou, University of the Aegean, Greece
George Sarantoglou obtained his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2016. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. thesis with the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on the experimental analysis and development of photonic processors for unconventional, bio-inspired information processing. His research experience includes the design and experimental investigation of integrated photonic technologies as AI accelerators, bio-inspired event-based neural networks and machine learning paradigms for artificial imaging and telecom applications.
Prof. Vittorio Curri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Vittorio Curri received the Laurea degree cum laude in electrical engineering and his PhD in optical communications from the Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Turin, Italy, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He is a Full Professor in Optical Communications and Networks, the Founder Member of the OptCom Group and of the PhotonLab, at DET of PoliTo. He has been Visiting Researcher at Stanford University and UCSB. He is part of the team developing the transmission models of lightpaths as Gaussian Noise channels. He is one of the promoters of using the multiband transmission in single-mode fibers, developed within the EU doctoral network WON, a project that recently concluded with outstanding judgement from the EU. He is also active in the analysis of the impact of physical layer on networking for planning and control of open and disaggregated optical networks, including AI techniques and is the Scientific Chair of the GNPy open source project within the consortium TIP. Prof. Curri has been/is PI of several vendors’ funded research projects and is (2024) currently WP leader in the RIGOLETTO project, NESTOR doctoral network and task leader in the ALLEGRO project, all funded by the EU. Prof. Curri has tutored 27 PhD students. He is author of more than 450 scientific publications with 10500+ citations and H-i=49. He has been Guest Editor of SIs on JOCN and JLT and he is a TPC member of ICTON, NetSoft, APC-Networs, ONDM, ANTS and ACP. He has been invited, also as keynote and tutorial speaker, in major IEEE and OPTICA conferences. He is IEEE Senior Member and Fellow OPTICA.
Prof. Periklis Petropoulos, Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
A Professor of Optical Communications and Optical Fibre Technologies at the Optoelectronics Research Centre and Fellow of the Optical Society of America with extensive research experience. Periklis does research in Photonics and is mainly interested in the applications of optical fibre and waveguide technologies in communications. His specific interests include all-optical nonlinear signal processing, novel nonlinear materials, optical transmission and silicon transceiver technology.
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