Consortium

Chigo Okonkwo

Dr Chigo Okonkwo currently leads the research track on High-Capacity Optical Transmission at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is a founding member of the Center for Quantum Materials and Technology (QT/e) at TU/e working on a multi-disciplinary approach to Quantum communications and cyber-security. Dr Okonkwo has published over 250 papers in major optical communication journals …

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Alex Alvarado

Dr Alex Alvarado is Associate Professor in the Signal Processing Systems group atEindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he leads the Information andCommunication Theory Lab (ICT Lab). His research focuses on developing afundamental theoretical understanding of current and future telecommunicationsystems and lies on the frontier of communication theory, information theory, signalprocessing, and optical communications. Alvarado …

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Yunus Can Gültekin

Dr. Yunus Can Gültekin received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degrees from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, both in electrical and electronics Engineering, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2020 from TU/e, the Netherlands. During 2020, Gültekin worked at TU/e as a university researcher. Since January 2021, he has …

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Thomas Bradley

Dr Thomas Bradley is currently a senior research in the High Capacity Optical Transmission Group at Eindhoven University of Technology and is a senior member of OPTICA. His current research focuses on the novel optical fibres and fibre devices to quantum sensing, quantum key distribution, quantum secure authentication and high capacity data transmission. He had …

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Maria Freire-Hermelo

Dr Maria Freire-Hermelo received her PhD degree from the Institute Polytechnique de Paris (France) in 2020. Currently, she is working as a postdoc at TU/e. Her main research interests are digital signal processing and machine learning for optical fibre communications. Since 2021, she is an IEEE Senior Member. She has experience teaching and supervising undergraduate …

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Darko Zibar

Professor Darko Zibar, group leader of Machine Learning in Photonics Systems (M- LiPS) group, will be responsible for supervision of DRs and support of other DRs where the focus is on the development of fast and effective machine learning algorithms. His commitment to the project is 50% FTE. His expertise is in the field of …

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Francesco Da Ros

Dr Francesco Da Ros, senior researcher in the Machine Learning in Photonics Systems (M-LiPS) group, will be supporting the supervision of DRs as co-supervisor, especially for the experimental part. His commitment to the project is 25% FTE. His expertise is in the field of optical communication systems and signal processing, including both optical and digital …

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Laurent Schmalen

Prof. Dr. Laurent Schmalen was born in Luxembourg and received both his Dipl.-Ing. degree and his Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Between 2011 and 2016, he was a research engineer in Alcatel- Lucent Bell Labs in Stuttgart, Germany, where he worked on forward error correction schemes for …

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Konrad Banaszek

Prof Konrad Banaszek is the director of the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies hosted by the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland. After receiving in 2000 a PhD degree in physics from the University of Warsaw, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Rochester, USA, and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. …

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Marcin Jarzyna

Dr Marcin Jarzyna received his PhD degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland in 2016. Currently, he is working at the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies hosted by the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw. His research focuses on quantum and classical communication with emphasis on realistic modulation, transmission, and detection scenarios, especially in …

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