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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Best Paper Award, ONDM (2024); Best Paper Award in Industry Innovation at ACP conference, Wuhan, China (2023); CELTIC-NEXT Excellence Award (2020); Harm Dorren Commemoration Prize at ECOC conference, Valencia, Spain (2015); IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer (top 3% of the reviewers) (2014, 2015, 2016); IEEE Senior Member (2012); Symposium best paper award (top paper out of around 200 submissions) at IEEE ICC (2006).
Research Experience
January 2020 - present: Head of AI for Optical Networking team at Huawei Technologies; November 2009 - January 2020: Department Head of Dynamic optical networking and switching at Bell Labs (Nokia, formerly Alcatel-Lucent); September 2008 - September 2009: Technical leader on behalf of AIT of the DICONET project at Athens Information Technology (AIT); August 2006 - August 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia in August 2006, supervised by Prof. Maïté Brandt-Pearce; MS in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in August 2002; holds an engineering degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) from Ecole Centrale de Lille, France.
Background
Leads the AI for Optical Networking team at Huawei Technologies. Research interests include routing and wavelength assignment, monitoring in transparent optical networks, etc.
Miscellany
Erdös number is 3 or less; has supervised or participated in the review of multiple Ph.D. projects.