Keynote Speakers
Prof. Lena Wosinska
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
https://www.chalmers.se/en/persons/wosinska/
SHORT BIO
Lena Wosinska received her PhD degree in Photonics and Docent degree in Optical Networks from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden where she established and led a widely recognized research group working on optical networks. At KTH she was a Full Professor of Telecommunication until October 2018. Currently she is a Research Professor with the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where she moved together with her team. Her research broadly concerns optical communications and networks, with a focus on fiber access and 5G/6G transport networks, energy and cost efficiency, optical data center networks, photonics in switching, network control, reliability, security, and survivability incl. application of ML/AI. She was involved and had a leading role in several EU projects, as well as coordinating national and international research projects. She has been involved in many expert assignments, including serving in the panels evaluating research project proposals for many funding agencies, guest editorships of leading IEEE, OSA, Elsevier and Springer journals, serving as General Chair and Co-Chair of several IEEE, OSA and SPIE conferences and workshops. She has been an Associate Editor of OSA Journal of Optical Networking and IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. Currently she is serving on the Editorial Board of Springer Photonic Networks Communication Journal and of Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.
She received IEEE ComSoc ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Pioneering Research in Optical Networks.
Dr. Indermohan (Inder) S. Monga
Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
Executive Director of Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
SHORT BIO
Indermohan (Inder) S. Monga is the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the Department of Energy’s high-performance network user facility. Optimized for large-scale science, ESnet connects and provides services to more than 50 DOE research sites, including the entire National Laboratory system, its supercomputing facilities, and its major scientific instruments, as well as peers with 271 research and commercial networks worldwide. In addition to managing ESnet, Inder works to advance the science of networking for collaborative and distributed research applications, as well as contributes to ongoing research projects tackling quantum networking — he is the principal investigator for the Quantum Application Network Testbed for Novel Entanglement Technology (QUANT-NET) project — and the programmability, analytics, and quality of experience driving convergence between application layer and the network – he is the co-PI of NSF’s FABRIC testbed project. Prior to joining Berkeley Lab, Inder worked in network engineering for Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks, and Nortel. The holder of 25 patents, he received a B.S. in electrical/electronics engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and a master’s in computer engineering from Boston University.She received IEEE ComSoc ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Pioneering Research in Optical Networks.