Research Fellow in photonics/optical networking

Post Summary

Novel optical access and metro networks are essential to support fast growing capacity requirement, driven by future applications and services for 6G and beyond. Networks are also evolving to support a large variety of signals across larger access and metro network areas. For these novel scenarios, flexibility becomes an essential feature, driven by the development of flexible components and open networks. However, the adaptability and reconfigurability of the networks brings with it a suit of new challenges such as the requirement for intelligent performance monitoring methods, quality of transmission estimation and new physical layer modelling techniques.

One Post Doctoral researcher position is available for work in the area of intelligent AI-driven physical layer optical communications networks. The work will involve the development of novel monitoring techniques (using both fibre sensing and coherent transceiver-based channel probing) and AI models of optical components and networks. The work will also include the experimental validation of the developed methods in the access and metro environment.

The applicants should have a solid theoretical and experimental background on physical layer optical networks and machine learning and be willing to engage in testbed-oriented research. The work will be carried out in the new OpenIreland research infrastructure, a large-scale testbed for experimentation in optical, wireless and cloud technologies.

The position will be based in the CONNECT research centre at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and will be funded under the European Horizon project ECO-eNET and other national, European, and industry projects. The researcher will have the opportunity to build their research portfolio within a range of projects within CONNECT. The researcher will also be part of the School of Engineering in TCD.

The position will be under the direction of Dr Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah and Prof. Dan Kilper.

Application Procedure

Applicants should submit a full Curriculum Vitae to include the names and contact details of 2 referees (including email addresses), to:

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