Professional Experience

Columbia University, Department of Electrical Engineering                        

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist. PI: Prof. Keren Bergman

University College London, London Centre for Nanotechnology                     

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Host: Prof. Andrew Fisher

Alcatel Bell, Research & Innovations Department                                               

Research Systems Engineer Optical Access. GL: Dr. Peter Vetter

 

Education

PhD Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium                                               

MSc Physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria                                                        

 

Awards and Honors

MIT Rising Stars 2015 Workshop invited participant                                                          

Columbia University and NYC ASCENT Postdoc Symposium 2015 Award                 

Marie-Curie Fellowship 2011-2013 - European Commission                                        Best Paper Award at SPECTS 2006

 

Invited Talks

CNSR-Telecom Paris Tech, France , November 2015    

“Optical switches and interconnects with silicon photonic microring resonators”

Institut d’Optique, Paris, France, November 2015    

“Optical switches and interconnects with silicon photonic microring resonators”

University College London, Department of Electrical Engineering ,June 2013    

“Magnetic plasmonics and squeezed light”

 University of Surrey, Department of Physics, January 2013

“Magneto-plasmonics”

University College London, TY Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials,December 2012    

“The promise of plasmonics”

Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium ,July 2009

“Packet scheduling for single and multiple channel networks”