20/09/2013
Invitado CIT'2013 - ETCC'2013
NEIL GUERRERO GONZALEZ
Was born on July 19th, 1982, in Cucuta, Colombia. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2005 and the M.Sc. degree in 2007 from the National University of Colombia. During his Ph.D. studies in Photonics at the Technical University of Denmark (2008 - 2011), he developed a novel approach to implement joint phase, frequency and signal modulation format estimation for signal detection and demodulation in phase-modulated radio-over-fiber systems. In 2010, he worked on Optical Performance Monitoring within the framework of the EU FP7 project “BONE” at Huawei Technologies in Munich. He is a recipient of an honorable mention in the 2011 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition, OFC 2011, for his work on a novel reconfigurable digital coherent receiver for metro-access networks supporting mixed modulation formats and bit rates. In the period between January 2012 and February 2013, Dr. Guerrero Gonzalez was associated as a Researcher at the European Research Center (ERC) - Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, in Munich. During his employment with Huawei, Dr. Guerrero Gonzalez and his team were responsible for designing, developing and implementing a Nyquist Terabit Super-channel. The Super-channel was tested on Vodafone’s and Deutsche Telekom’s facilities achieving successful optical signal transmission and demodulation over 2900 and 3300 km of deployed optical fiber. In January 2013 Dr. Guerrero Gonzalez and the entire Optical Team were awarded with the Huawei “Gold Medal” for outstanding contribution on system design and implementation of Terabit Super-channels. The “Gold Medal” is the worldwide highest award provided by the Company. Currently, Dr. Guerrero Gonzalez is associated as manager of the optical transmission systems and integrated photonics to the Center of Research and Development of Telecommunications (CPqD, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento das Telecomunicações) in Campinas (Brazil). His research interests are in 1) hybrid optical-wireless communication systems, 2) coherent detection technologies and digital photonic receivers for wireless and wireline optical fiber transmission links, and 3) design and experimental implementation of Terabit Super-channels.