Dr. Divanilson R. Campelo

Divanilson R. Campelo received the Electrical Engineering degree in 1998 from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil, with a three-year term of an undergraduate research program at the Laser Dynamics Lab of the Physics Department at UFPE. In 2001, he received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil. Concurrently to his M.Sc. program at UNICAMP, he was systems engineer at Nortel Networks, where he contributed to the deployment of a number of SDH and WDM systems for large telecom operators in Brazil. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering also from UNICAMP, where he stayed until 2007 as a postdoc research fellow. After his stay at UNICAMP, he joined in 2007 the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil, as an Assistant Professor of the university's School of Engineering, with a short term visit to the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal in the same year. Since September 2008, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of the Photonics and Networking Research Laboratory of Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA. He is a reviewer of several international conferences and journals, and is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). His current research interests are in next-generation broadband access networks and optical interconnection networks for high-performance computing systems.

Dr. David Larrabeiti

David Larrabeiti is professor in Switching and Networking Architectures at University Carlos III of Madrid. He obtained his MsC and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 1991 and 1996. Since 1990, he has participated in National and EU-funded research projects related to next generation networks and protocols. This activity was developed in the context of RACE, IST and ICT programmes. In 2006 David was technical manager of REDIMadrid, the research network of the Community of Madrid, a backbone infrastructure made up of metropolitan DWDM optical rings. He is currently a member of the BONE network of excellence on Optical Networks, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University PNRL group during the academic year 2009-2010 with the support of the Spanish Ministries of Science and Technology/Education, under mobility grant PR2009-0221. His publications related to optical networking includes papers at IEEE Communications magazine, JLT, PNC, LNCS, Globecom, etc. His research project at Stanford includes the design of hybrid electro-optical switches and multipoint optical communications.

Shinji Yamashita

Shinji Yamashita is currently a Visiting Scholar of the Photonics and Networking Research Laboratory (PNRL) at Stanford University. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In 1998, he joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and has been engaged in research and development of optical modules, ICs and MEMS devices. His current research interests are in next-generation optical networks and novel functional optical modules. He is a member of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering (IEICE) of Japan.

Luca Valcarenghi

Luca Valcarenghi holds a Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering (1997) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1999), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Telecommunications (2001) both from the University of
Texas at Dallas (UTD). Between January 2002 and August 2002 he was Research Associate of the Optical Networking Advanced Research (OpNeAR) Lab of the University of Texas at Dallas Erik Jonsson School of EE/CS. Since September 2002 he is Assistant Professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of University Studies and Doctoral Research of Pisa, Italy.
Dr. Valcarenghi published more than 100 papers in International Journals and Conference Proceedings and actively participated in the TPC of Globecom and ICC Optical Network and System Symposium and Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium. His main research interests are Optical Networks design, analysis, and optimization; Artificial Intelligence optimization techniques; Communication Networks reliability; IP over WDM networking; QoS in network infrastructures for Grid computing; broadband wireless access (802.16); fixed and mobile network integration; fixed network backhauling for mobile networks; energy saving in communications network.
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