Minisymposium Presentation

Nicola Andriolli received the Laurea degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Pisa in 2002, and the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He was a Visiting Student at DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark and a Guest Researcher at NICT, Tokyo, Japan. In 2007-2019 he was an Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in 2019-2023 he was with the National Research Council of Italy as a Researcher and then Senior Researcher at the Institute of Electronics, Information Engineering and Telecommunications (CNR-IEIIT). Since 2024 he is an Associate Professor in Telecommunications at the University of Pisa at the Department of Information Engineering.His background encompasses the design and performance analysis of optical circuit-switched and packet-switched networks and nodes. His research interests include photonic integration technologies for telecom, datacom and computing applications. His work has encompassed optical processing and optical interconnection network architectures and scheduling, and more recently, he have been investigating integrated transceivers, comb sources, as well as architectures and subsystems for photonic neural networks.He has authored over 200 publications in international journals and conferences, contributed to one IETF RFC, and filed 11 patents. Additionally, he has served as a Technical Program Committee Member for several international conferences (ICC, GLOBECOM, ECOC, EuCNC, IPR, PSC), worked as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, and he is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal.

Manuel Le Gallo joined IBM Research Europe in 2013, where he is currently employed as a Staff Research Scientist in the In-Memory Computing group of the Zurich laboratory. His main research interest is in using phase-change memory devices for non-von Neumann computing. He has co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in journal and conferences, holds 35 granted patents and has given 15 invited talks. He was appointed IBM Master Inventor in 2019 and 2024 for significant contributions to intellectual property and is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review's 2020 Innovators Under 35 award.