Nicola Andriolli

Associate Professor, IEEE Senior Member

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione
University of Pisa
Via Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy

Phone: +39-050-2217-623
Skype: nickandr

e-mail: nicola.andriolli@unipi.it

Biography

I 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. I was a Visiting Student at DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark and a Guest Researcher at NICT, Tokyo, Japan. In 2007-2019 I was an Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in 2019-2023 I 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 I am an Associate Professor in Telecommunications at the University of Pisa at the Department of Information Engineering.

My background encompasses the design and performance analysis of optical circuit-switched and packet-switched networks and nodes. My research interests include photonic integration technologies for telecom, datacom and computing applications. My work has encompassed optical processing and optical interconnection network architectures and scheduling, and more recently, I have been investigating integrated transceivers, comb sources, as well as architectures and subsystems for photonic neural networks.

I have authored over 200 publications in international journals and conferences, contributed to one IETF RFC, and filed 11 patents. Additionally, I have served as a Technical Program Committee Member for several international conferences (ICC, Globecom, ECOC, EuCNC, IPR, PSC), as a co-Chair of the Optical Networks and Systems Symposium of Globecom 2023, as an Organizing Committee Member of the IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Intercoonects (HOTI) from 2019 on, of the IEEE 25th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) 2024, and of the Optical Network Design and Modeling Conference (ONDM) 2025, I was as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access in the term 2019-2022, and I am currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal.

Research interests

  • Integrated photonics for communications and processing
  • Neuromorphic photonics
  • Optical interconnection networks
  • Quantum key distribution and quantum integrated photonics

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