Prof. Pak Tao LAU, Alan
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Biography
Alan Pak Tao Lau received the B.A.Sc. degree in engineering science (electrical option) and the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2008. He then joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor and he is currently a Professor. His current research interests include digital signal processing and machine learning techniques for various aspects of optical communication systems and networks, optical performance monitoring as well as optical fiber sensing. He collaborates extensively with Industry and serves as invited/tutorial speaker, organizing committee chair and associate editor for Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), Journal of Lightwave Technology(JLT) among others.
Topic: "Dynamic and self-aware Optical Communications and Networks"
Abstract
Future optical communications and networks needs to be high speed, flexible, dynamic that can cater for applications ranging from 6G wireless, AI, metaverse just to name a few. We will review the technical challenges and key advances in recent years to enable such telecom infrastructure of the future
