A Short Biography

Dr. Emilio Hugues Salas is a Research Fellow in the High Performance Networks group at the University of Bristol. He received his MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Essex, UK, in 2002 and 2008, respectively, following his BSc in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), México, in 1997. From 1998 to 2002, he joined Alcatel-Lucent México (now Nokia) as a Product Engineer in the Transmission Systems Department, where he was engaged in designing PDH, SDH, and WDM networks. From 2006 to 2015 he was involved in several European-funded projects including MUSE, TRIUMPH, ALPHA, OCEAN and IDEALIST. Currently he is involved in the UK-funded projects NDFIS, the Quantum Communications Hub and MANGI. His current research interests include high speed optical communications systems focusing on high performance, flexible, multidimensional and secure photonic sub-systems, systems and networks for access, metro and core networks as well as Intra and Inter Data Centre applications and 5G, looking into all-optical switching, processing and data generation of advanced modulation formats, transport and networking, together with the co-existence of “classical” optical channels with quantum channels for quantum key distribution (QKD). He is also involved in the definition and operation of the UK national dark fibre infrastructure service (NDFIS) as well as the interoperation of the HPN laboratory with the city 5G Testbed. He is the author and co-author of over 100 papers. He is a reviewer of several IEEE, Elsevier and OSA journals and he is a Full College member of the UK EPSRC Associate College. He has also the position of Coordinator of Research Experimentation within the HPN group in Bristol, coordinating different testbeds within the HPN laboratory and across Faculties.