Research Associate

Institution:

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento

Address:

via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa (PI), Italy

Phone:

+390505492138

Fax:

+390505492194

E-mail:

valcarenghi@sssup.it

Short Bio

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 co-authored more than forty-five papers published in international journals and presented in leading international conferences. He is member of the IEEE and he has been part of the Organizing Committee and Technical Program Committee of international conferences such as OptiComm2000, Optical Networking and Systems Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2003, and Optical Communication Networks and Systems Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2004. 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; Wired and Wireless network integration.