A. D. Ellis

Andrew D. Ellis was born in Underwood, U.K., in 1965. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics with a minor in mathematics from the University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from The University of Aston in Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., in 1997, for his study on all optical networking beyond 10-Gbit/s. He previously worked with British Telecom Research Laboratories, as a Senior Research Engineer, investigating the use of optical amplifiers and advanced modulation formats in optical networks and the Corning Research Centre, as a Senior Research Fellow, where he led activities in optical component characterization. From 2003, he headed with the Transmission and Sensors Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland, where he was also a member with the Department of Physics, University College Cork. He is currently a 50th Anniversary Professor of Optical Communications with Aston University, where he is also a Deputy Director of the Institute of Photonics Technologies (AiPT), and he holds an Adjunct Professorships with the Department of Physics, University College Cork and the Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE), Dublin City University. He has published over 200 journal articles and over 28 patents in the field of photonics, primarily targeted at increasing capacity, reach, and functionality in the optical layer. His research interests include evolution of core and metro networks, and the application of photonics to sensing. Prof. Ellis is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee of ECOC, since 2004, and two three year terms on the TPC of OFC. He was a Co-Chair of the TPC for ECOC 2019. He served for six years as an Associate Editor for the journal Optics Express.