ECOC 2025
Plenary Speakers
Anne L’Huillier
Plenary Speaker
Anne L’Huillier, a professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, started her career at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, in Saclay, France, first as a PhD student until 1986, then as a permanent researcher. In 1995, she moved to Lund University and became full professor in 1997. Her research, both theoretical and experimental, is centered around high-order harmonic generation in gases and its applications, in particular in attosecond science. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz for “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
Kazuhide Nakajima
Plenary Speaker
In 1994, Kazuhide Nakajima joined NTT, Japan, where he was engaged in research on optical fiber design and related measurement techniques. He has been a Rapporteur of Q5/SG15 of ITU-T since 2009. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Optica, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan, and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP).
Benny Mikkelsen
Plenary Speaker
Benny Mikkelsen is Senior Vice President and General Manager for Cisco’s Coherent Products and Components (Acacia) team. In 2009, Benny co-founded Acacia Communications, an early
pioneer in coherent optics. In March 2021, Acacia was acquired by Cisco. Previously, Benny co-founded and served as the Vice President of Technology at Mintera and has held various engineering positions with Bell Laboratories. Benny has published more than 200 papers and conference contributions in letters, journals, and conferences. Benny holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.
Edward Lee
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Edward Lee is Vice President of Mixed Signal Design at Nvidia, where he leads the development of all analog and mixed signal IPs as well as the company’s interconnect products including DSP and Silicon Photonics. He was instrumental in establishing and advancing three key high-speed interconnect technologies for Nvidia’s leading AI Infrastructure products: NVLink, NVLink-C2C, and CPO with integrated Silicon Photonics. Previously he was with Advanced Micro Devices and ATI Technologies.
Dr. Lee received Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001 and 1999 respectively and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997.