Luis Velasco

Background

About Luis Velasco

He received the M.Sc. degree in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 1993, the Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2001, and the PhD degree from UPC in 2009. He joined Telefonica in 1989 and was involved on the standardization (ITU-T), procurement processes (RFI and RFP), and first office application of Telefonica’s SDH transport network, including both transmission and network management systems. He has a large experience in innovation and exploitation since 1995, when he founded Simedia, a SME focused on the incipient Internet market that was acquired in by a major Internet player. In 2004 he joined UPC, where currently he is a Full Professor in the DAC and senior researcher in the CCABA. Prof. Luis Velasco has co-authored more than 100 papers in international journals and more than 200 contributions to peer-reviewed international conferences. He co-authored the book “Provisioning, Recovery and In-operation Planning in Elastic Optical Networks” (Wiley, 2017) and co-edited the book “Elastic Optical Networks: Architectures, Technologies, and Control” (Springer, 2016). He is serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), is member of the Editorial Board of the MDPI Telecom Journal, and served as Guest Editor of the Special Issues “Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing in the Internet of Things,” MDPI Sensors and “Machine Learning Applied to QoT Estimation in Optical Networks,” JOCN. Finally, he is in the TPC of several international conferences, as well as reviewer of international journals. He has participated in various IST/ICT FP-6, FP-7, and H2020 European research projects. He is currently participating in ALLEGRO, SEASON, PREDICT-6G and DESIRE6G HORIZON EUROPE research projects, where he leads the application of AI/ML for autonomous network operation, including DIGITAL TWINING forQuantum key Distribution, Optical tranmission, and Deterministic Networking.