Francesca Parmigiani

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I am a member of the Future AI Infrastructure team at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, where I am leading the analog optical computing (AOC) project. I was elected as 2026 Optica Fellow.

Before joining Microsoft in July 2018, I was Principal Research Fellow at the ORC, which I had joined to carry out my PhD. At the ORC, I worked on all-optical sub-systems solutions, primarily based on a variety of nonlinear processes for optical communication, such as phase sensitive amplification and optical phase conjugation. I also worked on optical data transmission over engineered multi-mode optical fibres for short reach applications as well as investigated a variety of nonlinear processes in multi mode fibres and waveguides. In 2010 I won a five year Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship to advance my work in the area of nonlinear processes for advanced modulation formats. During my time at the ORC, I have been visiting several university labs for short-term projects, for example, at the technical University of Denmark Fotonik (Prof. P. Jeppesen) in 2007 and at the university of Karlsruhe (Prof. J. Leuthold) in 2008-2009.

I obtained my M.Sc. from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

I was author/co-author of more than 200 publications in the highest prestigious optical communications technology journals and conferences and of 5 chapters in various different published books (e. g. Elsevier and Wiley). I have been working in several research projects such as EU PHASORS, EU TRIUMPH, EU FP7 ICT-BONE and EPSRC First Grant SPEED (EP/P026575/1) .

I was Topical Editor  for Optics Letters, OSA, from January 2019 till January 2025, and an Associated Editor  for the Journal of Quantum Electronics, IEEE, till January 2019. I am/have been Technical Programme Committee member for various prestigious optical communications technology conferences.