Regular biography
Polina Bayvel is a Professor of Optical Communications & Networks at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University College London. Her research focuses on optical communications and networks, with an emphasis on the development and optimization of high-capacity optical transmission systems. She is affiliated with University College London and can be contacted via email at p.bayvel@ucl.ac.uk. Her professional profile is available at https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/4662.
Scholar-generated biography
Polina Bayvel is a Professor of Optical Communications & Networks at University College London, specializing in optical communications, optical networks, optical transmission, nonlinear optics, and photonics. Her research focuses on advancing optical communication systems through innovative techniques such as electronic dispersion compensation, digital coherent receivers, and mitigation of fiber nonlinearity. She has contributed significantly to the development of high-capacity long-haul optical transmission, resilient optical networks, and the application of deep learning in optical fiber communications. Her work addresses key challenges in signal integrity, bandwidth optimization, and the performance of multichannel digital backpropagation in modern optical networks.