Optical Communications, Researcher at UCL
London, England
Joined October 2011
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Eric Sillekens retweeted
You gotta be kidding me dude
Waited since I was 7 years old to see the Bayeux Tapestry. Got in an hour-long online queue to spend £50 on tickets. Got there ahead of time. Stood in a queue for 20 minutes. Then was told halfway through the queue that the gallery was closing.
The @britishmuseum stinks 😭
Eric Sillekens retweeted
Ahead of OFC 2026, Ronit takes us through the work of our TRANSNET programme and his research into the energy efficiency of optical amplifiers. Come along to our sessions if you’re attending OFC this year and would like to find out more! #opticalnetworks #ofc2026 @ofcconference
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We are happy to announce that we have 13 papers accepted for @ofcconference this year - including one invited and three top-scored! Read the full list and find timings here: bit.ly/4k4kTrn
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Professor Yann LeCun (@ylecun) received the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (@QEPrize) from King Charles III at a ceremony in London yesterday. Congratulations to Professor LeCun and his fellow honorees!
Read more: qeprize.org/news/king-presen…
Photo: QEPrize/Jason Alden
Today, The King presented The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering at St James's Palace, celebrating the innovations which are transforming our world.
🧠 This year’s prize honours seven pioneers whose work has shaped modern artificial intelligence.
🔗 Find out more: qeprize.org/winners/modern-m…
Eric Sillekens retweeted
We are so happy to have Daniele from NICT visiting and working in our labs! NICT is a longstanding partner of ours and Daniele's fibre sensing and communications experiment is the latest project in our ongoing collaboration with them 🤝Looking forward to some exciting results!
Eric Sillekens retweeted
@ECOC_Conference #ecoc2025 We’re here! Catching up with alumni and industry friends, and looking forward to the presentations! @AstonPhotonics @bayvel_p
Why is nobody showing love for the AI, only 2.8% sees this as a solution for characterisation of future 300GBd systems?
Eric Sillekens retweeted
Alex and Eric had a wonderful time in Japan at OECC! Eric also visited our friends at NICT, while Alex travelled all over Japan and sent us some beautiful photos 🇯🇵 instagram.com/reel/DMcdsJgM9…
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We are proud to announce that our colleague Dr Yuta Wakayama from @KDDI_Research has been named Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL! The full article can be found here: bit.ly/3I80EKG
Eric Sillekens retweeted
hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking
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Spotted in @royalsociety’s Charter Book… our very own @bayvel_p! It was such a pleasure to look through the history of the society and see so many influential names, very inspiring for our researchers!
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Could semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) serve as a low-energy amplifier in next generation optical networks? This @ucleeenews @UCLEngineering paper, led by @RAEngNews Research Fellow @ESillekens is a first step in answering this question! @IEEEPhotonics
New paper alert! @ESillekens presents the first experimental investigation of semiconductor optical amplifiers for long-haul high-speed communications - read the full article here bit.ly/4jj1jWp
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URGENT - 4 #PhDposition #PhD #studentships available in optical communications & networks; advanced DSP, AI & devices for quantum internet. HOME students only. RT pls! Apply by **2 June** linkedin.com/posts/polina-ba…
Eric Sillekens retweeted
I was lucky to receive support from @royalsociety >30 years, first as #RSURF and now - RS Research Professor! So I was honoured to be 'tracked' in recent Royal Society 'career tracker' publications inc on the economic impacts of discovery science: royalsociety.org/grants/care…