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Prof Georgios Zervas
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Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Roberts Building
London
WC1E 7JE
Appointment
- Professor of Optical Networked Systems
- Dept of Electronic & Electrical Eng
- Faculty of Engineering Science
Biography
George Zervas is a Professor of Optical Networked Systems. He has made significant contributions to optical switching, networking, and architectures of data centers and telecommunication networks.
He is the author and co-author of over 230 international peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and received best paper awards. He has also given over 30 invited talks at several international conferences. George has been involved in several EC, EPSRCand industrial funded projects as principal and co-investigator. He has been acting as a TPC member and chair on international conferences such as OFC, ICC, Globecom, ONDM, ACP, among others. He is associate editor of IEEE Networking Letters and has been serving as guest associate editor on IEEE JOCN. Dr. Zervas has been involved in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Open Grid Forum (OGF) standardization fora. He has been serving as an expert reviewer on various funding bodies.
Research Groups
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Research:
Optical switching, networking and control
Data centres and high-performance computing
Software/hardware-defined networks
Reconfigurable computing and programmable hardwareRecent research funding:
- PI: The quantum data centre of the future, 2022-24, Innovate UK
- PI: OptoCloud: Ultra-fast optically interconnected heterogeneous Data Centers, 2021-26, EPSRC Fellowship EP/T026081/1
- PI: Space Division Multiplexed Networks: Where, when and how, 2020-24, EPSRC iCASE & BT
- PI: Towards 1000-times capacity increase for Self-x Cloud network infrastructure, 2019-2022, EPSRC CASE & HUBER+SUHNER Polatis
- PI: Optical fabric for zero-latency memory disaggregation at Pb/s cluster scale network, 2019-2022, Microsoft Research Cambridge
- CoI: TRANSNET: Transforming networks - building an intelligent optical infrastructure, 2018-2024, EPSRC Program Grant
- PI: dRedBox: Disaggregated Data Center in a Box, 2016-2018, EU H2020
Current PhD students:
Xun Mu
Alessandro Ottino
Christopher Parsonson
Zak Shabka
Hadi Alkharsan
Yanwu Liu
Current research associates:
Vaibhawa Mishra
Joshua Benjamin
Former PhD students and research associates:
Joshua Benjamin (PhD)
Hui Yuan (PhD), now with Huawei
Paris Andreades (PhD), now with ORCA Computing
Qianqiao Chen (PhD)
Adaranijo Peters (PhD)
George Saridis (PhD), now with Semtech
Bijan R. Rofoee (PhD), now with Google
Arsalan Saljoghei (RA), now with Lumenisity
Teaching Summary
ELEC0010: Digital Design (BEng/MEng Year 2)
ELEC0049: Optical Transmission and Networks (MSc & MEng Year 4)
ELEC0137: Cloud, Data Centres and Edge Computing (MSc & MEng Year 4)
Appointments
| 01-OCT-2021 | Professor of Optical Networked Systems | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | University College London, United Kingdom |
| 01-OCT-2018 – 30-SEP-2021 | Associate Professor of Optical Networked Systems | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | University College London, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
| 2009 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Essex | |
| 2003 | Master of Engineering (Honours) | University of Essex |
