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- Associate Professor
- Dept of Electronic & Electrical Eng
- Faculty of Engineering Science
George Zervas is currently an Associate 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, EPSRC and 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 expert reviewer on various funding bodies.


Research:
Optical network technologies and control
Data centres and high performance computing
Software/hardware defined networks
Reconfigurable computing and programmable hardwareRecent research funding:
- 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:
Current research associates:
Former PhD students and research associates:
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)
01-OCT-2018 | Associate Professor of Optical Networked Systems | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | University College London, United Kingdom |
2009 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Essex | |
2003 | Master of Engineering (Honours) | University of Essex |