Edson Porto da Silva

Biography

He was born in Pocinhos - PB, on August 9, 1988. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) since 2011, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) since 2013, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) since 2017. Between June and October 2016, he was a visiting researcher in the telecommunications department of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany. Between April 2017 and July 2018, he held a postdoctoral position as a member of the Silicon Photonics for Optical Communication (SPOC) center of excellence in the DTU Photonics Engineering Department. Between July 2011 and November 2013, he worked as a telecommunications researcher at the Telecommunication Research and Development Center (CPqD) in Campinas, Sao Paulo. Since August 2018, he is part of the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department of UFCG, integrating the area of Telecommunications. His research topics involve digital signal processing for coherent optical receivers, mitigation of non-linear distortions in optical channels, high-speed optical transmission and Information Theory. Together with other members of DTU's high-speed optical communications research group, researchers from Southampton University and Fujikura Ltd, he has received from the European Commission the Horizon Prize, in 2016, for contributions made to the advancement of optical transmission technologies.