Prof. Marco Ruffini

Biography: Marco Ruffini received the M.Eng. degree in telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 2007, where he joined Trinity College Dublin in 2005, after working as a Research Scientist with Philips, Germany.

He is Associate Professor and Fellow of Trinity College and he is Principal Investigator of both the IPIC Photonics Integration Centre and the CONNECT Telecommunications Research Centre. He is currently involved in several Science Foundation Ireland and H2020 projects, including a new research infrastructure to build a beyond 5G testbed in Dublin. Prof. Ruffini leads the Optical Network Architecture Group, TCD and has authored over 140 international publications, over ten patents and contributed to standards at the broadband forum. He has raised research funding in excess of €5.5M as Principal Investigaor. His main research is in the area of 5G optical networks, where he carries out pioneering work on the convergence of fixed-mobile and access-metro networks, and on the virtualization of next generation networks, and has been invited to share his vision through several keynote and talks at major international conferences across the world. He leads the new SFI funded Ireland’s Open Networking testbed infrastructure.

Research Interests: Optical access network virtualisation, Software defined networks, open networking disaggregated network architectures, machine learning for quality of transmission estimation, fixed-mobile convergence.