Élie Awwad

Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) in Optical Communications

LTCI
Télécom Paris
Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Room 3D58
19 Place Marguerite Perey
91120 Palaiseau, France

Email: elie.awwad(at)telecom-paris.fr
Tel.: +33 1 75 31 40 31


I joined Télécom Paris in October 2019 as an associate professor in the optical transmission team (GTO: Groupe de Transmission Optique) of the LTCI lab (Laboratoire de Traitement et de Communication de l’Information). I am currently co-supervising PhD thesis projects dealing with monitoring optical fiber networks and optical fiber sensing. I teach several courses at the school including a module on optical fiber transmissions in the Réseaux Optiques et Systèmes Photoniques (ROSP) M2 master program. I hold M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the Lebanese University and telecom engineering from Télécom Paris (2011), and a PhD in communications and electronics from Télécom Paris (2015). Previously, I worked as a research scientist at Nokia (ex- Alcatel-Lucent) Bell Labs from 2015 until 2019. I am also a regular reviewer for several scientific journals and serve as a TPC member of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) since 2022. My research funding sources include national CIFRE agreements (joint PhD supervision with industrial partners) and grants from public and private sectors.

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