Farhad Arpanaei

Dr.Farhad Arpanaei is a Senior Research Fellow or Postdoctoral Researcher with Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy, where his research focuses on Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) scenarios in optical fiber communications and networking at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication (DET). He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D., both in Electrical Engineering with a major in Telecommunication Systems from South and Central Tehran Azad University with the highest distinction in 2010 and 2019, respectively. Since 2010, he worked as a lecturer and researcher involved in Iranian industrial companies and universities, and from 2013 to 2021 worked as an Expert of Establishment and Delivery Optical Transmission Services in Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC)-Ministry of ICT based in Tehran, Iran. The focus of his work in TIC had been spanned across WDM, SDH, and OTN transmission systems and network management systems (NMS) dedicated to well-known vendors such as Huawei Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) and Fiberhome. His research topic's main interest concentrates on the cross-layer design of Transmission Software-Defined Networks (TSDNs) by considering the concepts of Optimization and Machin learning methods. Farhad regularly acts as a reviewer in several highly ranked IEEE and Optical Society of America (OSA) journals of his fields of expertise (e.g., JLT, JOCN, and TOC). He is a member of IEEE and OSA.