Antonio La Porta
Engineering
IBM Research
Switzerland
Biography
Antonio La Porta joined IBM Research - Zurich as a Research Staff Member in 2010. His research focuses on the electro-optical integration of photonic devices with particular emphasis on the scalable packaging of silicon photonics at the chip and system level. Before joining IBM, Antonio was an R&D engineer at Linkra srl, where he was responsible for developing an electro-optical DPSK transceiver at 40 Gb/s. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Università di Catania and obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, where he studied optoelectronic subsystems for optical packet-switched networks. Antonio La Porta joined IBM Research - Zurich as a Research Staff Member in 2010. His research focuses on the electro-optical integration of photonic devices with particular emphasis on the scalable packaging of silicon photonics at the chip and system level. Before joining IBM, Antonio was an R&D engineer at Linkra srl, where he was responsible for developing an electro-optical DPSK transceiver at 40 Gb/s. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Università di Catania and obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, where he studied optoelectronic subsystems for optical packet-switched networks.
Research Interest
Electrical and Communication Engineering
