José Núñez Kasaneva
Doctoral Candidate 1
Eindhoven University of Technology
Short Bio: José was born in 1997 in Calama, Chile. He received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MSc. in Electrical Engineering, both from Universidad de Concepción (UDEC), Chile, in 2021 and 2022, respectively. His current interests include optical networks, optical communications, digital signal processing, forward error correction (FEC), machine learning and optimization.
Research Project: Advanced DSP and transmission strategies for metro/access networks.
Project Summary: Developing DSP and coded-modulation techniques for low- cost optical transceivers. Enhancing transmission performance for the short-haul network segment. Devising strategies to reduce computational complexity and latency of the introduced solutions to simplify the architecture and to reduce the energy consumption.
| Host Institution: | Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) Information and Communication Theory Lab https://www.tue-ictlab.nl/ |
| Supervisors: | Dr Gabriele Liga; Prof Alex Alvarado |
| Secondment planned: | Nokia Germany (Munich) |
| PhD Enrolment Institution: | Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) |
| Industrial Mentor: | Dr Antonio Napoli |
- J. Nύñez-Kasaneva, B. Karanov, A. Alvarado and G. Liga, "Blind Equalization in Dynamic PMD Channels Using Variational Autoencoders with LSTM," 2025 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025, pp. 1-3. Zenodo OA: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17273355
The secondment visit for Jose is planned for the second half of 2026, led by Dr Antonio Napoli at the NESTOR partner Nokia Germany (Munich). Further details on the objectives, progress, and outcomes of the secondment will be made available in due course.