SubOptic 2023

Mr. Daniele Androni C.E.O. of  Subphoton, HW engineer with 30 years of experience in opto-electronics design and power electronics. Owner of 7 patents in electronics and optical telecommunication systems. Worked for Alcatel and Pirelli with growing responsibility. Since 2008 he contributed to...

Yan Aoshuang (Cathy Yan), Network Solution Manager of HMN Technologies, Co Ltd. She joined HMN Tech and is engaged in the network planning and design of marine cable systems since 2021. She has relevant experience in the submarine network system design, and marine cable related products and...

Jean-Francois Baget joined Alcatel Submarine Network in 1994 and has been involved in various technical functions in design, integration and engineering:• He is currently Technical Marketing Manager and Product Line Manager for submerged Equipment in ASN Product Strategy Group.• From 2007 to...

Stuart Barnes is Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Xtera. He received a BSc (Engineering) and PhD from Queen Mary College, University of London and is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Southampton University. He was Programme Chairman of SubOptic 2019 in New Orleans. Prior to...

Scott R. Bickham is a Development Fellow in the Corning Research and Development Corp. supporting Corning Optical Communications. He received a B.S. in physics from Purdue University in 1984 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Cornell University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. ...

Steinar Bjørnstad is strategic competence and research manager at Tampnet AS, Stavanger, Norway. He is also Senior research scientist at Simula MET, Oslo - Norway. He holds a Ph.d. in optical communication from NTNU, Trondheim, Norway and has published more than 60 papers and patents within optical ...

Jean-Pierre Blondel is Global Project Manager within Alcatel Submarine Networks. He got positions as research engineer, engineering manager and is currently Project manager.

Iago Bojczuk is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University. His work explores the material, cultural, economic, and political dimensions of Big Tech infrastructures and the formation of cloud regions in the Global South. He's a Research Assistant for the...

Alexis Carbó Meseguer joined ASN in 2018 after 4 years in Nokia Bell Labs. Since then, he worked in the modeling and characterization of subsea systems.He pioneered the development of an automated technique to reduce the time dedicated to Subsea Open Cable commissioning. In the meantime, he studied ...

Rob Cash Born / Lives - Wolverhampton, UK Age - 54 Title - Operations Manager Summary - 28 years’ experience in the submarine cable handling systems and marine product deployment and retrievals markets.  Was proud to be part of the Dowty & Parkburn Controls team that...

Dr Mike Clare is a Principal Researcher in Ocean Biogeoscience at the National Oceanography Centre, UK. His research focuses on deep sea processes, the influence of climate change and human activities on the seafloor, and assessing risks to seafloor infrastructure. He has published >70 papers in ...

René oversees the global business development of services provided by Fugro to the subsea cable industry such as desktop studies and route surveys. René has been an employee of Fugro for over 20 years. In 2009 he became responsible for managing Fugro Hydrographic Services in Asia Pacific. In this...

Paul DavisonSMDDeputy CEOSMD is the market leader, and a proudly independent design and manufacturing authority, for subsea vehicles in submarine telecoms, offshore wind, oil & gas, survey and mineral extraction markets.Paul joined SMD in 1994 after completing engineering degrees at Newcastle...

Simone Donadello was born in Mantova, Italy, in 1987. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively, discussing an experimental thesis on quantum systems and ultracold atomic gases. He joined Politecnico di...

ZHANG Donghai, HMN Technologies, Business Development Director.More than 18 years of experience in telecommunication domain, both in terrestrial network and submarine network, familiar with Ethernet, transmission network and IP. Focused on submarine cable industry from 2008, have significant...

Sumudu Edirisinghe obtained BEng in Electronic Systems Engineering in 1997 and PhD in 2002 from the University of Essex, UK. Over the next 20 years he has been working as an R&D and a design Engineer for several telecommunication equipment manufactures in Europe and USA.He holds several US...

Zhang Fang, Senior Network Solution Manager of HMN Technologies, Co Ltd. She joined HMN Tech and is engaged in the network planning and design of marine cable system since 2011. She has rich experience in the end-to-end process of marine cable business, network system design and marine cable...

James Francis is a Cable Route Engineer within Alcatel Submarine Network’s Marine Operations Department in Greenwich, London. He joined ASN four years ago after previously working as a surveyor, and a small vessel skipper on the River Thames. James’ role oversees the planning, surveying, and marine ...

Tony started work at BT's Research labs investigating cable problems and then moved to Alcatel Australia, becoming involved in testing and commissioning subsea systems. A move to Bell Labs gave him experience in terminal design and troubleshooting, after which he went to Alcatel Submarine...

Chongyao GAOHardware Engineer of HMN Technologies Co., Ltd.Joined HMN in 2019, and had been engaged in the research and development of submarine cable communication system related products.Participated in the development and maintenance of multiple projects such as COTDR and OPEN CBALE...

Dr. Tommy Geisler, is Lead Engineer at OFS Fitel Denmark ApS.He has a PhD degree from the Technical University of Denmark. He has worked at OFS for more than 23 years and has been responsible for both the development and production of various transmission, submarine, dispersion compensating and...

Dr. Lorraine Gray is Director of Permitting at Pioneer Consulting. With 25 years in marine management, Dr. Gray is an early pioneer of Marine Spatial Planning. She has carried out projects on zoning cables, renewables and aquaculture for Scottish and English governments, has written guidance on...

Lijun Hao is a structural and Materials Engineer, Joining the Product and Solution HMN Technologies Co., Ltd.in 2014.He has been engaged in product structure development, material selection and certification of wet plant product.

Tadafumi Hirose is an engineer in the OCC's Submarine Systems Division Engineering Department. He joined OCC's Submarine Systems Division in 2013.He received his B.S. from Kyushu University in 2013.His responsibilities is cable Department.

Dr. Alan Hollander is Infinera's Sr. Director Subsea Systems Engineering.Based in Amsterdam, Alan leads the global subsea engineering team responsible for network upgrade solutions. Acting as a key technical advisor both externally and internally, Alan has been involved with some of the largest ...

Zhao Hongcai (Andy Zhao), Network Solution Manager of HMN Technologies, Co Ltd. He joined HMN Tech and is engaged in the network planning and design of marine cable systems since 2015. He has rich experience in the end-to-end process of the marine cable business, network system design, and marine...

Huiling Kang, Jiangsu Hengtong Marine Cable Systems CO.,LTD, R&D engineer. Engaged in the research and development and testing of the submarine optical cables for about 6 years. Also, has 3 years of experience in submarine cable installation. Familiar with the testing and verification methods...

Mr. Stephen Lentz is Chief Technology Officer of Subsea Data Systems (SDS).  He is previously Director of Network Development at Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI) where he supported commercial telecommunications, oil & gas, and scientific cable system projects.  Prior to joining OSI, Mr. Lentz  was ...

Liang Chen, worked for HMN tech co.,LTD, the position is marine installation supervisor, seven years experience in optic cable laying and maintenance.

Jiang Lin was born in Hube province, China, in 1986. He received the master’s degree in photoelectric information engineering from Huazhong University of Science&Technology in 2011. In 2013 He joined in Huawei Marine Networks, which has changed name to HMN Technologies in 2021, and has been...

Dr. Nate Lindsey holds a PhD in Earth and Planetary Science from the University of California, Berkeley in the subject of distributed fiber-optic seismology, and a MSc from the University of Edinburgh in geophysics. His work focuses on human-relevant problems such as critical infrastructure...

Maria Ma, Permit Manager of HMN Technologies Co. Ltd

Hui Ma.Route Engineer and DTS & Survey Manager from HMN Technologies Co., Ltd.12 years’ experience in submarine telecommunication market, with extensive experience of route planning, Desk top study and Marine survey and etc.

Scott Mabin is a Chartered Mechanical engineer with over 18 years experience in heavy industry. Scott began his career as an engineer in the power generation sector before moving into developing equipment for offshore and subsea applications. Scott has spent the last 11 years creating bespoke and...

Jeremie Maillet is the VP Marine Operations of Alcatel Submarine Networks since January 2017 and General Manager of ASN Marine since 2015.Jeremie started his seaman career in 1996. He developed broad experience over the years, occupying roles such as Engineer, Chief Officer on ASN’s cable...

Giuseppe Marra is a Principal Research Scientist in the Time and Frequency group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. He has been pioneering ultra-stable interferometric techniques over submarine cables for the detection of earthquakes, ocean currents and other environmental...

MASUDA Daishi (masuda.occ@nec.com) is a manager in the OCC’s Submarine System Plant Engineering Department. His current roles are management of new cable development, optical fiber evaluation and design of cable connection hardware for submarine cable systems. He joined OCC’s Submarine Systems...

Eduardo Mateo received his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 2005 in the field of Integrated Nonlinear Optics. He was a Research Scientist at the CREOL (Orlando, FL) conducting pioneering research in nonlinear fiber communications and digital signal processing. In 2009, he joined NEC Laboratories America...

Dr. Mertz is currently a Fellow in the Advanced Optical Development group at Infinera developing advanced modulation formats, automation software, and fiber sensing solutions for subsea communications. He was awarded OSA’s 2021 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award and holds over 30...

Ronaldo Moidano, affiliated to Blue Marine Telecom– Zmax Blue Ship Group, Project Manager, graduated in Electrical Engineering, Post-graduated in Material Engineering, MBAs in Business Administration and Company Finances. 30 + years of experience working at Brazilian and multinational...

Jan Petter Morten is working as Principal Engineer in the R&D department the ASN Norway office in Trondheim. The focus for his work is on DAS applications and signal processing. He received a PhD in theoretical physics in 2008 from NTNU, Norway.  He has experience in geophysical...

Kohei Nakamura received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from the Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2013 and joined NEC Corporation the same year. He is currently an Engineer with Submarine Network Division, where he is responsible for high-capacity submarine...

Sho Nakayama is an engineer in the OCC's Submarine Systems Division Engineering Department.He joined OCC's Submarine Systems Division in 2018.He received his M.S. from Hokkaido University in 2018.

Heiner Ottersberg is NSW Director Engineering of Prysmian Group. Heiner took a Diploma from the University of Emden in Electrical Engineering specializing in Telecom. Since 2001 Heiner has worked at Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) took successively more senior roles in cable design, system...

Serguei Papernyi is a Senior Research Scientist with MPB Communications Inc. Serguei received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from Vavilov State Optical Institute in 1984.  His work in Vavilov, was related to high-peak-power Nd lasers, pulse compression and optical phase conjugation using...

Oli Pope is the Founder of Route Position, a marine consultancy specialising in subsea cable landing site assessment, Desktop Study (DTS), marine route planning and risk mitigation. Oli is driving Autonomous implementation in the subsea cable sector and undertakes Business Development consultancy...

Xiaoyong Qin, HMN Technologies Co., Ltd, system engineer, the main research field is Open Cable Access Equipment (OCAE).

Madanagopal Ramachandran received the B.E.degree in computer science and engineeringfrom Bharathiar University, Coimbatore,India, in 2002 and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in computer science and engineeringfrom the Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, India, in 2008 and 2020. He iscurrently a Senior ...

Alan Rand, Managing Director of AMSS Global Modular Solutions, is a senior executive with more than 30 years of successful modular experience. Alan has demonstrated expertise in all aspects of mission critical modular construction management for multi-million-dollar projects. Focused areas of...

Gustavo RegnicoliHead of Business Development at R&GAlways associated to optical networks and submarine dry plant, have operational management roles at Nortel Networks and Infinera, where played Regional Director role for LATAM.Understanding all operational perspectives, leading R&G...

My name is Daniel Saathoff, 39 or 40 years old. Depending on the certain date of my oral presentation.After many years of military service,I graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. During the studies, I came into contact with the submarine cable industry at Norddeutche Seekabelwerke...

Weiwei Shen, R&D manager of Jiangsu Hengtong Marine Cable Systems CO.,LTD. He received the Master degree in Material Engineering and in membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. His research interests include the the research and development of submarine optical cables and...

This is Xianpu Su, and I have worked in HMN Technologies for over 12 years. As the project technical manager, I'm responsible for the network design, and implementation of technical solution during the delivery process of the submarine cable system. Besides of the experience of several...

Anjali Sugadev is the Law and Policy Lead for the Sustainable Subsea Networks project of the SubOptic Foundation. Anjali is also a consultant specializing in the policy challenges faced by subsea cable systems. She is a recipient of 2015 Rhodes Academy Submarine Cables Writing Award and has...

Ryota SuganumaJoined Kokusai Cable Ship Co., Ltd. in 2009Boarding a cable ship as a cable engineer.Also engaged in construction as a UJ Jointer and ROV operator.Also active as a project member to build a new cable ship.Manages construction projects for telecommunications cables now.

Hitoshi Takeshita received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and information from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1993 and 1995 and his Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from the University of Nagoya, Japan in 2019. In 1995, he joined NEC...

David Tossell graduated from the Danish Maritime University in Svendborg in 1984 as Master Mariner and served as officer in specialised vessels including salvage vessels before joining the Danish Cableship fleet.David has served as Captain in the ASN fleet up until 2007. With his transition to...

Pierre is passionate about tackling complex issues in a multi-disciplinary environment and he gets great satisfaction out of working with a team of experts to do what no one could have done on their own.   Submarine cable systems, with its multiple technical disciplines, international...

Siddharth Varughese is a Principal Optical Engineer with Infinera Corporation’s subsea division. He is an experienced researcher and development engineer specializing in performance analysis for optical communication systems. In his current role, he is responsible for designing and conducting field ...

Dave Walters has 51 years of experience in cable transmission systems. As a Cambridge University physics graduate, he worked on the development of an electrical analogue transatlantic cable system and then took part in its marine installation in 1973. He later worked for 17 years at the STL...

Stuart WilsonRoute Engineering and Survey ManagerOceanIQ (part of the Global Marine Group)Stuart joined the Global Marine Group, a leading worldwide submarine cable installation and maintenance provider, almost 25 years ago. Following other roles across the business including managing the Group’s...

Mr. Xiaolong Zhang, holds a PH. D, is a senior route engineer in HMN Tech with over 20 years’ experience relating to the submarine cable industry. He has mainly engaged in desktop study, cable routing and protection design, marine survey management, burial assessment report complied and cable...

Fatih Yaman received his Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from The Institute of Optics at University of Rochester in 2006. After postdoctoral research at CREOL, he joined NEC Laboratories of America in 2010 as a research staff member.  His current research interests include performance optimization of...

Yang Qizheng, who obtained the B.E. from Ocean University of China and M.S. degrees from The First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, works as Cable Route Engineer in HMN Technologies Co., Ltd. He owns 9 years' working experiences in the submarine...

Zhenfei Qi, Working in HMN Technologies Co., Ltd, my country in Tianjin, China.  hardware engineer and 5 years working experience in submarine cable system design, participated in the development project of Branch Unit and Repeater. Leading the technical research of 18kV high-voltage switching...

Benyuan Zhu is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at OFS Laboratories, where he currently focuses on DWDM transmission, new fibres and amplifier technologies development. He joined Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, NJ USA as an MTS in 1999, then became MTS at OFS Labs...

Laurent Campagne is a Senior Consultant at AQEST, a French consultancy company created more than 10 years ago and specialized since its creation in Telecommunication Submarine Networks. AQEST provides its experience and expertise for all types of activities related to optical submarine cables from...

Takemi Hasegawa is an R&D manager at Optical Communications Laboratory, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (SEI). He is in charge of development of optical fibers for submarine transmission including novel multi-core fibers, in addition to optical fibers for components. He joined SEI in...

Gang He received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from Laval University, Canada, in 1995. He is currently principal research scientist in EXFO’s R&D department. His main research interests include advanced optical design, innovative spectral characterization methods, guided wave behavior and T&M ...

JOHN HEDGPETH is Worldwide Applications Engineering Manager at Corning, supporting optical fiber products, inclusive of submarine optical fiber. John has held several positions during his 10-year tenure at Corning, including manufacturing support, quality management and product line management for...

Bruce M. HoweResearch Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaDr. Howe leads the Joint Task Force (JTF) SMART Cable initiative, (Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications) to incorporate sensors into the global submarine telecommunication cable system for climate, ocean circulation and...

Michael Hubbard has worked in the field of high-capacity fiber optic telecommunications since 1998.  He has held various roles covering the physics of optical propagation, digital client HW architecture, coherent optical terminal development for subsea telecommunications, and next generation...

Venkat is the Director of Engineering Software at Makai Ocean Engineering. In addition to overseeing the activities of the commercial submarine cable group, he is also involved with Makai’s R&D work in seafloor classification, object detection, dynamics path planning, etc. Makai’s cable group...

Sergejs Makovejs is a Senior Commercial Technology Associate at Corning with global strategic responsibility for development direction of long-haul and submarine fibers. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCL and an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School. He has authored >50...

Maurizio joined Makai in 2014 as a Physicist in the Subsea Cable Software group. He attended Rutgers University, where he received his Bachelors of Science degree in Physics.Maurizio supports the technical aspects of Makai's software development, as well as the product’s business development...

Andy is responsible for marine engineering and planning of submarine cable systems at Meta, and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Submarine Cable Protection Committee.  Prior to joining Meta in 2016 Andy spent a decade with Verizon and working on submarine cable...

Andrew Robinson is Director of System Engineering at Xtera. After graduating from Durham University with BSc (Hons) in Applied Physics, he joined Standard Telecommunications Ltd. Harlow, in the Optical Systems group responsible for supporting STC's submarine system business.  He continued to...

Dr. Igor Stouklov, a director of OFP Ltd,  has a number of advanced degrees in Physics, Optics, and Engineering from some of the world’s best technical schools and over 35 years of experience. He has co-founded 4 successful start-ups and has worked for several large public companies, with...

Zhongwen Zhan, Professor of Geophysics at the Seismological Laboratory of California Institute of Technology.