Politecnico di Milano

Born in Milan, Italy, in 1969. He received his Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1995 and his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the same university in 2000. From 1995 until February 2006 he has been researcher at CoreCom (research consortium supported by Pirelli and Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy), where he achieved the position of Head of the Optical Networking Laboratory. On March 2006 he joined the Dipartment of Elettronics and Information at Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Professor. He continues to cooperate with CoreCom on specific projects. From academic year 2004/2005 he teaches the course “Telecommunication Networks Basics” for undergraduate students of the School of Information Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He also lectures in more advanced courses within the Telecommunication Engineering Master Program. In 2000 he held a course on “Optical Networks” in a post-Laurea Master for professionals organized by CoreCom. He furthermore kept courses for employees and executives of the companies: Pirelli, Telecom Italia, Italtel. He has participated and participates to several joint research projects with industrial partners (Pirelli, Telecom Italia, Fastweb). He is involved in the IST-FP6 European Projects: MUPBED, NOBEL2, e-Photon/ONe+. He is author or co-author of more than 30 papers published in proceedings of international conferences and more than 15 papers published in international journals on networking and optical networks. He is co-inventor of 6 patents with extensions in various Countries (including Europe and the U.S.). His current main areas of interest are: ASON/GMPLS control plane, semitransparent optical networks, synchronous and bufferless packet switching, carrier-grade Ethernet, optical interconnections and backplane. He is member of the IEEE Communications Society since 1998.

Contacts

Campus: Building 20 - Via Ponzio
Floor: 3
Office: 330
Ph.: 3575
Fax: 3413
E-mail: guido.maier@polimi.it, maier@corecom.it

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Research Area:

• Telecommunications

Research lines:

• Networking