Giovanni Benincá de Farias

Has obtained his MSc and PhD degree from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP), France, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. During his PhD, he was engaged as a researcher in the CEA-Leti, Grenoble, France, from 2010 to 2013. During this period, its research interests were advanced modulation formats for optical communication, digital processing and silicon photonics transmitters. He is currently a senior researcher in the Fundação CPqD, Brazil, where he is engaged in the design and characterization of integrated photonics components for next-generation 400G and 1Tb optical comunications. He is also manager of the integrated photonics team in CPqD, coordinating the acitivites, defining the technological roadmap and staff training. He is engaged as technical coordinator of the project "Integrated device technology for submarine amplification and transmission", funded by BNDES, PadTec and executed by CPqD. He acts actively on technological development to the industry, having two main technological transfers ongoing, namely "Integrated photonic circuit and packaging for submarine optical amplifier" and "Ultra-compact and narrow linewdith tunable external-cavity laser". He has more than 15 papers in journals and major conferences in optical communications, as well as 7 patents in the field of optical communications. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)