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Online Seminar | Doing hardware research in a software company
06 May 2020, 11:30 am–12:30 pm
In the second of our online seminars, Dr Benn Thomsen will talk about his experience undertaking hardware research at Microsoft, a company better known for software.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students | Invitation Only
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Robert Thompson – Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Location
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Doing hardware research in a software company
Within this seminar, Dr Thomsen (previously reader in UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering) will talk about the challenges and benefits of doing research into new hardware and systems for the cloud in a company that is better known for its expertise in software.
ICCS Chair
This session will be chaired by Professor Izzat Darwazeh, Director of the Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Attending the seminar
The Seminar will be held on the Zoom platform. Details of how to access Zoom can be found on their website.
Join the seminar by clicking on this link.
The meeting ID is: 988 1247 3148
Meeting Password: Will be emailed to ICCS members, or can be requested by email.
About the Speaker
Dr Benn Thomsen
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft research
Benn Thomsen joined Microsoft Research in 2017 where he works on optical systems for networking and storage in next generation cloud computing systems.
Before joining Microsoft he was a reader in Optical Communications at UCL from 2004-2017. His research was in physical layer implementation of dynamic optical networks and optical transmission systems including: digital signal processing for burst mode optical receivers, optical networking for data centres and the use of MIMO techniques for transmission over multimode optical fibres.
More about Dr Benn Thomsen