
Full Professor
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET)
- Member of of the Information Technology Strategies Commission
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Vittorio Curri received his Laurea degree cum laude in Electrical Engineering and his PhD in Optical Communications from the Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Turin, Italy, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He currently holds the position of Full Professor in Optical Communications and Networking and is a Founder Member of the OptCom Group and PhotonLab at PoliTo. He has also served as a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University and UCSB. Prof. Curri is an integral part of the team responsible for developing transmission models of lightpaths as Gaussian Noise channels. He is a strong advocate for the utilization of multiband transmission in single-mode fibers. His research activities include analyzing the physical layer's impact on networking for planning and control of open and disaggregated optical networks, employing AI techniques. He serves as the Scientific Chair of the GNPy open-source project within the TIP consortium. With over 400 scientific publications to his name, Prof. Curri has an outstanding bibliometric record. He has been actively involved in numerous projects funded by various companies and the European Union, serving as the Principal Investigator. Throughout his career, he has supervised and mentored 25 PhD students and several post-doctoral researchers. Additionally, he has served as a Guest Editor for Special Issues in the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) and the Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT). He holds memberships in Technical Program Committees (TPCs) of conferences such as ICTON, NetSoft, ANTS, APC-Networks, and ACP. Dr. Curri has also been invited as a keynote and tutorial speaker at major IEEE and OPTICA conferences.
Curriculum
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Research topics
- AI&ML assisted low-energy optical network control
- Environmental sensing from the optical network telemetry
- Modeling of WDM propagation using dual polarization WDM coherent optical tranmission technologies
- Multi-band optical networks
- Optical communications and photonics integration design and simulation
- Physical layer aware networking
- The open source project GNPy for optical network digital twin
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- Concorso "Galileo Feraris" conferred by Comune di Torino, Provincia di Torino, Camera di commercio di Torino, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella di Torino, Italy (2002)
- JLT best paper award conferred by IEEE/OSA, United States (2014)
- JLT best paper award conferred by IEEE/OSA, United States (2015)
- Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca FFABR 2017 conferred by Ministero dell’istruzione, dell’università e della ricerca, Italy (2017)
Non-commercial collaboration agreements
- Accordo attuativo tra Politecnico di torino - Det e Consortium GARR, (2021-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - Telecom Infra Project Inc. - TIP, (2019-) - Responsabile Scientifico
Enti Partecipati
Teaching
PhD Boards
- INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Courses of Study Boards
- Collegio di Ingegneria Elettrica. Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria Elettronica, delle Telecomunicazioni e Fisica (ETF). Componente
- Collegio di Ingegneria Informatica, del Cinema e Meccatronica. Componente
- Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente invitato
Teachings
PhD
- Optical Transport Networks. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
- Optical Transport Networks. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
- Optical Transport Networks. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
- Optical Transport Networks. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
Master of Science
- Project: Applied communication systems and IoT. A.A. 2023/24, COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
- Open Optical Networks. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Open Optical Networks. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Open Optical Networks. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Optical communications and Wireless communications (modulo di Optical communications). A.A. 2021/22, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
- Open Optical Networks. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Optical communications and Wireless communications (modulo di Optical communications). A.A. 2020/21, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
- Open Optical Networks. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Optical communications and Wireless communications (modulo di Optical communications). A.A. 2019/20, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
- Optical communications and Wireless communications (modulo di Optical communications). A.A. 2019/20, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
- Projects and laboratory on photonic networks. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Optical communications and Wireless communications (modulo di Optical communications). A.A. 2018/19, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
- Optical and wireless communications. A.A. 2017/18, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Internet e social media: tecnologie e derive della comunicazione in rete (Grandi Sfide - Digitale). A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Open and virtualized networks. A.A. 2023/24, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Internet e social media: tecnologie e derive della comunicazione in rete (Grandi Sfide - Digitale). A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Open and virtualized networks. A.A. 2022/23, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Internet e social media: tecnologie e derive della comunicazione in rete (Grandi Sfide - Digitale). A.A. 2021/22, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Open and virtualized networks. A.A. 2021/22, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Open and virtualized networks. A.A. 2020/21, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Teoria ed elaborazione dei segnali. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Digital and Connected World. A.A. 2019/20, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Open and virtualized networks. A.A. 2019/20, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Digital and Connected World. A.A. 2018/19, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Teoria ed elaborazione dei segnali. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Digital and Connected World. A.A. 2017/18, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Teoria ed elaborazione dei segnali. A.A. 2017/18, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research groups
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- NESTOR - Next generation high-speed optical networks for metro access (NESTOR) , (2024-2028) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - HE - Excellent Science - MSCA - RESTART - Spoke 1 - RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART” (RESTART) - Spoke 1 , (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
PNRR – Mission 4 - ALLEGRO - Agile uLtra Low EnerGy secuRe netwOrks , (2022-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - HE - Global Challenges - Digital, Industry and Space - TiFOON - Advanced time/frequency comparison and dissemination through optical telecommunication networks , (2019-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - WON - Wideband Optical Networks , (2019-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Excellent Science - Marie Curie - MIE – Mobilità intelligente ecosostenibile , (2014-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Contratto di ricerca tra Politecnico di Torino – DET , Open Fiber S.p.A., SM Optics – SIAE Microlettronica group e Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia per la realizzazione di un sistema di monitoring (Progetto Fiber as a Sensing – FaaS) , (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - “Valutazione, misura dei parametri fisici e sviluppo di algoritmi per il monitoraggio ambientale, strategie e architetture di controllo della rete con framework open-source e analisi/monitoraggio di prestazioni di rete “ , (2023-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - GNPy Extension 2022-2024 , (2022-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Collaborazione con CESNET zspo di Praga, nel campo delle comunicazioni ottiche, sia presso i laboratori dipartimentali sia presso il laboratorio del CESNET a Praga , (2020-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Memoranda of Understanding - Master Service Agreement (MSA) tra Politecnico di Torino(DET) e Telecom Infra Project (“TIP”) , (2018-) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - Convenzione di interesse dipartimentale Amendment al “Master Terms and Conditions for Consulting Services” (Accordo Quadro di collaborazione n. 364/2013) tra Synopsys lnc. (USA) e Politecnico di Torino - DET , (periodo sconosciuto) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - Support-to-development activities for advanced studies in Photonic Integrated Circuits and support for the evolution of Synopsysphotonic design suite - Statement of Work 2022-2023 , (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - “Statistical Analysis of Transmission Optical Reach Impairments (SATORI)” , (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - “Valutazione e misura di parametri fisici per il monitoraggio ambientale, strategie di controllo della rete con framework open-source e analisi di prestazioni di rete” , (2022-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Experiment on Gaussian Models and Fiber sensing , (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - “La validazione sperimentale di modelli di funzionamento di reti ottiche” , (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Participation in expenses for research activity - “Experiment on Gaussian Models “ , (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Amplifiers Models in Optical Networking (AMION) , (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - “Softwarized and Autonomous Multiband Raman Amplification Impairments-optimized - Assessment of limits through experimental tests on the formerly developed algorithm (SAMURAI II) - ESTENSIONE” , (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Proroga del contratto di prestazione di servizi tra Cefriel s.c.a.r.l. e Politecnico di Torino per lo svolgimento di attività connesse al progetto “Independent scientific support and emergent technologies service”. , (2021-2022) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
Commercial contracts for the provision of services - Valutazione delle prestazioni della trasmissione ottica DWDM su reti ottiche trasparenti con possibile compensazione della dispersione cromatica, amplificazione Raman e link bidirezionali , (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - “Softwarized and Autonomous Multiband Raman Amplification Impairments-optimized - Assessment of limits through experimental tests on the formerly developed algorithm (SAMURAI II)” , (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - “Softwarized and Autonomous Multiband Raman Amplification Impairments-optimized (SAMURAI)” ESTENSIONE , (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Model Development Creation - contract proposal n° C68473 – FY21 , (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - Softwarized and Autonomous Multiband Raman Amplification Impairments-optimized (SAMURAI) , (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - GNPy Extension 2020: Flexible and Autonomous GNPy Statement of Work Statement of Work - SOW , (2020-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Estensione SYNOPSYS - 1/11/2019-31/10/2020 - "Development and maintenance of sotware for optical communication system symulation" Rif C65182 , (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - Analisi di effetti trasmissivi in reti pol-mux compensate in dispersione, per applicazioni miste 10G/100G , (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - OOPT-Raman , (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Estensione n.5 - 1/11/2018-31/10/2019 - "Development and maintenance of sotware for optical communication system symulation" Rif C61489 , (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - Analisi di effetti trasmissivi in reti pol-mux compensate in dispersione, per applicazioni miste 10G/100G , (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - AnaLystics for Photonic Networks vla Streaming Telemetry – ALPINIST , (2018-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Estensione n.5 - 1/11/2017-31/10/2018 - "Development and maintenance of sotware for optical communication system symulation" , (2017-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - NGON "Next Generatio optical networks" , (2016-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Safana Al Zoubi. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Mashboob Cheruvakkadu Mohamed. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Gulmina Malik. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Renato Ambrosone. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Hasan Awad. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Riccardo Ballarini. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Andrea Marchisio. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
Modeling, simulation and CAD Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Photonic devices and solar cells Modeling, simulation and CAD Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Photonic devices and solar cells Modeling, simulation and CAD Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Photonic devices and solar cells - Rocco D'Ingillo. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
- Lorenzo Tunesi. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Photonic devices and solar cells Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Photonic devices and solar cells Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Photonic devices and solar cells - Iman Lotfimahyari. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (36th cycle, 2020-in progress)
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Systems, Automation and Control Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Systems, Automation and Control - Muhammad Umar Masood. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (36th cycle, 2020-in progress)
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems - Giacomo Borraccini. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Cognitive and Autonomous Software-Defined Open Optical Networks
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems - Andrea D'Amico. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Analytical Models and Artificial Intelligence for Open and Partially Disaggregated Optical Networks
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems - Bruno Vinicius De Araujo Correia. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Optimization of Launch Power in Optical Line Systems and Design of Optical Networks for Multi-band Transmission
Communication and Computer Networks Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems - Elliot Peter Edward London. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Nonlinear Interference Generation in Wideband and Disaggregated Optical Network Architectures
Communication and Computer Networks - Rasoul Sadeghi Yamchi. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Multi-Band Optical Networks Capacity, Energy, and Techno-Economic Assessment
Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems - Ihtesham Khan. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (34th cycle, 2018-2022)
Thesis: Machine Learning for Multi-Layer Open and Disaggregated Optical Networks
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Optical and Wireless Digital Transmissions Systems
Publications
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- Borraccini, Giacomo; Straullu, Stefano; Giorgetti, Alessio; Ambrosone, Renato; ... (2023)
Experimental Demonstration of Partially Disaggregated Optical Network Control Using the Physical Layer Digital Twin. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, vol. 20, pp. 2343-2355. ISSN 1932-4537
Contributo su Rivista - Masood, Muhammad Umar; Khan, Ihtesham; Tunesi, Lorenzo; Correia, Bruno; Ghillino, ... (2023)
Multiband Photonic Integrated WSS beyond 1Tb/s Data Center Interconnect Technology. In: International Conference on Photonics in Switching (PS), Mantova, Italy, 26-29 September 2023. ISBN: 979-8-3503-2370-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Ambrosone, Renato; Borraccini, Giacomo; D'Amico, Andrea; Straullu, Stefano; Aquilino, ... (2023)
Open Line Controller Architecture in Partially Disaggregated Optical Networks. In: 2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC), Mantova, Italy, 26-29 September 2023, pp. 1-3. ISBN: 979-8-3503-2370-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - D'Ingillo, Rocco; D'Amico, Andrea; Usmani, Fehmida; Borraccini, Giacomo; Straullu, ... (2023)
Machine Learning Aided Control of Ultra-Wideband Indium Phosphide IQ Mach-Zehnder Modulators. In: 2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC), Mantova, Italy, 26-29 September 2023, pp. 1-3. ISBN: 979-8-3503-2370-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Tunesi, Lorenzo; Khan, Ihtesham; Masood, Muhammad Umar; Ghillino, Enrico; Curri, ... (2023)
Design and performance assessment of modular multi-band photonic-integrated WSS. In: OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 31, pp. 36486-36502. ISSN 1094-4087
Contributo su Rivista