Gabriella Bosco

Gabriella Bosco is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. She specializes in optical communication systems, focusing on fiber optics transmission, digital signal processing (DSP), and nonlinear effects mitigation. Her roles include Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology and Board member of the IEEE Photonics Society. She earned her Telecommunication Engineering degree (1998) and PhD (2002) from Politecnico di Torino.

Research Interests:

• Performance analysis and design of optical transmission systems
• Application of DSP in optical links
• Fiber-optic sensor networks and anomaly detection
• Nonlinear interference mitigation techniques

Awards:

• OSA Fellow (2017)
• IEEE Fellow (2019)
• 2014 & 2015 Best Paper Award in Journal of Lightwave Technology

Professional Service:

• Program Chair/General Chair of OFC 2017-2019
• Editorial roles in major photonics journals
• EU-funded projects: E-Photon/One, Nobel, BONE

Labs & Groups: Leading the OptCom Group, a pioneer in optical communications research since 2000. Collaborates with industry leaders including Huawei and Cisco.