Ripalta Stabile

Ripalta (Patty) Stabile is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her research focuses on large-scale photonic integrated circuits using Indium Phosphide (InP) semiconductor optical amplifiers for next-generation optical networks and brain-inspired optical computing architectures.

• Education: MSc (with honors) in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari (2004), PhD in Nanoscience from National Nanotechnology Laboratory (2008)
• Academic Timeline: Postdoctoral Researcher (2009), Assistant Professor (2014), Associate Professor (current)

Stabile's work explores photonic computing systems through:

• Cointegration of electronics and photonics
• Exploitation of optical parallelism
• Brain-inspired computational architectures
• Low-power high-speed transceiver modules
• High-capacity optical switching systems
• Advanced photonic materials research

Scientific contributions include:

• 2016 Early Career Women in Photonics – Special Recognition
• IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter board member (2016-present)
• Author/co-author of >100 publications in leading photonics conferences and journals

Active in international collaborations with:

• University of Cambridge (2011)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018)
• Projects: Zwaartekracht Networks ECO, PASSION (2017-2021)