Polina Bayvel

Polina Bayvel

Polina Bayvel at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
Born Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel
Fields
Thesis Stimulated Brillouin scattering in single mode optical fibre ring resonators (1990)
Notable awards
Children Two
Website
www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/staff/academic/pbayvel

Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel CBE FRS FREng FInstP (Russian: Полина Леопольдовна Байвель; born c. 1968) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently a professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth multiwavelength optical networking.[2][5]

Education

Bayvel was born and grew up in Kharkov / Kharkiv, and Leningrad until 1978.[6] She was educated at University College London where she was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1986 followed by a PhD in 1990.[7] In 1990, she was awarded a Royal Society Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship in the Fibre Optics Laboratory at the General Physics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow.[8]

Research

Bayvel's research has focused on maximising the speed and capacity of optical fibre communication systems, and the fundamental studies of capacity-limiting optical nonlinearities and their mitigation.[2][9][10][11]

She was one of the first to show the feasibility of using the wavelength domain for routing in optical networks over a range of distance- and time-scales. She has established the applicability of these new optical network architecture concepts, which have been widely implemented in commercial systems and networks. These systems and networks underpin the Internet, and the digital communications infrastructure - and are essential for its growth.[2] Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[12]

Awards and honours

Bayvel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonic Society Engineering Achievement Award in 2013. In 2014 she delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture[13] and in 2015 was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Colin Campbell Mitchell Award.[2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[2]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to engineering.[14]

Personal life

She has two children with Anatoly Zayats, who is a Professor of Physics at King's College London.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Polina Bayvel's publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anon (2016). "Professor Polina Bayvel FREng FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived September 25, 2015)
  3. ↑ "IEEE Photonics Society 2010 Fellows". IEEE Photonics Society. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Member news: July 2014". Institute of Physics.
  5. ↑ "Prof Polina Bayvel". London: ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30.
  6. ↑ ""И 20 лет, и 30 лет — живым не верится, что живы…" - Общество". Gazetya Vremya (in Russian). 8 July 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Bayvel, Polina Leopoldovna (1990). Stimulated Brillouin scattering in single mode optical fibre ring resonators (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 940321697.
  8. ↑ Thompson, J. M. T. Visions of the Future: Physics and Electronics. Cambridge University Press. p. 208. ISBN 9780521805384. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  9. ↑ Duser, M.; Bayvel, P. (2002). "Analysis of a dynamically wavelength-routed optical burst switched network architecture". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 20 (4): 574–585. doi:10.1109/50.996576.
  10. ↑ Savory, Seb J.; Gavioli, Giancarlo; Killey, Robert I.; Bayvel, Polina (2007). "Electronic compensation of chromatic dispersion using a digital coherent receiver". Optics Express. 15 (5): 2120. doi:10.1364/OE.15.002120.
  11. ↑ Baroni, S.; Bayvel, P. (1997). "Wavelength requirements in arbitrarily connected wavelength-routed optical networks". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 15 (2): 242–251. doi:10.1109/50.554330.
  12. ↑ "Professor Polina Bayvel". Swindon: epsrc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30.
  13. ↑ Communicating with Light: Clifford Paterson Lecture by Professor Polina Bayvel FREng on YouTube
  14. ↑ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N8.
  15. ↑ "Parent-Carer Scientist: Polina Bayvel". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30.


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