Omaro Gonem, a staff member of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Centre of Excellence, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Optical Communications. Dr. Gonem began his PhD studies in 2020 and successfully completed the programme with a thesis entitled “Cost-effective Solutions Enabling Seamlessly Converged Fibre-Wireless Access Networks for 6G and Beyond”.
Dr. Gonem’s research addresses key challenges in next-generation communication systems by proposing and experimentally verifying cost-effective technical solutions that enable flexible, dynamically reconfigurable, and ultra-low latency signal transmission. This work is essential for bridging the gap between fibre and wireless domains in future 6G access networks.
Dr. Gonem’s research was supervised by two prominent experts in optical communications, Dr. Roger Giddings and Professor Jianming Tang, and examined by two world-leading professors from the University of Cambridge and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. During his PhD, Dr. Gonem contributed to producing four high-quality journal papers and six international conference proceedings with cutting-edge experimental demonstrations conducted using the DSP Centre’s advanced lab facilities.
Before his PhD, Dr. Gonem completed an MSc in Broadband and Optical Communications at Bangor University during 2017–2018 as a Chevening Scholar. In 2020, he joined the DSP Centre of Excellence as a Research Project Support Officer, where he received sponsorship from the DSP Centre to pursue his PhD research.
We wish Dr. Gonem all the best with his career and future success.