Stefano Bottacchi currently works as a Principal Scientist on multi-Terabit optical transmission system and photonic components for Lumentum, USA. He has previously worked for several leading telecom companies and research organizations, including Polytechnic of Milan, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Imperial College, London, MACOM Technologies, USA, and Huawei Research Center, Munich, DE. Dr. Bottacchi has published three books in the field of Optical Communication Engineering and one book on the Theory and Modeling of Cylindrical Nanostructures for High-Resolution Coverage Spectroscopy. He authored many OSA peer-reviewed articles. He is a senior member of IEEE and OSA Photonic Society, USA.