Born in Southern Italy (Puglie), Domenico DiMola received his Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and post doctorate from Polytechnic of Turin-Italy. In 2008, Domenico led the Alcatel-Lucent high-speed engineering team that develop the first single carrier 100G QPSK Coherent solution based on 65nm CMOS integrated DSP-ASIC. Currently, he is VP of Engineering in Juniper’s Chief Development Office and leads the Packet-Optical platform team. He has been a keynote speaker at ECIO, ECOC, OFC and MWC and holds several fundamental patents in technologies, components and systems for DWDM networks. Domenico lives in California with his family and 2 dogs (Riri and Abby).