Academic position: | Researcher |
Joining date: | 01-10-2007 |
Roles in IT: | Researcher |
Thematic Line: | Optics and Photonics |
Group: | Optical Sensors and Integrated Photonics - Av |
Miguel Drummond was born in Porto, Portugal in 1984. He graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Aveiro in 2007. He concluded his PhD in photonic devices for optical and RF signal processing at the same University in 2011. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as an R&D engineer first at Nokia Siemens Networks, and then at Coriant, which are now Infinera.
Since September of 2014 he has been a research scientist at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro. He has been the group leader of the research cluster Optical Components and Subsystems since 2021. In Nokia Siemens Networks – Optical Networks (now Infinera) he specialized in digital signal processing for high bit rate coherent optical transceivers. He worked on the design, validation and implementation of many different algorithms comprising the receive-side DSP, leading to the invention of a data-aided chromatic dispersion estimation method. He also represented the company in the FP7 European project GALACTICO. He revised and managed the entire patent portfolio of the company.
Since September 2014, Miguel Drummond has been a Research Scientist at Instituto de Telecomunicações. Until July 2017, he was the Technical Coordinator of FP7 European project BEACON, which culminated in a state-of-the-art photonic beamformer for a receive-side phased array antenna. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Principal Investigator of project SOFTLI, funded by Bosch Car Multimedia, which culminated in five international patent applications covering automotive LiDAR waveforms, sampling techniques and estimation methods. Since 2022, he has been the Photonic System Manager in project PHOAM, funded by ESA, which aims to build a flat-panel phased array antenna for satellite communications.
His main research interests are in beamforming for large-scale phased-array antennas, automotive LiDAR sensors, and machine learning models for autonomous driving.
Acronym | Name | Funding Agency | Start date | Ending date |
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BEACON | ScalaBle & Low-Power Microwave Photonics for FlexiblE, TerAbit Telecom Payloads & High-speed Coherent Inter-satellite LiNks | EU/FP7 | 01-02-2014 | 01-02-2017 |
CONTACT | Components and techniques for high capacity optical communications | FCT/PTDC | 01-01-2011 | 01-12-2012 |
FOPE-ComSens | Helically Twisted Polymer Optical Fibres for High Capacity Short Range Communications and Wearable Flexible Smart Sensors | FCT | 29-03-2021 | 28-09-2024 |
HiPOF | Paving the way for high capacity POF based communication systems | FCT/PTDC | 01-01-2016 | 01-07-2018 |
MCTechs | Multicore fibers technologies for high-capacity Optical Networks | FCT/POCI | 14-05-2018 | 14-10-2021 |
nodeSipher | Nonlinear modeling of silicon photonics electro-optic modulators | IT/LA | 01-01-2017 | 01-12-2018 |
PHOAM | Photonic Assisted Multibeam Phased Array Antenna | ESA | 01-04-2022 | 30-06-2024 |
PIfotoComSat | Sistema de Apoio à Investigação Cientifica e Tecnológica (SAICT) Nr. 046537 - PIfotoComSat: IP portfolio on photonic technology applied to satellite communication systems | P2020 | 22-12-2019 | 21-12-2021 |
PIfotoSatCom | Portefólio de PI em tecnologia fotónica aplicada a sistemas de comunicação via satélite | P2020 | 01-10-2016 | 01-09-2018 |
RETIOT | Utilização de Tecnologias de Reflectometría no melhoramento do futuro Internet das Coisas e Sistemas Ciber-Físicos | P2020 | 09-01-2017 | 30-06-2021 |
SOFTLI | Software defined LIDAR | Bosch | 01-12-2018 | 01-12-2021 |