Polina Bayvel

Polina Bayvel
CBE FRS FREng FInstP
Bayvel in 2016
Born (1966-04-14) 14 April 1966 (age 58)[2]
Kharkiv, Ukraine[2]
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
EducationHasmonean High School for Girls[2]
Alma materUniversity College London (BSc, PhD)
ChildrenTwo
AwardsClifford Paterson Lecture (2014)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsNortel
Standard Telephones and Cables
University College London
ThesisStimulated Brillouin scattering in single mode optical fibre ring resonators (1990)
Websitewww.ee.ucl.ac.uk/staff/academic/pbayvel

Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (Russian: Полина Леопольдовна Байвель; born 14 April 1966)[2] is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London.[3] She has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth multiwavelength optical networking.[4][5]

Education and early life

Bayvel was born into a Jewish family,[6] and grew up in Kharkiv and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) until 1978.[7] Her father is the physicist Leopold P. Bayvel, her mother Raisa (Rachel) was a textile/pattern technologist/garment engineer and later published studies in Eastern-European Jewish history.[8]

She was educated in England at Hasmonean High School for Girls[2] and University College London where she was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1986 followed by a PhD in 1990.[9] In 1990, she was awarded a Royal Society Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship in the Fibre Optics Laboratory at the General Physics Institute [ru] of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow.[10]

Research and career

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.[4][11][12][13] She has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth, multi-wavelength optical communication networks.[14]

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.[4] A new project, the Initiate project, aims to test technologies that will make internet connections faster and more secure, which Polina Bayvel indicated will allow them to test them at a national scale.[15] Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[16]

Awards and honours

Bayvel won the Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize in 2002. She was also 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. Bayvel was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science degree in 2014 by the University of South Wales.[17] In 2014 she delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture[18] and in 2015 was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Colin Campbell Mitchell Award.[4] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[4][14] Bayvel was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to engineering.[19][20]

In 2019, Bayvel was elected to the Board of Directors of The Optical Society, serving a three year term 2020-2022.[21]

In 2023, Bayvel was awarded the Royal Society Rumford Medal for pioneering contributions to the fundamental physics and nonlinear optics, enabling the realization of high capacity, broad bandwidth, multi-wavelength, optical communication systems that have underpinned the information technology revolution. She is the first woman to be awarded this medal since the medal was instituted in 1800. [22]

Personal life

Polina Bayvel has two sons.[23][24]

References

  1. ^ Polina Bayvel publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d e Anon (2017). "Bayvel, Prof. Polina". Who's Who. Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U287263. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Six IOP members are recognised in 2017 New Year Honours". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e Anon (2016). "Professor Polina Bayvel FREng FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. 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". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ "Prof Polina Bayvel". London, England: University College London. 2016. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016.
  6. ^ "All The News From Hampsted Garden Suburb Synagogue" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  7. ^ ""И 20 лет, и 30 лет – живым не верится, что живы…" – Общество". Gazetya Vremya (in Russian). 8 July 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  8. ^ Bayvel, Rachel (1 January 2003). "Fifty Years On". Jewish Quarterly. 50 (1): 56–58. doi:10.1080/0449010X.2003.10703810 (inactive 1 November 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  9. ^ Bayvel, Polina Leopoldovna (1990). Stimulated Brillouin scattering in single mode optical fibre ring resonators (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 940321697. Copac 34556809.
  10. ^ Thompson, J.M.T. (2 July 2001). Visions of the Future: Physics and Electronics. Cambridge University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-05218-0538-4. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  11. ^ Duser, M.; Bayvel, P. (2002). "Analysis of a dynamically wavelength-routed optical burst switched network architecture". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 20 (4): 574–585. Bibcode:2002JLwT...20..574D. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.6.1412. doi:10.1109/50.996576.
  12. ^ 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): 2120–6. Bibcode:2007OExpr..15.2120S. doi:10.1364/OE.15.002120. PMID 19532448.
  13. ^ Baroni, S.; Bayvel, P. (1997). "Wavelength requirements in arbitrarily connected wavelength-routed optical networks". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 15 (2): 242–251. Bibcode:1997JLwT...15..242B. doi:10.1109/50.554330.
  14. ^ a b "Three UCL scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society". University College London. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  15. ^ "Internet 'playground' trials new tech to deliver smart cities". Urbana World. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  16. ^ "Professor Polina Bayvel". Swindon: epsrc.ac.uk. 2016. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016.
  17. ^ "Honorary Awards 2014". www.southwales.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  18. ^ Communicating with Light: Clifford Paterson Lecture by Professor Polina Bayvel FREng on YouTube
  19. ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N8.
  20. ^ "Press release: New Year's Honours 2017". Government UK. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  21. ^ "The Optical Society Elects Satoshi Kawata as 2020 Vice President - Novus Light Today". www.novuslight.com. 18 September 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  22. ^ "Rumford Medal". www.royalsociety.org. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  23. ^ "Parent-Carer Scientist: Polina Bayvel". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016.
  24. ^ Polina Bayvel on BBC Radio Four's The Life Scientific in February 2020