Liam Barry's WWW Page
Contact Information :
School of Electronic Engineering
Dublin City
University
Dublin 9
Ireland.
email
:
liam.barry@dcu.ie
Tel. : +353 1 700-5431
Fax : +353 1 700-5508
Biography
Liam Barry received his BE
(Electronic Engineering) and MEngSc (Optical
Communications) degrees from University College
Dublin in 1991 and 1993 respectively. From February 1993 until January 1996
he was employed as a Research Engineer in the Optical Systems Department of
France Telecom's Research Laboratories (now known as Orange Labs) in Lannion, France. During this period his
research involved the use of ultra short optical pulses in high capacity
optical networks, and as a result of this work he obtained his PhD Degree from
the University of Rennes in France.
In February 1996 he joined the Applied Optics Centre in Auckland University, New Zealand, as a
Research Fellow. His work in New
Zealand was mainly concerned with optical
pulse generation and measurement, and the use of optical nonlinearities for
high speed all-optical switching in fibre networks.
In March 1998 he took up a lecturing position in the School of Electronic Engineering at
Dublin City University, and established the Radio and Optical Communications
Laboratory , which is part of The Rince
Institute. From April 2006 until February 2010 he served as Director of The
Rince Institute, an interdisciplinary research centre with over 100 researchers. He is currently an Associate Professor in the
School of Electronic Engineering, a Principal Investigator for Science Foundation
Ireland, Director of the Radio and Optical Communications Laboratory, and
Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing. His
teaching responsibilities currently include a combined 4th year and Masters course on Optical Communication Systems Design. His main
research interests are; all-optical signal processing, optical pulse generation
and characterization, hybrid radio/fibre
communication systems, wavelength tunable lasers for reconfigurable optical
networks, and optical performance monitoring. He has published over 130
articles in internationally peer reviewed journals, 180 papers in international
peer reviewed conferences, and holds 9 patents in the area of optoelectronics.
He has been a TPC member for the European Conference on Optical Communications
(ECOC) since 2004, and a TPC member for the Optical Fibre
Communication Conference (OFC) from 2007 to 2010, serving as Chair of the
Optoelectronic Devices sub-committee for OFC 2010.
Funded
Research Projects
Published
Research
Optical Communications
Laboratory
Postgraduate
Research Students
Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Teaching