Colm Browning (Member, IEEE) received the Honours degree in electronic engineering (BAI) and a minor in mathematics (BA) from the Trinity College Dublin, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in reconfigurable optical systems from Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland, in 2013. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Electronic Engineering, DCU, where he is currently leading a research at the Radio and Optical Communications Laboratory, focusing on converged optical systems for next-generation data-center, access, and mobile networks.