Takayuki Kobayashi

Takayuki Kobayashi (Member, IEEE) received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2004, 2006, and 2019, respectively. In 2006, he joined the NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan, where he was engaged in the research on high-speed and high-capacity digital coherent transmission systems. In 2014, he moved to the NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Yokosuka, and was engaged in 5G mobile optical network systems. Since 2016, he moved back to the NTT Network Innovation Laboratories and has been working on high-capacity optical transmission systems. His research interests include long-haul optical transmission systems employing spectrally efficient modulation formats enhanced by digital and optical signal processing. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan. He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member of the Electrical Subsystems’ Category for the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) from 2016 to 2018. He has been a TPC Member of the “Point-to-Point Optical Transmission” Category for the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) since 2018.