Taisir Elgorashi received her PhD degree in optical networking from the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., in 2010. She held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Leeds, from 2010 to 2014, where she focused on the energy efficiency of optical networks investigating the use of renewable energy in core networks, green data centres, distributed cloud computing and network virtualisation. The energy efficiency techniques developed in her postdoctoral research contributed three out of eight carefully chosen core network energy efficiency improvement measures recommended by the GreenTouch consortium, a consortium of 55 leading ICT industry and academic research organisations, for every operator network worldwide. She was a BT Research Fellow in in 2012 studying hybrid wireless optical broadband access networks. Before joining King’s, she was a lecturer in optical networks with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Leeds. She is a Co-I in EPSRC Terabit Bidirectional Multi-user Optical Wireless System (TOWS) for 6G LiFi working with Airbus, BBC, BT, Microsoft, and pureLiFi. 

About

• Awarded the IET 2016 Premium Award for best paper in IET Optoelectronics
• Associate Editor in IET Optoelectronics and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
• Co-chaired multiple times the Green Communication Systems and Networks (GCSN) symposium in the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) flaghip conferences, ICC and GLOBECOM
• Co-chaired the technical program of the IEEE Sustainability through ICT Summit (StlCT) 2019
• Chaired the working group for the IEEE P1929.1 standard - An Architectural Framework for Energy Efficient Conent Distribution
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Research interests

• Optical fibre communication networks
• Optical wireless communication systems
• Energy efficient communication networks
• Network resource optimisation
• Machine learning for communication networks