Piero Orlandi

Piero Orlandi is an accomplished Senior Chip Designer at Advanced Fiber Resources since January 2023, with a robust background in photonics and semiconductor design. Previously, Piero served as a Senior Photonics Design Engineer at Huawei Technologies Research and Development Belgium NV from January 2019 to December 2022, and as a Photonics Design Engineer at STMicroelectronics from July 2015 to December 2018, focusing on Silicon Photonics products for data-com applications. Earlier experience includes research assistant positions at the University of Pavia and the University of Bologna, where Piero contributed to projects on silicon photonics integrated circuits and modeling of photonic devices. Piero holds a PhD in Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technologies Engineering from Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, along with a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the same institution.