Nikola Alic

Nikola Alic received a B.S. degree in optoelectronics from the Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia in 1998. After graduation, he served as a Junior Scientist at the “Vinca” Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia, where he worked on solitonic pulse compression in nonlinear fiber arrays. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California San Diego, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001 and 2006, respectively, for pioneering work on the role of electronic equalization in optical communications. Overseeing the Circuits and Photonics Labs, he has research interests including equalization and coding theory in optical communications; high-speed transmission, detection theory, fiber optic parametric amplifiers and all-optical signal processing. He has been a co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal publications and has served on Technical Program Committees of OFC, FiO, PhotSoc, as well as IEEE Topical Meetings.

Email: nalic@ucsd.edu