About the speakers
Annunziata Rispoli is HR Manager with extensive international experience in managing HR functions across diverse industries, including tech, logistics, and energy. She holds an Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi and a Master's in Chinese Studies. Currently, she manages HR activities for Huawei's Italy R&D centers, focusing on recruitment, employee engagement, leadership and talent development. She lived in the United States, China and Argentina is fluent in multiple languages, including English, Chinese, and Spanish.
Damiano Badini received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2015. He worked as real-time processing engineer at Nokia Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA in 2016 and then joined the 5G Research Team of Huawei Technologies, Milan, Italy in 2017. He is now in charge of the new research activities merging Wireless Communications with Photonics Technologies.
Abstract
After a brief introduction on Huawei’s Research and Development and its opportunities for students, the seminar will illustrate the structure and challenges of modern cellular networks, highlighting the current bottlenecks in the evolution toward 6G. In this context, photonics technologies are considered as a possible solution not only for the transport network but also, for the first time, for the radio access network.