News – Sebastian Troia

Tutorial speaker at the 17th International Conference on Network of the Future

Happy to share that I’ll be delivering a tutorial at the 17th International Conference on Network of the Future on September 29th, 2026! Title: Beyond Connectivity: SD-WAN for Edge Network…

Sebastian Troia 22/08/2026

Award

IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award

I am honored to share that our paper, "Towards Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Optical Networks: The Use Case of Lightpath QoT Estimation," has received the 2026 IEEE Communications Society Charles…

Sebastian Troia 14/07/2026

New publication!

A survey paper on SD-WAN is online!

I’m excited to share my latest survey paper on Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN), now available on IEEE Xplore: 🔗 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11106828/ In this work, we provide a comprehensive overview of…

Sebastian Troia 28/04/2026

Tutorials

Tutorial speaker at the International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks 2026

Happy to share that I’ll be delivering a tutorial at the 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks on July 9th, 2026! Title: Edge Network Intelligence for Distributed AI…

Sebastian Troia 21/04/2026

Tutorials

Tutorial speaker at IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing conference 2026

Happy to share that I’ll be delivering a tutorial at IEEE HPSR 2026 on June 17th, 2026! Title: Network Automation at the Edge with SD-WAN If you're interested in edge…

Sebastian Troia 09/03/2026

Short course

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optical Networks short course at OFC 2026

I’ll be at OFC 2026 delivering a short course on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optical Networks! If you're interested in the intersection of AI and optical communications, I’d love for…

Sebastian Troia 09/03/2026

Workshop

The 5th edition of the Edge Network Softwarization workshop will be co-located with IEEE NetSoft 2026

I am pleased to announce that our workshop has been accepted at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2026. For more information, please visit the ENS website:…

Sebastian Troia 03/03/2026

Award

IEEE ComSoc EMEA Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2025

I have been recognized as IEEE ComSoc EMEA Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2025- IEEE ComSoc- Linkedin

Sebastian Troia 24/11/2025

Workshop

The 4th edition of the Edge Network Softwarization workshop will be co-located with NetSoft 2025

I am pleased to announce that our workshop has been accepted at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2025. For more information, please visit the ENS website:…

Sebastian Troia 09/04/2025

Workshop

The 3rd edition of the Edge Network Softwarization workshop will be co-located with NetSoft 2024

I am pleased to announce that our workshop has been accepted at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2024. For more information, please visit the ENS website:…

Sebastian Troia 16/01/2024