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Biography

Guido Maier (Senior member IEEE), received his Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1995 and his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the same university in 2000. Until February 2006 he has been researcher at CoreCom (research consortium supported by Pirelli in Milan, Italy), where he achieved the position of Head of the Optical Networking Laboratory. On March 2006 he joined the Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Professor. In 2015 he became Associate Professor. His main areas of interest are: optical network modeling, design and optimization; SDN orchestration and control-plane architectures; SD-WAN and NFV. He is author of more than 150 papers in the area of Networking published in international journals and conference proceedings (h-index 29) and 6 patents. He has been involved in industrial and European research projects, and is currently PI of the project WatchEDGE – NextGeneratioEU funds. In 2016 he co-founded the start-up SWAN networks, spin-off of Politecnico di Milano. He is editor of the journal Optical Switching and Routing, General Chair of DRCN 2020, DRCN 2021, IEEE NetSoft 2022 and IEEE HPSR 2025, and TPC member in many international conferences. He is IEEE Senior Member.

Sebastian Troia (member IEEE) is a Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology (Telecommunications) cum laude from Politecnico di Milano in 2020 and is a partner at SWAN Networks, a Politecnico di Milano spin-off specializing in SDN/SD-WAN orchestration. His research focuses on edge network softwarization and Machine Learning for SDN, SD-WAN, and multi-layer optical/IP networks. He has contributed to several European projects, including H2020 Metro-Haul and NGI Atlantic, and served as an editor for the ITU-T FG-ML5G. He has authored over 70 publications and is active in TPC and organizing committees for major conferences such as IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, NetSoft, and others. He is the founder and co-organizer of the Edge Network Softwarization (ENS) workshop series, now in its 4th edition in conjunction with IEEE NetSoft 2025. In 2025, he received the IEEE ComSoc EMEA Outstanding Young Researcher Award.