Dr. Oskars Ozolins is a Senior Scientist and Technical Lead at the Kista High-speed Transmission Lab (Kista HST-Lab), RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (former ACREO) under Swedish Research Council starting grant project "Photonic-assisted signal processing techniques (PHASE)". He is also appointed as Affiliated Faculty on Optical Communication at Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of digital and photonic-assisted signal processing techniques, high-speed short-reach communications and devices, optical and photonic-wireless interconnects, and single photon quantum communication. In his professional career Dr. Ozolins has been guest researcher at III-V Lab (Nokia Bell Labs and Thales, France), Keysight Technologies (Böblingen Germany), DTU Fotonik (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), IDLab (Ghent University – imec, Belgium), OFO (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), and FOTON laboratory (University of Rennes 1, France). He is author of around 188 international journal publications, conference contributions, invited talks/tutorials/keynote/lecture, patents and book chapters (h index 17, citations 972). He has more than 12 years of experience in supervising students. He has supervised 36 bachelor students, 22 master students, 4 PhD students (2 completed) and 2 postdocs.