Ricard Vilalta
Professor Collaborator
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRicard Vilalta is a telecommunications engineer and research leader with 11+ years driving optical networking innovation, currently serving as Research Director at CTTC and Chair of ETSI OSG TeraFlowSDN. He holds a PhD from UPC and combines deep protocol- and kernel-level experience (GMPLS, MPLS-TP, OpenFlow) with hands-on software development in C/C++ and network automation. Ricard has led major EU and national research projects (OFELIA, STRAUSS, STRONGEST, COMBO) and authored over 100 papers and standards contributions, shaping Optical Network Virtualization and SDN practice. He also teaches network research and automation at UOC, coordinates international relations for Telecos.cat, and brings uncommon cross-disciplinary training in audiovisual communication and innovation management. Colleagues know him for translating low-level networking expertise into practical, standards-driven solutions that bridge academia, industry and open standards bodies.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Primary and Secondary Education, Primary and Secondary Education at La Salle GironaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaB2 2009, B2 2009 at Goethe InstitutMaster Innovation Business Management, Master Innovation Business Management at Universitat de Barcelona
English, Spanish, Catalan, German
Github Skills (29)
siemens10
tapi10
opc10
snmp10
altium-designer10
transport10
lte10
4g10
netmiko10
api10
network-automation10
netconf10
yang10
eagle10
rdma9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rvilalta/Snowmass-ONFOpenTransport
Jun 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:38 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 3 months
apitransport-apiapi-projecttransportopen-transport
rvilalta/OFC_SC472
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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