{"id":140590,"date":"2025-05-12T13:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/nicola-andriolli-92656-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:31:48","slug":"nicola-andriolli-92656-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/nicola-andriolli-92656-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Andriolli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Associato &#8211; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell&#8217;Informazione | Tel.: 050 2217623 &#8211; Email: nicola.andriolli@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"92656","unipi-persone-nome":"Nicola","unipi-persone-cognome":"Andriolli","unipi-persone-email":"nicola.andriolli@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Nicola Andriolli received the Laurea degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Pisa in 2002, and the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He was a Visiting Student at DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark and a Guest Researcher at NICT, Tokyo, Japan. In 2007-2019 he was an Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, in 2019-2023 he was with the National Research Council of Italy as a Researcher and then Senior Researcher at the Institute of Electronics, Information Engineering and Telecommunications (CNR-IEIIT).<br \/>\r\nSince 2024 he is an Associate Professor in Telecommunications at the University of Pisa at the Department of Information Engineering.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHe has a background in the design and the performance analysis of optical circuit-switched and packet-switched networks and nodes. His research interests include photonic integration technologies for telecom, datacom and computing applications. He has been working in the field of optical processing and optical interconnection network architectures and scheduling, and more recently has been investigating integrated transceivers, comb sources, and architectures and subsystems for photonic neural networks.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHe has authored more than 200 publications in international journals and conferences, contributed to one IETF RFC, and filed 11 patents. He has been a TPC Member in several international conferences (ICC, GLOBECOM, ECOC, EuCNC, IPR, PSC), he served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access between 2019 and 2022, and he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal.","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"\r\n","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"DII, Via Caruso 16\r\n","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"Ricevimento Studenti: marted\u00ec 10-12 (si prega di inviare una mail al docente qualche giorno prima per verificare il sopraggiungere di eventuali indisponibilit\u00e0 e\/o concordare un appuntamento in altro orario).\r\n\r\nTutoraggio Studenti: marted\u00ec 12-13 (si prega di inviare una mail al docente qualche giorno prima per verificare il sopraggiungere di eventuali indisponibilit\u00e0 e\/o concordare un appuntamento in altro orario).","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2217623","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/nicola_andriolli\/","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=013955","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=013955&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Telecomunicazioni IINF-03\/A","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Associato","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp50305","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1344528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waveguide design for a TFLN platform at 1064\u00a0nm for applications in spacecom and spectroscopy<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Kincaid, Peter Seigo; Pruiti, Natale G.; De Marinis, Lorenzo; Sorel, Marc; Contestabile, Giampiero; Andriolli, Nicola - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1344527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decentralized Security in 5G Networks with Federated Learning and Computer Vision Techniques<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Di Matteo, Andrea; Paolini, Emilio; Andriolli, Nicola; Valcarenghi, Luca - 2025 - 4.2 Abstract in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1325792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Device-Informed Training Strategy for Low-Precision Photonic Neural Networks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Keshari, V. K.; Sahoo, D.; Anand, A. K.; De Marinis, L.; Paolini, E.; Mathew, J.; Andriolli, N.; Contestabile, G.; Gupta, S. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1325791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Design of an Efficient Thin Film Lithium Niobate Modulator at 1064 nm<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Seigo Kincaid, Peter; De Marinis, Lorenzo; Contestabile, Giampiero; Dubois, Florian; Zarebidaki, Homa; Sattari, Hamed; Andriolli, Nicola - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1325790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thin-Film Lithium Niobate at 1064 nm for Telecommunications and Sensing<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Kincaid, P. S.; De Marinis, L.; Contestabile, G.; Pruiti, N.; Sorel, M.; Andriolli, N. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1325789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assessing the Robustness of In-Switch Neural Networks Against Adversarial DDoS Attacks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Zingrillo, G.; Paolini, E.; Andriolli, N.; Paolucci, F.; Cugini, F.; Contestabile, G.; Castoldi, P.; De Marinis, L. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1325788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Differentiable Neural Architecture Search for Photonic-Aware Neural Networks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Paolini, G.; Paolini, E.; Andriolli, N.; Cococcioni, M. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1325672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitigating Noise Effects in Photonic Neural Networks Using Adaptive Quantization<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Paolini, E.; De Marinis, L.; Kincaid, P. S.; Valcarenghi, L.; Contestabile, G.; Roumpos, I.; Moralis-Pegios, M.; Pleros, N.; Andriolli, N. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1325671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enabling PUF-based Authentication in QKD Networks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Tahir, S.; Civelli, S.; Ferrari, M.; Pot\u00ec, L.; Paolini, E.; Nadimi Goki, P.; Brunero, M.; Gatto, A.; Andriolli, N.; Giorgetti, A. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1307008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Addressing optical modulator non-linearities for photonic neural networks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Seigo Kincaid, Peter; Andriolli, Nicola; Contestabile, Giampiero; De Marinis, Lorenzo - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1274987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Generalized quantum-assisted digital signature service in an SDN-controlled quantum-integrated optical network<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Giorgetti, Alessio; Andriolli, Nicola; Ferrari, Marco; Storelli, Elisabetta; DAVIDE PADUANELLI, Gennaro; Cacicia, Antonino; PAOLO PAGANELLI, Rudi; Tarable, Alberto; Paolini, Emilio; Sajeva, Giada; Brunero, Marco; Gagliano, Alessandro; Martelli, Paolo; Noviello, Pietro; Schmid, Giovanni; Gatto, Alberto - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1299587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FPGA-based acceleration of QC-LDPC syndrome encoding for QKD systems<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Origlia, Marco; Pinaud, Maximilien; Maggiani, Luca; Castoldi, Piero; Andriolli, Nicola - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1299571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Activation Stretching for Tackling Noise in Photonic Aware Neural Networks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Paolini, E; De Marinis, L; Valcarenghi, L; Maggiani, L; Andriolli, N - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1299570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lithium Niobate on Insulator Technology for applications in the 1064 nm Window<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Contestabile, G.; De Marinis, L.; Kincaid, P. 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