Email mario.pickavet@intec.ugent.be

Phone +32 9 331 49 24
 

Mario Pickavet received an M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, specialized in telecommunications, from Ghent University in 1996 and 1999, respectively. Since 2000, he is professor at Ghent University where he is teaching courses on discrete mathematics and network modeling.

He is leading the research cluster on Network Design, Modeling and Evaluation, together with Prof. Didier Colle. In this context, he is involved in a large number of European and national research projects, as well as in the Technical Programme Committee of a dozen of international conferences.

He has published over 100 international journal articles (IEEE JSAC, IEEE Comm. Mag., Journal of Lightwave Technology, Proc. of the IEEE, Photonic Network Communication, ...) and over 300 publications in international conference proceedings. He is co-author of the book 'Network Recovery: Protection and Restoration of Optical, SONET-SDH, IP, and MPLS'.

Research

• Network Modeling, Design and Evaluation

Advisor of PhDs

Maarten Houbraken, Sofie Lambert, Ine Melckenbeeck, Sahel Sahhaf, Sachin Sharma, Thomas Soenen, Sander Vrijders

Koen Casier, Jan Cheyns, Didier Colle, Sophie De Maesschalck, Sofie Demeyer, Chris Develder, Adelbert Groebbens, Bart Lannoo, Bart Puype, Dimitri Staessens, Wouter Tavernier, Erik Van Breusegem, Ruth Van Caenegem, Marlies Van der Wee, Sofie Verbrugge, Willem Vereecken, Tim Wauters

Courses

Bachelor: Discrete Mathematics I

Master: Mobile and Broadband Access Networks, Network Modelling and Design