David Millar
- Phone: 617-621-7518
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Research / Technical Staff
Principal Research Scientist -
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Ph.D., University College London, 2011 -
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Biography
Before joining MERL, David was a postdoctoral researcher at UCL, working on DSPs for coherent optical fiber transmission. Since then, he has been working on next generation systems and subsystems for the physical layer. He is particularly interested in advanced modulation formats, algorithms for equalization & carrier recovery, and reduced complexity transponders.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL Scientists Presenting 5 Papers including 2 Invited Talks at European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2019 Date: September 22, 2019 - September 26, 2019
MERL Contacts: Devesh Jha; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Keisuke Kojima; David Millar; Kieran Parsons; Ye Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Optimization, Signal ProcessingBrief- MERL Optical Team scientists will be presenting 5 papers including 2 invited talks at the 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2019, which is being held in Dublin from September 22-26, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in sophisticated constellation shaping schemes, lattice coding, and deep learning-based turbo equalization to mitigate fiber nonlinearity. Dr. Kojima is giving an invited workshop talk on deep learning-based nano-photonic device optimization. Dr. Tobias Fehenberger, a former Visiting Scientist is giving an invited talk related to our joint paper "Mapping Strategies for Short-Length Probabilistic Shaping"
ECOC is the largest optical communications event in Europe and a key meeting place for more than 1,500 scientists and researchers from institutions and companies across the world. The conference features more than 400 oral and poster presentations from various major telecoms industries and universities. As well as being one of the largest scientific conferences globally, ECOC also features Europe’s largest optical communications exhibition.
- MERL Optical Team scientists will be presenting 5 papers including 2 invited talks at the 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2019, which is being held in Dublin from September 22-26, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in sophisticated constellation shaping schemes, lattice coding, and deep learning-based turbo equalization to mitigate fiber nonlinearity. Dr. Kojima is giving an invited workshop talk on deep learning-based nano-photonic device optimization. Dr. Tobias Fehenberger, a former Visiting Scientist is giving an invited talk related to our joint paper "Mapping Strategies for Short-Length Probabilistic Shaping"
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NEWS Dr. Koike-Akino gave an invited talk on polar coding at OECC 2019 Date: July 9, 2019
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Keisuke Kojima; David Millar; Kieran Parsons; Ye Wang
Research Area: CommunicationsBrief- MERL researchers presented an invited talk at OptElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), held at Fukuoka, Japan. The speech focused on recent advancement of error correction coding based on polar codes and suited for hardware implementation in high-speed optical communications.
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Awards
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AWARD MERL researchers presented 5 papers at the 2016 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), including one "Top Scored" paper. Date: March 24, 2016
Awarded to: Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Keisuke Kojima, David S. Millar, Kieran Parsons, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Takashi Sugihara
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Keisuke Kojima; David Millar; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal ProcessingBrief- Five papers from the Optical Comms team were presented at the 2016 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) held in Anaheim, USA in March 2016. The papers relate to enhanced modulation formats, constellation shaping, chromatic dispersion estimation, low complexity adaptive equalization and coding for coherent optical links. The top-scored paper studied optimal selection of coding and modulation sets to jointly maximize nonlinear tolerance and spectral efficiency.
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Internships with David
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SP1410: Coherent Optical Sensing
MERL is seeking an intern to work on coherent optical sensing. The ideal candidate would be an experienced PhD student or post-graduate researcher working in coherent sensing. The candidate should have a detailed knowledge of optical interferometry and imaging with a focus on either optical coherence tomography, optical coherence microscopy or FMCW LIDAR. Strong programming skills in Matlab are essential. Experience of working in an optical lab environment would be advantageous. Duration is 3 to 6 months.
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MERL Publications
- , "Neural Turbo Equalization to Mitigate Fiber Nonlinearity", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), September 2019.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-088
- @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2019sep,
- author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Millar, David S. and Kojima, Keisuke and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {Neural Turbo Equalization to Mitigate Fiber Nonlinearity},
- booktitle = {European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)},
- year = 2019,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-088}
- }
- , "Huffman Coded Sphere Shaping with Short Length Reduced Complexity", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), September 2019.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-105
- @inproceedings{Millar2019sep,
- author = {Millar, David S. and Fehenberger, Tobias and Yoshida, Tsuyoshi and Suzuki, Naoki and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Kojima, Keisuke and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {Huffman Coded Sphere Shaping with Short Length Reduced Complexity},
- booktitle = {European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)},
- year = 2019,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-105}
- }
- , "Mapping Strategies for Short-Length Probabilistic Shaping", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), September 2019.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-106
- @inproceedings{Fehenberger2019sep,
- author = {Fehenberger, Tobias and Millar, David S. and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Kojima, Keisuke and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {Mapping Strategies for Short-Length Probabilistic Shaping},
- booktitle = {European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)},
- year = 2019,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-106}
- }
- , "Short Lattice-Based Shaping Approach Exploiting Non-Binary Coded Modulation", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), September 2019.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-092
- @inproceedings{Matsumine2019sep,
- author = {Matsumine, Toshiki and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Millar, David S. and Kojima, Keisuke and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {Short Lattice-Based Shaping Approach Exploiting Non-Binary Coded Modulation},
- booktitle = {European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)},
- year = 2019,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-092}
- }
- , "Hardware-Efficient Quantized Polar Decoding with Optimized Lookup Table", OptoElectronics and Communications Conference and International Conference on Photonics in Switching (OECC/PS), DOI: 10.23919/PS.2019.8817861, ISBN: 978-4-88552-321-2, July 2019.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-070
- @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2019jul,
- author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Cayci, Semih and Millar, David S. and Kojima, Keisuke and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {Hardware-Efficient Quantized Polar Decoding with Optimized Lookup Table},
- booktitle = {OptoElectronics and Communications Conference and International Conference on Photonics in Switching (OECC/PS)},
- year = 2019,
- month = jul,
- doi = {10.23919/PS.2019.8817861},
- isbn = {978-4-88552-321-2},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-070}
- }
- , "Neural Turbo Equalization to Mitigate Fiber Nonlinearity", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), September 2019.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Short Block Length Distribution Matching Algorithm"
Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,541,711
Issue Date: Jan 21, 2020 -
Title: "Distribution Matcher"
Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 10,516,503
Issue Date: Dec 24, 2019 -
Title: "Optical Signal Transmitter and Optical Signal Encoder Using Constant Modulus Formats, and Method for Generating Modulation Codes"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Yoshida, Tsuyoshi; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,320,486
Issue Date: Jun 11, 2019 -
Title: "Partition Based Distribution Matcher for Probabilistic Constellation Shaping"
Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,069,519
Issue Date: Sep 4, 2018 -
Title: "Frequency Domain Equalizer for Optical Communications"
Inventors: Millar, David; Paskov, Milan; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 9,917,712
Issue Date: Mar 13, 2018 -
Title: "Methods for Compensation of Cross-Polarization Modulation (XPolM) Impairments in Coherent Optical Communications"
Inventors: Pajovic, Milutin; Parsons, Kieran; Millar, David; Kojima, Keisuke; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki
Patent No.: 9,906,308
Issue Date: Feb 27, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method of Belief Propagation Decoding"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Millar, David
Patent No.: 9,806,743
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2017 -
Title: "Optical Signal Transmitter and Optical Communication System Using Constant Modulus Formats, and Method for Generating Modulation Codes"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Yoshida, Tsuyoshi; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,806,739
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2017 -
Title: "Fast Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) Computation for Decoding High-Order and High-Dimensional Modulation Schemes"
Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,749,089
Issue Date: Aug 29, 2017 -
Title: "Method for Generating Constant Modulus Multi-Dimensional Modulations for Coherent Optical Communications"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,621,275
Issue Date: Apr 11, 2017 -
Title: "Quaternary Block-Coded High-Dimensional Modulation for Coherent Optical Communications"
Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki
Patent No.: 9,584,259
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2017 -
Title: "Adaptive Error Correction Code for Optical Super-Channels"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki
Patent No.: 9,584,256
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2017 -
Title: "Pilot-Aided Coherent Receiver for Optical Communications"
Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Pajovic, Milutin
Patent No.: 9,559,786
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2017 -
Title: "System and Method for Recovering Carrier Phase in Optical Communications"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Millar, David
Patent No.: 9,473,250
Issue Date: Oct 18, 2016 -
Title: "Inter-Channel Interference Management for Optical Super-Channels"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,432,124
Issue Date: Aug 30, 2016 -
Title: "Method and System for Modulating Optical Signals as High-Dimensional Lattice Constellation Points to Increase Tolerance to Noise"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kniazev, Andrei; Millar, David
Patent No.: 9,112,653
Issue Date: Aug 18, 2015
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Title: "Short Block Length Distribution Matching Algorithm"