Kieran Parsons

- Phone: 617-621-7529
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Senior Team Leader -
Education:
Ph.D., University of Bristol, UK, 1996 -
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Biography
Kieran spent 12 years in Canada working at Nortel, BelAir Networks and AMCC on the system design of several wireless and optical technologies, including early work on electronic dispersion compensation for optical links. His research interests include optical communications network architecture and digital signal processing algorithms for coherent optical communications.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL Scientists Presenting 5 Papers at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022 Date: May 16, 2022 - May 20, 2022
Where: Seoul, Korea
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Kyeong Jin (K.J.) Kim; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons; Pu (Perry) Wang; Ye Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal ProcessingBrief- MERL Connectivity & Information Processing Team scientists remotely presented 5 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022, held in Seoul Korea on May 16-20, 2022. Topics presented include recent advancements in communications technologies, deep learning methods, and quantum machine learning (QML). Presentation videos are also found on our YouTube channel. In addition, K. J. Kim organized "Industrial Private 5G-and-beyond Wireless Networks Workshop" at the conference.
IEEE ICC is one of two IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences (ICC and Globecom). Each year, close to 2,000 attendees from over 70 countries attend IEEE ICC to take advantage of a program which consists of exciting keynote session, robust technical paper sessions, innovative tutorials and workshops, and engaging industry sessions. This 5-day event is known for bringing together audiences from both industry and academia to learn about the latest research and innovations in communications and networking technology, share ideas and best practices, and collaborate on future projects.
- MERL Connectivity & Information Processing Team scientists remotely presented 5 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022, held in Seoul Korea on May 16-20, 2022. Topics presented include recent advancements in communications technologies, deep learning methods, and quantum machine learning (QML). Presentation videos are also found on our YouTube channel. In addition, K. J. Kim organized "Industrial Private 5G-and-beyond Wireless Networks Workshop" at the conference.
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NEWS MERL Scientists Presented 5 Papers Including 2 Invited Talks at Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2020 Date: March 8, 2020 - March 13, 2020
MERL Contacts: Devesh K. Jha; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons; Ye Wang
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Machine Learning, Signal ProcessingBrief- Due to COVID-19, MERL Optical Team scientists remotely presented 5 papers including 2 invited talks at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2020, that was held in San Diego from March 8-13, 2020. Topics presented include recent advances in quantum signal processing, channel coding design, nano-optic power splitter, and deep learning-based integrated photonics. In addition, Dr. Kojima gave an invited workshop talk on deep learning-based nano-photonic device optimization.
OFC is the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals. The program is comprehensive from research to marketplace, from components to systems and networks and from technical sessions to the exhibition. For over 40 years, OFC has drawn attendees from all corners of the globe to meet and greet, teach and learn, make connections and move the industry forward. The five-day technical conference features peer reviewed presentations and more than 180 invited speakers, the thought leaders in the industry presenting the highlights of emerging technologies. Additional technical programming throughout the week includes special symposia, special sessions, in-depth tutorials, workshops, panels and the thought-provoking rump session.
- Due to COVID-19, MERL Optical Team scientists remotely presented 5 papers including 2 invited talks at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2020, that was held in San Diego from March 8-13, 2020. Topics presented include recent advances in quantum signal processing, channel coding design, nano-optic power splitter, and deep learning-based integrated photonics. In addition, Dr. Kojima gave an invited workshop talk on deep learning-based nano-photonic device optimization.
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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; 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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Research Highlights
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MERL Publications
- "Variational Quantum Compressed Sensing for Joint User and Channel State Acquisition in Grant-Free Device Access Systems", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2022.BibTeX TR2022-052 PDF Video Presentation
- @inproceedings{Liu2022may3,
- author = {Liu, Bryan and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {Variational Quantum Compressed Sensing for Joint User and Channel State Acquisition in Grant-Free Device Access Systems},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
- year = 2022,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-052}
- }
, - "Mobility, Communication and Computation Aware Federated Learning for Internet of Vehicles", arXiv, May 2022.BibTeX arXiv
- @article{Pervej2022apr,
- author = {Pervej, Md Ferdous and Guo, Jianlin and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V. and Di Cairano, Stefano and Menner, Marcel and Berntorp, Karl and Nagai, Yukimasa and Dai, Huaiyu},
- title = {Mobility, Communication and Computation Aware Federated Learning for Internet of Vehicles},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2022,
- month = may,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09529}
- }
, - "Learning to Learn Quantum Turbo Detection", arXiv, May 2022. ,
- "Semi-Persistent Scheduling Scheme for Low-Latency and High-Reliability Transmissions in Private 5G Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), May 2022.BibTeX TR2022-050 PDF
- @inproceedings{song2022may,
- author = {song, Hao and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Guo, Jianlin and Orlik, Philip V. and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {Semi-Persistent Scheduling Scheme for Low-Latency and High-Reliability Transmissions in Private 5G Networks},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
- year = 2022,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-050}
- }
, - "Linefield Coherent Sensing", arXiv, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2202.12161, February 2022.BibTeX arXiv
- @article{Yurdakul2022feb,
- author = {Yurdakul, Celalettin and Millar, David S. and Mansour, Hassan and Wang, Pu and Kojima, Keisuke and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V.},
- title = {Linefield Coherent Sensing},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2022,
- month = feb,
- doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2202.12161},
- url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12161}
- }
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- "Variational Quantum Compressed Sensing for Joint User and Channel State Acquisition in Grant-Free Device Access Systems", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2022.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Frequency Modulated Image Reconstruction"
Inventors: Millar, David; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 11,346,932
Issue Date: May 31, 2022 -
Title: "An Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) System for Producing Profilometry Measurements of a Specimen"
Inventors: Millar, David; Yurdakul, Celalettin; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 11,262,184
Issue Date: Mar 1, 2022 -
Title: "Reference-Free Nonlinearity Correction for FMCW-Based Sensing Systems"
Inventors: Wang, Pu; Millar, David; Lin, Chungwei; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 10,969,465
Issue Date: Apr 6, 2021 -
Title: "Loose Optical Fiber Tethering Of Multiple Satellites"
Inventors: Parsons, Kieran; Weiss, Avishai; Orlik, Philip V.; Di Cairano, Stefano
Patent No.: 10,892,826
Issue Date: Jan 12, 2021 -
Title: "Compact Photonic Devices"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Tahersima, Mohammad; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Jha, Devesh; Wang, Bingnan; Lin, Chungwei; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,859,769
Issue Date: Dec 8, 2020 -
Title: "Optical Ring circuit with electrical filter"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Teng, Min; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Gotoda, Mitsunobu; Lin, Chungwei; Akiyama, Koichi
Patent No.: 10,838,282
Issue Date: Nov 17, 2020 -
Title: "System and Method for Short Block Length Distribution Matching"
Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 10,749,554
Issue Date: Aug 18, 2020 -
Title: "Pilot-Aided Carrier Phase Estimation for Optical Communications"
Inventors: Millar, David; Pajovic, Milutin; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,554,309
Issue Date: Feb 4, 2020 -
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: "Resource Aware Routing in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,900,824
Issue Date: Feb 20, 2018 -
Title: "Synchronized Multi-Sink Routing for Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,826,493
Issue Date: Nov 21, 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: "Energy Efficient Management of Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Liu, Kaikai; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,736,771
Issue Date: Aug 15, 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: "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: "Tracking of Occluded Navigation Satellite Signals"
Inventors: Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Osechas, Okuary; Kniazev, Andrei; Parsons, Kieran; Sahinoglu, Zafer
Patent No.: 9,476,990
Issue Date: Oct 25, 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: "Discovering Stable Routes in Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran; Yang, Xin
Patent No.: 9,407,559
Issue Date: Aug 2, 2016 -
Title: "Optical Channel Data Unit Switch with Distributed Control"
Inventors: Duan, Chunjie; Bhatti, Ghulam M.; Parsons, Kieran; Koguchi, Kazuumi; Kametani, Soichiro
Patent No.: 9,246,748
Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016 -
Title: "Passive Synchronization in Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,226,253
Issue Date: Dec 29, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Clustering Devices in Machine-to-Machine Networks to Minimize Collisions"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,225,606
Issue Date: Dec 29, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Separating Multi-Component Signals"
Inventors: Sahinoglu, Zafer; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,190,955
Issue Date: Nov 17, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Discovering Neighboring Nodes in Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,148,845
Issue Date: Sep 29, 2015 -
Title: "Adaptively Coding and Modulating Signals Transmitted Via Nonlinear Channels"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Duan, Chunjie; Tarokh, Vahid; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 9,077,508
Issue Date: Jul 7, 2015 -
Title: "Methods for Energy Efficient Reoptimization of Optical Networks"
Inventors: Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 8,891,967
Issue Date: Nov 18, 2014 -
Title: "Methods for Determining Energy Efficient Optical Routes"
Inventors: Yim, Man Hei Raymond; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 8,634,714
Issue Date: Jan 21, 2014 -
Title: "Iterative Carrier Phase Compensation in Coherent Fiber Optic Receivers"
Inventors: Duan, Chunjie; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 8,498,544
Issue Date: Jul 30, 2013 -
Title: "Adaptive Cross-Polarization Modulation Cancellers for Coherent Optical Communication System"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Liu, Cheng
Patent No.: 8,472,809
Issue Date: Jun 25, 2013 -
Title: "Cross-Free High-Dimensional Constellations for Dual-Polarized Non-Linear Fiber-Optic Communications"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 8,433,205
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013 -
Title: "Method for Performing Soft Decision Decoding of Euclidean Space Reed-Muller Codes"
Inventors: Orlik, Philip V.; Yim, Man Hei Raymond; Parsons, Kieran; Tarokh, Vahid; Zhang, Jinyun
Patent No.: 8,245,116
Issue Date: Aug 14, 2012
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Title: "Frequency Modulated Image Reconstruction"