“It’s an exciting time to work in photonics to build systems for the sustainable cloud, with a goal of empowering the widest number of people, now and in the future” says Fotini Karinou, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab.

In July 2018, Karinou joined Microsoft Research in Cambridge, the Cloud Systems Futures group, where she is driving research on novel optical technologies for next-generation cloud computing systems and networks.