Ligia Zorello

Optical Networks Engineer at META

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Ligia Zorello obtained her BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering in Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and a MSc in Telecommunications Engineering in Télécom ParisTech, France. After that, she obtained a Ph.D. in information technology at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her PhD research involved developing algorithms for 5G radio access networks baseband function placement, mainly considering traffic prediction and the impact of wrong predictions in the overall network performance. In 2022., she joined Meta as an optical network engineer, where she is responsible for designing and scaling the optical backbone network of Meta.