Prof. Dr. Mikhail E. Belkin received an engineering degree in radio and television from Moscow Institute of Telecommunications, in 1971, Ph. D. degree in telecommunication and electronic engineering from Moscow Technical University of Telecommunications and Informatics, in 1996, and Sc. D. degree in photonics and optical communications from Moscow State Technical University of Radio-Engineering, Electronics and Automation, in 2007. He has written more than 250 scientific works in English and Russian. The major current R&D fields are fiber-optic devices and systems, microwave photonics, photonic ICs, incoming cellular communication networks, computer-aided design.
At present, M. E. Belkin is the Director of the Scientific and Technological Center “Integrated Microwave Photonicsâ€, Professor of the department “Optical and Optoelectronic Devices and Systemsâ€, Institute of Physics and Technology, MIREA - Russian Technological University, and he is a member of IEEE’s MTTS, LEOS (now PNS), and COMSOC from 2006, and a member of OSA from 2018.