Dominique Verchere is Expert Research Engineer at Bell Labs. He received Electrical Engineering M.Sc. in Material Physics, Computer Science M.Sc. and Ph.D. on Performance Evaluation methods of Network Systems from Paris University of Pierre & Marie Curie. Since 1998, he has contributed on advanced control functions for future transport networks.

At Bell Labs, he developed automated connection recovery scenarios reported in several European funded projects. He worked on Path Computing Element, Multi-Technology Operations System Interface to control Ethernet connectivity for Cloud services. He supported Optics business division on several Research and Educational Network projects. Through proof-of-concepts, he is performing research on Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers for disaggregated optical networks in datacenters, metro/ transport networks. He has published more than 100 papers and 30 patents in router systems, control functions, energy efficient networks, scheduler algorithms and quantitative analysis.