Senior Staff Optical Testing Engineer at Marvell · Ottawa, Canada

Mahmood
Abu-Romoh, PhD

Specialized in coherent optical communication systems for data centers and AI infrastructure. Advancing high-speed 400G, 800G, and 1.6T pluggable transceivers from physical principles to production.

Data Centers AI Infrastructure Coherent Optics DSP
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Mahmood Abu-Romoh

Research & Publications

Selected Work

2019
Neural-network-based pre-distortion to compensate for low resolution DAC nonlinearity ECOC 2019 · M. Abu-Romoh, S. Sygletos, I. Phillips, W. Forysiak · Cited 19
→ 2021
Experimental verification of 64-Gbd/64-QAM interworking of probabilistic shaping with a digital resolution enhancer OFC 2021 · M. Abu-Romoh et al.
→ 2020
Numerical study on the combination of Probabilistic Shaping and Digital Resolution Enhancer for high baud rate optical communications ECOC 2020 · M. Abu-Romoh, T. T. Nguyen, Y. Yoffe, I. Phillips, W. Forysiak
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August 22, 2025 · 4 min read · AI & Machine Learning

AI is Eating Itself to Death: Why Model Collapse Could Spell Disaster for the Future of AI

Training AI on AI-generated outputs creates a recursive feedback loop - and researchers warn the damage may be irreversible.

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July 17, 2026 · 4 min read · Engineering & Communication

The Problem, The Solution, and The Ask: Communicating Like a Signal Engineer

How the discipline of signal processing maps onto human communication — and a framework for eliminating noise from any pitch or proposal.

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