In this episode (5 of 5), Prasunika Khare at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain - talks about being a researcher on the EC-funded European Industrial Doctorate MENTOR and also, on her earlier research work and how paved her way to MENTOR. MENTOR is an EC-funded Horizon2020 project that looks at optical communications using AI and machine learning. There are six researchers located in top research institutes around the UK and in Europe working with industrial partners Orange, Infinera and Telecom Mobile Italia. If you are thinking of a PhD or a career in optical networks research or in the optical communications industry, this podcast is for you. Find out more on ML&AI and the MSCA programmes by taking a listen. MENTOR is funded by EC Horizon2020, under Marie Curie Sklodowska (MSCA) Grant 956713.