Sept. 2025: TC Innovation Support Project 2025 on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks is funded by the IEEE Communications Society [PI: M. A. Jamshed, A. Kaushik].

Sept. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 21: 6G Beyond Just Communications: Synergies of ISAC, AI, ESIT and NTN Authors," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Sept. 2025: Invited Panel Speaker on "Inclusive AI for Sustainable Development," at the IEEE Women in Engineering Leadership Summit 2025, London, UK.

Sept. 2025: Paper "Power Minimization in Beyond Diagonal STAR-RIS Assisted NOMA-Empowered NF-ISAC Systems," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan.

Sept. 2025: Paper "RIS-Assisted Transmit Antenna Selection-Spatial Modulation Network with Manifold Optimization," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan.

Sept. 2025: Paper "Joint Optimization of Age of Information and Energy Efficiency in Energy-Constrained IIoT Networks: An Agentic DRL Framework," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan.

Sept. 2025: Paper "SURYA: Quantum-Resilient Explainable Federated Learning for UAV Intrusion Detection over 6G Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan.

Sept. 2025: Paper "DL-Driven Optimized Framework for RIS-aided URLLC-Enabled NTN System with ISAC," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan.

Sept. 2025: Paper "SDNSecure: A Federated CNN-Based Traffic Analytics and Blockchain-Enabled Storage Framework for 6G-Integrated SDN," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan.

Sept. 2025: Paper, "Space-Time RSMA for Robust Max-Min Fair Transmission in LEO Satellite Networks," is accepted for publication at the ICTC 2025, Jeju Island, South Korea.

Sept. 2025: Video Podcast "6G for a Connected Future," is published by Coursera.

Aug. 2025: Paper "Heterogeneous Resource Allocation for Space-Air Ground-Integrated Networks: A Multi-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Approach," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Aug. 2025: Paper "Beamforming Design for Wideband Near-Field Communications With Reconfigurable Refractive Surfaces," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Aug. 2025: Paper "Enhancing Physical Layer Security of URLLC using Artificial Noise in Full-Duplex Cooperative NOMA," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Aug. 2025: Paper "Quantum-Assisted Optimization of Movable Antenna Configurations for Cellular Coverage Enhancement," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

Aug. 2025: Paper "An Outage Analysis of Hovering UAV and STAR-RIS Aided NOMA ISAC System for SAGIN," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

Aug. 2025: Paper "Holographic Active RIS-aided Robust Secure Uplink Near-Field NOMA Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

Aug. 2025: Invited Panel Speaker on "Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory: From Fundamentals to Practical Aspects," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

Aug. 2025: Distinguished Speaker on "Machine Learning for 6G Communications: Latest Advances and Applications," at the IEEE ComSoc, one6G and IHU's Next Generation Communications Training School and Research Colloquium, Kefalonia, Greece.

Aug. 2025: Invited Speaker on "6G Innovation Beyond Just Communications: Empowering Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity," at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Osaka, Japan.

Aug. 2025: Keynote Speaker on "Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory for 6G: Latest Advances and Synergies," at the IEEE PIMRC 2025 Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey.

Aug. 2025: Keynote Speaker on "Sustainable and Intelligent Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE PIMRC 2025 Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey.

Aug. 2025: Invited Panel Speaker at the Career Fair Event, IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Aug. 2025: Invited Speaker/Mentor at the Joint WICE/Young Professionals Mentoring Session, IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Aug. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 20: Integrated Sensing and Communications and Non-Terrestrial Networks," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Aug. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 19: Holographic MIMO Communications and Demo," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Aug. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 18: 6G's Role in Connecting the Unconnected," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Aug. 2025: Serving as WG3 Vice Chair of the one6G Association.

Aug. 2025: Serving as Symposium/Track Chair for "Satellite and Space Communications" at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2026, Macau, China.

Aug. 2025: Paper "Learning-Based RIS Element Allocation and SWIPT Optimization for Active RIS-Aided UAV Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE CSCN 2025, Bologna, Italy.

Aug. 2025: Paper "Toward Intelligent Bandwidth Prioritization in Distributed 6G ISAC: An Agentic AI Perspective," is accepted for publication at the IEEE CSCN 2025, Bologna, Italy.

Aug. 2025: Serving as Publicity Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE ICC 2026, Glasgow, UK.

Aug. 2025: Serving as TPC Co-Chair for the IEEE NextGCom 2026, Kefalonia, Greece.

Aug. 2025: Serving as General Chair for the "2nd Workshop on Distributed Computing in 6G IoT Networks," at the IEEE ANTS 2025, Delhi, India.

Aug. 2025: Serving as PhD External Examiner at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Patna, India (2025).

Aug. 2025: Serving as Student Travel Grant Award Evaluator at the IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Aug. 2025: Invited Speaker on "Robotics with Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE P1955 Standard for 6G Empowering Robotics Working Group Seminar.

July 2025: Paper "LLM-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Novel Framework for Resource Optimization in 6G and Beyond Wireless Networks," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Magazine.

July 2025: Paper "Huffman Coding-Inspired Secret Key Generation from Wireless Channel for Secure Communications," is accepted for publication at the IEEE VTC-Fall Workshop, Chengdu, China.

July 2025: Invited Paper "Channel Knowledge Maps for 6G Wireless Networks: Construction, Applications, and Future Challenges," is published in the ZTE Communications.

July 2025: Invited Speaker on "6G Non-Terrestrial Networks for Ubiquitous Connectivity," at the ICTC 2025, Jeju Island, South Korea.

July 2025: Distinguished Speaker on "Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G: Role of Sensing, AI, ESIT, and NTN," at the IEEE ComSoc 2025 Workshop on Enabling Technologies for 6G and Beyond, London, UK. 

July 2025: Guest Editorial "Unveiling the Cosmic Connection: AI's Pivotal Role in Bridging Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks," is published in the IEEE Wireless Communications.

July 2025: Paper "Ergodic Capacity of Hard-Switching in Hybrid FSO/IRS-Assisted RF Transmission," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ISMAC 2025, Bohol Island, Philippines.

July 2025: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Towards Ubiquitous Connectivity: Massive MIMO Antennas for Spaceborne and Aerial 5G/6G Platforms" in the IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (2025-26).

July 2025: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Enhancing Network Science with LLMs and Federated AI: Innovations in Security, Scalability, and Adaptive Intelligence" in the Wireless Networks (2025-26).

June 2025: Awarded with the Top Editor Award 2024 for the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

June 2025: Appointed as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at the RakFort, Ireland (2025 onwards).

June 2025: Serving as PhD External Examiner for Licentiate Thesis at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2025).

June 2025: Appointed as Adjunct Professor at the IIIT-Delhi, India (2025-27).

June 2025: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "ESIT for Electromagnetics, Antennas, Propagation and Channel Models" in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation (2025-26).

June 2025: Paper "Towards 6G Evolution: Three Enhancements, Three Innovations, and Three Major Challenges," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Network. 

June 2025: Paper "Federated Learning-Empowered RIS-Assisted UAV Networks for IoT Data Collection and Optimisation," is accepted for publication at the IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

June 2025: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Distributed and Integrated Communication, Sensing, and Computing in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks for 6G," at the IEEE TrustCom 2025, Guiyang, China.

June 2025: Serving as Member of the euRobotics Topic Group on xGRobotics: Connected Robotics.

June 2025: Keynote Speaker on "6G beyond only Communications: Role of Sensing, AI, ESIT, and NTN," at the International Adaptive and Sustainable Science, Engineering and Technology Conference 2025, Manchester, UK.

May 2025: Keynote Speaker on "6G Innovation Beyond Just Communications: Empowering Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity," at the IEEE BlackSeaCom 2025, Chisinau, Moldova.

May 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G: Role of Sensing, AI, ESIT, and NTN," at the 18th FutureWei University Days Workshop 2025, Futurewei Technologies, Schaumburg (Chicago), IL, USA.

May 2025: Paper "Holographic-Pattern Based Multi-User Beam Training in RHS-Aided Hybrid Near-Field and Far-Field Communications," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

May 2025: Paper "CmWave and Sub-THz: Key Radio Enablers and Complementary Spectrum for 6G," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Wireless Communications. 

May 2025: Serving as General Chair for the "6th Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

May 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G: Role of Sensing, AI, ESIT, and NTN," at the Peking University, China.

May 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G: Role of Sensing, AI, ESIT, and NTN," at the University of Essex, UK.

May 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G: Role of Sensing, AI, ESIT, and NTN," at the Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

May 2025: Invited Speaker on "6G Beyond Just Communications: Towards Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity," at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

May 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G: Role of Sensing, AI, ESIT, and NTN," at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China.

Apr. 2025: Tutorial Speaker on "Integrated Sensing, Intelligent Metasurfaces, and Advanced Beam Manipulation Techniques for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Apr. 2025: Distinguished Speaker on "Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory: What to Expect?," at the one6G Open Lectures.

Apr. 2025: Tutorial Speaker on "Integrated and Intelligent Connectivity for 6G and Beyond: Latest Advances & the Road Ahead," IEEE VTC-Spring 2025, Oslo, Norway.

Apr. 2025: Tutorial Speaker on "Machine Learning for Resource Allocation in 6G Wireless Networks," IEEE VTC-Spring 2025, Oslo, Norway.

Apr. 2025: Tutorial Speaker on "Zero-Touch Networks: The Interplay of Sensing, Communication, and Decision Making," IEEE MeditCom 2025, Nice, France.

Apr. 2025: Keynote Speaker on "Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Apr. 2025: Keynote Speaker on "Integrated and Intelligent Connectivity for 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks," at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Apr. 2025: Keynote Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Apr. 2025: Serving as External Assessor at the University of Mauritius, Mauritius.

Apr. 2025: TC Innovation Support Project 2025 on Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory is funded by the IEEE Communications Society [PI: A. Kaushik, M. Di Renzo].

Apr. 2025: TC Innovation Support Project 2025 on Machine Learning for Communications is funded by the IEEE Communications Society [PI: C. Fischione, A. Kaushik].

Apr. 2025: Paper "Low Complexity Joint Radar-Communication Systems Design in the RF Domain," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

Apr. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 17: All Things 6G and Sustainability," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Apr. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 16: Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Apr. 2025: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on AI RAN," at the IEEE VTC-Fall 2025, Chengdu, China.

Apr. 2025: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "6G from the Sky: Enhancing the Connectivity via Non-Terrestrial Networks" in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2025-26).

Apr. 2025: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence for Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks" in the Mobile Networks and Applications (2025-26).

Apr. 2025: Invited Speaker on “Integrated and Intelligent 6G: Role of Sensing, AI, and NTN,” at the Shenzhen Peng Cheng Laboratory, China.

Apr. 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India.

Apr. 2025: Invited Speaker on "Optimization and Signal Processing for Integrated Sensing and Communications," at the Department of Mathematics and Computing, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India.

Apr. 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," at the Department of Electronics & Communications Engineering, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India.

Apr. 2025: Invited Speaker on "6G beyond only Communications," at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS Pilani) - Hyderabad Campus , India. 

Apr. 2025: Invited Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," at the School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India.

Apr. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 15: O-RAN, Digital Twin, and Machine Learning for Sustainable 6G," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Mar. 2025: Paper "WIND: A Wireless Intelligent Network Digital Twin for Federated Learning and Multi-Layer Optimization," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

Mar. 2025: Serving as Symposium/Track Chair for "Medium Access Control and Networking" at the IEEE WCNC 2026, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mar. 2025: Serving as General Chair for the "5th Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Mar. 2025: Serving as General Chair for the "8th Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Mar. 2025: Serving as External Assessor (Academic Promotion) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Mar. 2025: Serving as PhD External Examiner at the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, India (2025).

Mar. 2025: Paper "DRL-enhanced QoS-aware NOMA for Ambient IoT: Resource Allocation Optimization with RIS and RF Energy Harvesting Diversity," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

Mar. 2025: Paper "Optimal Multi-level ASKs for RIS-Aided Noncoherent Wireless Systems in the Presence of Direct Channel," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Mar. 2025: Paper "AI-driven Computation Offloading in MEC-enabled Vehicular Networks: A Dual-Stage DRL Framework," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Mar. 2025: Paper "DRL-Based Resource Optimization for Full-Duplex RIS-aided Multi-user NOMA ISAC Systems," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Mar. 2025: Paper "RSMA for Reconfigurable Holographic Surface-aided Downlink Near-Field Communication," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Mar. 2025: Paper "Exploring Elemental Properties of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Mar. 2025: Paper "Adaptive Neural Network Optimization for Fully Connected STAR-RIS-Aided NOMA Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Mar. 2025: Invited Proposal Reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR).

Mar. 2025: Serving as Co-Organizer of the "Special Session on Understanding and Shaping the Role of In-Network Computing for 6G Networks," at the EuCNC and 6G Summit 2025, Poznan, Poland.

Feb. 2025: Tutorial Speaker on "Machine Learning for 6G Network Resource Management and Semantic Communications," at the IEEE ICMLCN 2025, Barcelona, Spain.

Feb. 2025: Keynote Speaker on "Integrated and Intelligent Connectivity for 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks," at the IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop, London, UK.

Feb. 2025: Tutorial Speaker on "Integrated and Intelligent Connectivity for 6G and Beyond: Latest Advances & the Road Ahead," at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Feb. 2025: Tutorial Speaker on "Machine Learning for 6G Wireless Networks: Latest Advances, Fundamentals, and Applications," at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Feb. 2025: Paper "Advancing Healthcare Through 6G IoMT: Latest Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

Feb. 2025: Paper "Exploring FarmBot in Agriculture Applications: An AI and IoT based Robotic System for Farmers with Disabilities," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

Feb. 2025: Serving as Co-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society's Special Interest Group (SIG) on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks.

Jan. 2025: Video Podcast "Episode 14: Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory, and Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Jan. 2025: Paper "CVaR-Based Variational Quantum Optimization for User Association in Handoff-Aware Vehicular Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Jan. 2025: Paper "Near-Field Secure Communications with NOMA-aided SWIPT Systems," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Jan. 2025: Paper "Optimizing SWIPT in Multi-RIS aided V2I Networks: A Deep Learning Approach," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Jan. 2025: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Jan. 2025: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Jan. 2025: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

Jan. 2025: Guest Editorial "Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks," is published in the IEEE Network.

Jan. 2025: Serving as Symposium/Track Chair for "Emerging Technologies, 6G and Beyond" at the IEEE VTC-Fall 2025, Chengdu, China.

Jan. 2025: Keynote Speaker on "Intelligent and Green Integrated Sensing and Communications," IEEE WCNC 2025 Workshop, Milan, Italy.

Jan. 2025: Invited Speaker at the BT Workshop on Network Evolution, Security, and Emerging Technologies, London, UK.

Jan. 2025: Invited Speaker on “Role of AI in making 6G beyond just Communications,” at the Shenzhen Peng Cheng Laboratory, China.

Jan. 2025: Paper "A Tutorial on Non-Terrestrial Networks: Towards Global and Ubiquitous 6G Connectivity," is accepted for publication in the Foundations and Trends in Networking.

Dec. 2024: Paper "Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G: Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

Dec. 2024: Paper "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Aerial Nonterrestrial Networks: An Intelligent Synergy With Deep Reinforcement Learning," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.

Dec. 2024: Paper "RIS-Empowered 3D DoA Estimation of Multiple Aerial Targets via Deep Reinforcement Learning," is accepted for publication at the IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy.

Dec. 2024: Awarded with the Best Editor Award 2024 for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Dec. 2024: Awarded as the Exemplary Editor in 2024 for the IEEE Communications Letters.

Dec. 2024: Serving as Founding Member of the IEEE Communications Society's Special Interest Group (SIG) on Fluid Antenna Systems.

Dec. 2024: Book on Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies (1st Edition) is published by Elsevier - Edited by Aryan Kaushik.

Dec. 2024: Book Chapter "RIS-aided Low Complexity Waveform Design for Joint Sensing and Communications," is published in the book Intelligent Spectrum Management: Towards 6G, Wiley (1st Edition).

Dec. 2024: Book Chapter “ISAC Standardization and Synergies with Key Technology Enablers: Overview and Future Prospects,” is published in the book Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies, Elsevier (1st Edition).

Dec. 2024: Book Chapter "Self-interference Suppression Techniques in Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems," is published in the book Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies, Elsevier (1st Edition).

Dec. 2024: Book Chapter “Flexible Hybrid Precoding for Integrated Sensing and Communications,” is published in the book Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies, Elsevier (1st Edition).

Dec. 2024: Book Chapter “Introduction to Integrated Sensing and Communications for the Next Generation of Wireless Connectivity,” is published in the book Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies, Elsevier (1st Edition).

Dec. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 13: Digital Twins, Context-Aided Communications and 6G Technologies," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Dec. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 12: Fluid Antennas for 6G and Beyond," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Dec. 2024: Keynote Speaker on "Green and Sustainable Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024 Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa.

Nov. 2024: Paper "Random Access Optimization with Generative Adversarial Networks in Industrial IoT using Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Approach," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Nov. 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Signal Processing for Integrated and Intelligent 6G Connectivity," at the IEEE ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India.

Nov. 2024: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Empowering Robotics with 6G: Connectivity, Intelligence, and Beyond," in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2024-25).

Nov. 2024: Serving as Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Standardization and Integration of Blockchain and Federated Learning for Decentralized Edge Intelligence in Next-Generation IoT Security," in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2024-25).

Nov. 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "2nd Workshop on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks," at the IEEE INFOCOM 2025, London, UK.

Nov. 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications: Latest Trends, Key Synergies and New Opportunities," at the IEEE CSCN 2024, Belgrade, Serbia.

Nov. 2024: Invited Panel Speaker on "Emergence of AI/ML in Standards – Where are we and where are we going?," at the IEEE CSCN 2024, Belgrade, Serbia.

Nov. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 11: 6G: The Way Forward with Important KPIs and Technologies," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Oct. 2024: Serving as Chair of the IEEE Communications Society's Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI) on Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory.

Oct. 2024: Paper "An Overview of Intelligent Meta-surfaces for 6G and Beyond: Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

Oct. 2024: Serving as Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Wireless Technologies for 6G and Beyond: Applications, Implementations, and Standardization," in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2024-25).

Oct. 2024: Paper "Wireless Federated Learning over UAV-enabled Integrated Sensing and Communications," is accepted for publication at the IEEE CSCN 2024, Belgrade, Serbia.

Oct. 2024: Paper "Rethinking Federated Learning: An Adversarial Perspective on Global vs. Local Learning for Load Forecasting," is accepted for publication at the IEEE CSCN 2024, Belgrade, Serbia.

Oct. 2024: Paper "From Federated Learning to Quantum Federated Learning for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE CSCN 2024, Belgrade, Serbia.

Oct. 2024: Paper "Integrated AI and 6G driven e-Health: Enabling Design, Challenges and Future Prospects," is accepted for publication at the IEEE CSCN 2024, Belgrade, Serbia.

Oct. 2024: Distinguished Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," IEEE ComSoc 2024 Workshop on Emerging 6G Technologies, London, UK. 

Oct. 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G," at the IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy.

Oct. 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy.

Oct. 2024: Distinguished Speaker on "6G beyond only Communications: What and How?," at the IEEE Week 2024, IEEE Student Branch Tezpur University, India.

Oct. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 10: one6G's Activities and Views on 6G Framework Technologies," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Oct. 2024: Serving as Organizer and Chair of the "IEEE ComSoc 2024 Workshops Series on Emerging 6G Technologies," by IEEE ComSoc ETI-RIS, and IEEE ComSoc UK and Ireland Chapter, London, UK.

Sept. 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "4th Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G Connectivity," at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Sept. 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "7th International Workshop on Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory," at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Sept. 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Network," at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Sept. 2024: Serving as Publicity Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Sept. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory, and Synergies with 6G Usage Scenarios" at the one6G Next Generation MIMO Seminar.

Sept. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Envisioning 6G beyond only Communications: Role of Sensing, AI, and NTN," at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Sept. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 9: 6G Testbeds and Take on Key Enabling Technologies," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Sept. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 8: Integrated Sensing and Communications: Industry Perspective," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Sept. 2024: Paper "Exploring Reflecting Phases in RIS-Assisted Indexed Multiplexing for 6G IoT Applications," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024 Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa.

Sept. 2024: Serving as Elections Committee Member for the IEEE Communications Society UK & Ireland Chapter.

Aug. 2024: Paper "Quantum-Enhanced DRL Optimization for DoA Estimation and Task Offloading in ISAC Systems," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

Aug. 2024: Paper "Rate Splitting Multiple Access for GEO-LEO Coexisting Satellite Systems: Traffic-Aware Rate Maximization Precoder Design," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Aug. 2024: Invited Panel Speaker on Industry Panel "6G Empowering the Verticals of 2030," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.

Aug. 2024: Invited Panel Speaker on Industry Panel "Enhancing Wireless Systems with AI-driven Semantic Communication," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.

Aug. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications: A Tale of 6G Innovation beyond just Communications," at the Tech Fusion 2024 Summer School, London Digital Twin Research Centre, Middlesex University, UK.

Aug. 2024: Invited Speaker on "6G, beyond just Connectivity," at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India.

Aug. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 7: Emerging 6G Technologies," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Aug. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 6: Machine Learning & AI based Wireless Connectivity for 6G and Beyond," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Aug. 2024: Serving as Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Satellite Communications for 6G," in the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2024-25).

July 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Towards Integrated and Intelligent 6G: Key Synergies, Usage Scenarios and New Opportunities," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.

July 2024: Paper "Fractional Programming Strategy for Rate-Energy Optimization in RIS-assisted SWIPT IoT Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.

July 2024: Serving as Publicity Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE ICMLCN 2025, Barcelona, Spain.

July 2024: Keynote Speaker on "6G beyond only Communications: What do We Really Need?" at the 6G Conference 2024, Istanbul, Turkey.

July 2024: Invited Speaker on "Bridging the Gap to 6G beyond only Communications: Evolution from Triangular to Hexagon Framework," at the one6G Summit 2024, Valencia, Spain.

July 2024: Distinguished Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond" at the IEEE ComSoc, one6G and IHU's Next Generation Communications Training School and Research Colloquium, Litohoro, Greece.

July 2024: Keynote Speaker on "6G beyond only Communications: Key Technology Enablers," at the IEEE PIMRC 2024 Workshop, Valencia, Spain.

July 2024: Invited Panel Speaker on "Road Towards 6G: Key Considerations and Enablers," at the IEEE WINCOM 2024, Leeds, UK.

July 2024: Paper "Secrecy Rate Maximization for Active RIS-aided Robust Uplink NOMA Communications," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

July 2024: Paper "Adversarial Imitation Learning-based Network for Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation," is accepted for publication in the Machine Vision and Applications.

July 2024: Paper "Active RIS-aided Uplink for Robust and Secure Multi-User Private Industrial Network," is accepted for publication at the IEEE VTC-Fall 2024, Washington D.C., USA.

June 2024: Paper "Spatial Multiplexing in Near-Field Line-of-Sight MIMO Communications: Paraxial and Non-Paraxial Deployments," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

June 2024: Paper "Collaborative Task Offloading Optimization for Satellite Mobile Edge Computing Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

June 2024: Project "Green and Intelligent 6G Connectivity: AI and Holographic Surfaces-assisted Integrated Sensing and Communications" with industrial partners is funded by the UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund [PI: A. Kaushik].

June 2024: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Unveiling the Cosmic Connection: AI's Pivotal Role in Bridging Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks," in the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (2024-25).

June 2024: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks," in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2024-25).

June 2024: Paper "Green UAV-enabled Internet-of-Things Network with AI-assisted NOMA for Disaster Management," is accepted for publication at the IEEE PIMRC 2024 Workshop, Valencia, Spain.

June 2024: Paper "On Outage Performance of Backscatter NOMA System Under Imperfect DLI Cancellation," is accepted for publication at the IEEE PIMRC 2024 Workshop, Valencia, Spain.

June 2024: Invited Panel Speaker on Industry Panel "6G Empowered Robotics: Unleashing the Potential of Next-Generation Connectivity," at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

June 2024: Invited Speaker on "Key 6G Synergies with Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory," at the IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop, Denver, CO, USA.

June 2024: Serving as Publicity Chair of "Workshop on Integrated Wireless Networking and Computing," at the CNSM 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.

May 2024: Paper "Energy-efficient Semantic Communication for Aerial-aided Edge Networks," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

May 2024: Paper "Advancing IIoT with Over-the-Air Federated Learning: The Role of Iterative Magnitude Pruning," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

May 2024: Invited Panel Speaker on "Revolutionising Connectivity: Unleashing the Power of 6G for Robotics," at the IEEE MeditCom 2024, Madrid, Spain. 

May 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Towards Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G Connectivity," at the IEEE BlackSeaCom 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia.

May 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.

May 2024: Invited Panel Speaker on "Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G Connectivity: Trends and Challenges," at the IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop, Denver, CO, USA.

May 2024: Invited Speaker on "A Roadmap to 6G Wireless Connectivity," at the Peking University, China.

May 2024: Invited Speaker on "Key Enabling Technologies for Integrated and Intelligent 6G Wireless Connectivity," at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

May 2024: Invited Speaker on "Integrated and Intelligent Wireless Connectivity: Essential Techniques for 6G and Beyond," at the Dalian University of Technology, China.

May 2024: Invited Speaker on “Integrated and Intelligent 6G and Beyond Wireless Connectivity,” at the Shenzhen Peng Cheng Laboratory, China.

May 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 5: Non-Terrestrial Networks: From the eyes of Standardization and Technology Trends," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

May 2024: TC Innovation Support Project 2024 on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces is funded by the IEEE Communications Society [PI: V. Sciancalepore, M. Di Renzo, A. Kaushik].

Apr. 2024: Paper "Integrated Sensing and Communications for IoT: Synergies with Key 6G Technology Enablers," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

Apr. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond," at the 17th FutureWei University Days Workshop 2024, Futurewei Technologies, Schaumburg (Chicago), IL, USA.

Apr. 2024: Panel Chair on "Integrated Sensing And Communications for 6G and Beyond: Key Synergies, Use Cases and New Opportunities," at the IEEE PIMRC 2024, Valenica, Spain.

Apr. 2024: Serving as Member-at-Large of the IEEE Communications Society On-Line Content Board from 2024-25.

Apr. 2024: Video Podcast "Episode 4: Metaprism and Smart Skin based Wireless Connectivity," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN). 

Apr. 2024: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks," in the IEEE Network Magazine (2024).

Apr. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Integrated and Intelligent Wireless Connectivity: A Roadmap to 6G," at the ShanghaiTech University, China.

Apr. 2024: Invited Speaker on Public Safety Technology Initiative at the IEEE WF-PST 2024, Washington D.C., USA.

Apr. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications Empowered 6G Robotics," at the one6G 6G-Robo Seminar.

Apr. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Emerging Technologies for 6G," at the 5G and Beyond Concepts and Modeling: Theory, Applications, and Simulations Course, NIT Jalandhar, India.

Mar. 2024: Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, supported by the European Partnership Development Fellowship (2024).

Mar. 2024: Invited Speaker on "Integrated and Intelligent 6G Connectivity," at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Mar. 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Integrated Sensing & Communications with Intelligent Metasurfaces: Synergies for 6G & Beyond," at the IEEE MeditCom 2024, Madrid, Spain.

Mar. 2024: Paper "Traffic-Aware Throughput Maximization for Coexistence of LEO and GEO Satellite Systems," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop, Denver, CO, USA.

Mar. 2024: Award Nominee for the Sussex Education Awards 2024 in two categories: "Teaching to Disrupt Award" and "Inclusive Sussex Award".

Mar. 2024: Papers "Indexed Multiple Access with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: The Reflection Tuning Potential," and "RIS-Empowered LEO Satellite Networks for 6G: Promising Usage Scenarios and Future Directions," are accepted to be presented at the IEEE Communications Magazine Track, IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

Feb. 2024: Serving as General Chair for the "3rd Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G," at the IEEE PIMRC 2024, Valenica, Spain.

Feb. 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Synergizing Integrated and Intelligent 6G Connectivity using ISAC and RIS," at the IEEE VTC-Spring 2024, Singapore.

Feb. 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Deep Learning for Network Optimization and Resource Allocation in 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE VTC-Spring 2024, Singapore.

Feb. 2024: Paper "RIS-Empowered LEO Satellite Networks for 6G: Promising Usage Scenarios and Future Directions," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Magazine.

Feb. 2024: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, and of the Miniseries on AI for IoT.

Feb. 2024: Serving as Panel Chair and Travel Grant Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE BlackSeaCom 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Jan. 2024: Paper "Mobility-aware Split-Federated with Transfer Learning for Vehicular Semantic Communication Networks," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Jan. 2024: Tutorial Speaker on "Non-Terrestrial Networks IoT: Paving the way towards 6G Global Connectivity," at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

Jan. 2024: Paper "Performance Analysis of Receive Diversity RIS and RPM Assisted Index Modulated Communication System," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

Jan. 2024: Paper "Synergizing Airborne Non-Terrestrial Networks and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Aided 6G IoT," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

Jan. 2024: Guest Editorial "Technical Advancements in NTN-Assisted Internet-of-Things: Global Connectivity from the Sky," is published in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

Jan. 2024: Video "Episode 3: Non-Terrestrial Networks and Rate-Splitting Multiple Access" is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN).

Dec. 2023: Paper "Towards Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G: Key Enabling Technologies, Standardization, and Challenges," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

Dec. 2023: Paper "Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided Index Modulation with Greedy Detection over Rician Fading Channels," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Dec. 2023: Paper "RIS-Assisted 6G Wireless Communications: A Novel Statistical Framework in the Presence of Direct Channel," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Letters.

Dec. 2023: Tutorial Speaker on "Bridging the Gap: Machine Learning and Wireless Innovation," at the IEEE ICMLCN 2024, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dec. 2023: Awarded with the Best Editor Award 2023 for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Dec. 2023: Awarded as the Exemplary Editor in 2023 for the IEEE Communications Letters.

Dec. 2023: Serving as Symposium Chair for "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces & Smart Environments" at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Dec. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Key Enabling Technologies for 6G: Are We on Right Track for Next G Evolution?" at the IEEE ANTS 2023 Workshop, Jaipur, India.

Dec. 2023: Keynote Speaker on "Intelligent and Integrated 6G Connectivity using RIS and ISAC" at the Shenzhen Aerospace Technology Innovation Think Tank Forum, Shenzhen Institute of Beihang University, China.

Nov. 2023: Video Podcast "Episode 2: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and Holographic MIMO (H-MIMO)," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN).

Nov. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "2nd Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G Networks," at the IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai, UAE.

Nov. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G," at the IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai, UAE.

Nov. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Ultra high data rate enabled neXt Generation Hyper-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications for futuristic 6G," at the IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai, UAE.

Nov. 2023: Associated as member of the one6G Association, a consortium of global industry and academic working groups on 6G.

Nov. 2023: Serving as Organizer and Chair of the "IEEE ComSoc 2023 Workshop on 6G Technologies for Global Connectivity," by IEEE ComSoc ETI-BNC, and IEEE ComSoc UK and Ireland Chapter.

Nov. 2023: Paper "Channel Estimation and Hybrid Precoding Design for Joint Radar Communication," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ANTS 2023 Workshop, Jaipur, India.

Nov. 2023: Serving as Keynote and Panels Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE WINCOM 2024, Leeds, UK.

Oct. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Key Enabling Technologies and Use Cases for 6G and Robotics" at the one6G Summit 2023, Munich, Germany.

Oct. 2023: Invited Panel Speaker on "NTN IoT and Use Cases for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE Globecom 2023 Workshop, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sept. 2023: Video Podcast "Episode 1: Non-Terrestrial Networks for Global Connectivity," is published by the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN).

Sept. 2023: Paper "Indexed Multiple Access with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: The Reflection Tuning Potential," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Magazine.

Sept. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

Sept. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "6th International Workshop on Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory," at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

Sept. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "6th Workshop on Ultra high data rate enabled neXt Generation Hyper-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications for futuristic 6G Networks," at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

Sept. 2023: Invited Panel Speaker on "Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G NTN Connectivity," at the Annual Symposium on Digital Connectivity and Innovation for Sustainable Futures, University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Sept. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Intelligent, Multi-functional and Global Connectivity for 6G," at the Shenzhen Institute of Beihang University, China.

Aug. 2023: Invited Panel Speaker on "Electromagnetic Information Theory" at the IEEE PIMRC 2023 Workshop, Toronto, Canada.

Aug. 2023: Serving as Senior Editor in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN).

Aug. 2023: TC Innovation Support Project 2023 on Backhaul/Fronthaul Networking and Communications is funded by the IEEE Communications Society [PI: M. Z. Shakir, A. Kaushik].

July 2023: Invited Panel Member for the UK EPSRC Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Prioritisation Panel 2023.

July 2023: Tutorial Speaker on "Non-Terrestrial Networks for the Next Generation Global Connectivity," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

July 2023: Tutorial Speaker on "Interplay of AI and Wireless for 6G IoT," at the IEEE Meditcom 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

July 2023: Invited Paper "Optimizing Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for MmWave Communications in IoT Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE PIMRC 2023 Workshop, Toronto, Canada.

July 2023: Paper "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Assisted Communication Under Different CSI Assumptions," is accepted for publication at the IEEE MeditCom 2023 Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

June 2023: Invited Paper "On the Performance of RIS-aided OFDM-Based LEO Satellite Networks with Doppler Effects," is accepted for publication at the IEEE SPAWC 2023, Shanghai, China.

June 2023: Invited Panel Speaker on "Emerging Technologies for Earthquake Search and Rescue Operations" at the IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.

June 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "2nd Workshop on Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications," at the IEEE CAMAD 2023, Edinburgh, UK.

May 2023: Invited Panel Speaker on Industry Track "What is 6G" at the IEEE VTC-Spring 2023, Florence, Italy.

May 2023: Invited Panel Speaker on "Mega-Constellation Non-Terrestrial Network for 6G" at the EuCNC and 6G Summit 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden.

May 2023: Invited Speaker on "Towards 5G Advanced and 6G Wireless Networking: Key Technology Enablers," at the Huawei Vision Forum 2023, Huawei Central Research Institute, London, UK. 

May 2023: Serving as PhD External Examiner at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain (2023).

May 2023: Tutorial Speaker on "AI and Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA)-Aided Non-Terrestrial Networks," at the IEEE SmartGridComm 2023, Glasgow, UK.

May 2023: Invited Speaker on "Towards 5G Advanced and 6G Wireless Communications: Key Technology Enablers," at the University of Bologna, Italy.

May 2023: Invited Speaker on "6G Communications: Smart, Multi-Function and Global Connectivity," at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India.

May 2023: Article "Integrated Sensing and Communications for Evolution of Next Generation Networks," published in the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN).

May 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "5th International Workshop on Electromagnetic Information Theory (EIT)," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

May 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

May 2023: Serving as Special Sessions Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE ICMLCN 2024, Stockholm, Sweden.

Apr. 2023: Tutorial Speaker on "Non-Terrestrial Networks for Global Connectivity," at the IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.

Apr. 2023: Serving as Publication Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai, UAE.

Apr. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Key Technology Enablers for 6G: AI and Intelligent Metasurfaces," at the IEEE MeditCom 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Apr. 2023: Serving as Tutorial Chair in the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE WF-PST 2024, Washington D.C., USA.

Apr. 2023: Serving as Symposium/Track Chair for "Public Safety in Communication and Networking" at the IEEE WF-PST 2024, Washington D.C., USA.

Apr. 2023: Paper "Timely Data Collection for UAVs with a Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in IoT Networks," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Sensors Journal.

Mar. 2023: Tutorial Speaker on "Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G," at the EuCNC and 6G Summit 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Mar. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Towards 5G Advanced and 6G Wireless Communications: Key Technology Enablers," at the 16th FutureWei University Days Workshop 2023, Futurewei Technologies, Schaumburg (Chicago), IL, USA.

Mar. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on 6G-Envisioned Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces," at the IEEE PIMRC 2023, Toronto, Canada.

Mar. 2023: Serving as Publication Chair in the Organizing Committee of the IEEE ICMLCN 2024, Stockholm, Sweden.

Mar. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Advances in Intelligent Metasurfaces, Non-Terrestrial Networks and Integrated Sensing-Communications," at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Mar. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Intelligent and Green Non-Terrestrial Networks" at the International Conference on Advanced Sensing and Intelligent Systems 2023, Kunming, China.

Mar. 2023: Paper "Millimeter Wave Channel Estimation for Lens based Hybrid MIMO with Low Resolution ADCs," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2023 Workshop, Rome, Italy.

Feb. 2023: Project "Net Zero and Sustainable 6G: Communications, Sensing and Computing" with industrial partners is funded by the UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund [PI: A. Kaushik].

Feb. 2023: Serving as Co-Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Technical Advancements in NTN-Assisted Internet-of-Things: Global Connectivity from Sky," in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (2023-24).

Feb. 2023: Paper "Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Distributed Computation Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Feb. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Emerging Topics of Non-Terrestrial Networks, Intelligent Metasurfaces, and Integrated Sensing and Communications," at the H2020 SEED Project Workshop.

Feb. 2023: Keynote Speaker at the IEEE WCNC 2023 Workshop on Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications.

Feb. 2023: Invited Speaker on "6G-Envisioned Intelligent Metasurfaces, Integrated Sensing and Communications, and Satellite Networking," at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Feb. 2023: Invited Speaker on "Intelligent Metasurfaces and Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G" at the IEEE Information Theory Society Chapter Bangalore, Bengaluru, India.

Jan. 2023: Paper "Covariance-Based Hybrid Beamforming for Spectrally Efficient Joint Radar-Communications," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy.

Jan. 2023: Article "Non-Terrestrial Networks: Have We Found that Ultimate Catalyst for Global Connectivity in 6G?," published in the IEEE Communications Technology News (CTN).

Jan. 2023: Paper "Subset Selection Based RIS-Aided Beamforming for Joint Radar-Communications," is accepted for publication at the IEEE WCNC 2023 Workshop, Glasgow, UK.

Jan. 2023: Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking 2023, Chennai, India.

Dec. 2022: Paper "Satellite Edge Computing with Collaborative Computation Offloading: An Intelligent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Approach," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Dec. 2022: Serving as Symposium Chair for "Backhaul/Fronthaul Networking and Communications Symposium" at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

Dec. 2022: Invited Speaker on "Recent Advances in 6G ISAC: Index Modulation and Spectrally Efficient Design," at the Shenzhen Institute of Beihang University, China.

Nov. 2022: Tutorial Speaker on "Internet-of-Space-Things: Advanced Global Connectivity for 6G," at the IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Nov. 2022: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Nov. 2022: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G," at the IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Nov. 2022: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications," at the IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Oct. 2022: Invited Speaker on "Low Resolution DAC/ADC Quantization and Multiple Access for 6G," and "Introduction to 6G Technology: Machine Learning and Wireless Communications," at the Shenzhen Institute of Beihang University, China.

Oct. 2022: Invited Speaker on "Advances in 6G Integrated Sensing and Communications," at the Lancaster University, UK.

Oct. 2022: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IET Networks.

Sept. 2022: Invited Speaker on "Integrated Sensing and Communications for Green 6G," at the Shenzhen Institute of Beihang University, China.

Aug. 2022: Serving as Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Reconfigurable Holographic MIMO Surfaces for 6G Wireless," in the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Aug. 2022: Paper "Pre-scaling and Codebook Design for Joint Radar and Communication Based on Index Modulation," is accepted for publication at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

June 2022: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Communications Letters.

June 2022: Project "Green and Autonomous UAVs for Advanced Airborne Ecosystem" with industrial partners is funded by the UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund [PI: A. Kaushik].

June 2022: Paper "Energy Efficient Dual-Functional Radar-Communication: Rate Splitting Multiple Access, Low-Resolution DACs, and RF Chain Selection," is accepted for publication in the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

June 2022: Serving as TPC Member of WC Symposium, and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces & Smart Environments SAC at IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy.

June 2022: Project "Intelligent Metasurfaces and AI for 6G Wireless" for summer internship under the International Junior Research Associate scheme [PI: A. Kaushik]. 

May 2022: Invited Speaker on "Green 6G with Integrated Radar Sensing and Communications," at the AI Convergence Network Colloquium, Ajou University, South Korea.

May 2022: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Reconfigurable Holographic and Intelligent Surfaces for Green 6G Sensing, Communication and Networking," at the IEEE SECON 2022.

Apr. 2022: Serving as General Chair for the "International Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Sensing, Localization, Computing and Communications," at the IEEE PIMRC 2022.

Apr. 2022: Paper "Dynamic Resource Management for Neighbor-based VNF Placement in Decentralized Satellite Networks," is accepted for publication at the IEEE 6GNet 2022, Paris, France.

Apr. 2022: Invited paper "Towards 6G: Spectrally Efficient Joint Radar and Communication with RF Selection, Interference and Hardware Impairments," is accepted for publication in the IET Signal Processing. 

Mar. 2022: Paper “Dynamic Resource Allocation for Virtual Network Function Placement in Satellite Edge Clouds,” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Mar. 2022: Serving as Symposium/Track Chair for "Emerging Technologies, Standards and Applications" at the IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Mar. 2022: Serving as Editor in the Editorial Board of the IET Signal Processing. 

Mar. 2022: Serving as Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Signal Processing for Green and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Aided 6G," in the IET Signal Processing.

Feb. 2022: Project "DISCOfor6G: Design of Integrated Sensing-Communications and Optimization" is funded by the Research Opportunities Fund [PI: A. Kaushik].

Jan. 2022: Paper "Green Joint Radar-Communications: RF Selection with Low Resolution DACs and Hybrid Precoding," is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea.

Jan. 2022: Paper “Virtual Network Function Placement in Satellite Edge Computing with a Potential Game Approach,” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

Jan. 2022: Paper "Waveform Design for Joint-Radar Communications with Low Complexity Analog Components," is accepted for publication at the IEEE JC&S 2022, Seefeld, Austria.

Sept. 2021: Invited Speaker on "Hardware Efficient Architectures and Waveform Design for Joint Radar-Communications," at the Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece.

July 2021: Serving as a TPC Member of the Wireless Communications Symposium at the IEEE ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea.

June 2021: Invited Speaker on "Hardware Efficient Architectures and Waveform Design for Joint Radar-Communications," at the UCL-KTH Royal Institute of Technology Machine Learning and DFRC Workshop.

Mar. 2021: Paper "An Energy Efficient Approach for Service Chaining Placement in Satellite Ground Station Networks"  is accepted for publication at the IEEE IWCMC 2021.

Mar. 2021: Workshop paper “Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Joint Radar-Communications with Low-Resolution DACs,” is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2021.

Feb. 2021: Paper "Performance Analysis of NOMA Multicast Systems Based on Rateless Codes with Delay Constraints" is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Jan. 2021: Paper "Hardware Efficient Joint Radar-Communications with Hybrid Precoding and RF Chain Optimization” is accepted for publication at the IEEE ICC 2021.

Dec. 2020: Paper "Service Chaining Placement Based on Satellite Mission Planning in Ground Station Networks” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

Nov. 2020: Invited paper "Radio-Frequency Chain Selection for Energy and Spectral Efficiency Maximization in Hybrid Beamforming under Hardware Imperfections" is accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

Oct. 2020: Invited paper "Energy Efficiency Maximization in Millimeter Wave Hybrid MIMO Systems for 5G and Beyond" presented at the IEEE ComNet 2020.

Oct. 2020: Paper "Hierarchical Multi-Agent Optimization for Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing"  is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Sept. 2020: Invited paper "Joint Bit Allocation and Hybrid Beamforming Optimization for Energy Efficient Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems" is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 

Sept. 2020: Invited Speaker on "Energy Efficient Joint Radar-Communication System with Hybrid Beamforming" at the Sensors Systems and Circuits Group, University College London, UK.

July 2020: Serving as a TPC Member of the Wireless Communications Symposium at the IEEE ICC 2021.

July 2020: Serving as a Conference Champion at the IEEE PIMRC 2020.

July 2020: Paper "Design of Segmented CRC-Aided Spinal Codes for IoT Applications" accepted for publication in the IET Communications.

June 2020: Paper “Performance Analysis of Rateless-Coded Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access over Nakagami-m Fading Channels with Delay Constrains,” presented at the IEEE ICC 2020.

June 2020: Poster "Energy Efficient and Low Complexity Joint Radar-Communications with Hybrid Beamforming," presented at the PAINLESS Summer School 2020.

May 2020: “Five Questions with Aryan Kaushik” appeared on the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering's news blog.

Feb. 2020: Appointed as Research Fellow at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK.

Jan. 2020: Completed visit at the Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Lab, Imperial College London, UK, started Sept. 2019.

Dec. 2019: Paper "Energy Efficient ADC Bit Allocation and Hybrid Combining for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems" presented at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA.