Future of Communications II
Annual Workshop of the Villum Investigator Grant "WATER"
Organized by: Connectivity Section @ Aalborg University
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023
Organized by: Connectivity Section @ Aalborg University
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023
Join us at the Second Edition of the Annual "Future of Communications II" Workshop, hosted by Aalborg University's Connectivity Section under the Villum Investigator Grant "WATER."
This one-day event unites leading researchers, engineers, and industry experts to explore the evolving landscape of communication engineering, bridging fields like computing, energy, machine learning, and quantum computing.
You'll also witness a glimpse of the Connectivity Section's research.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Semantic Communications
Machine Learning in Wireless Communications
Reflective Intelligent Surfaces
Quantum Communications
Satellite Communications
ORAN and Practical Aspects
Registration is FREE with COFFEEs and LUNCH included.
Registration can be done by filling out this form.
Deadline: December 04th, 2023 (FIRM)
*The workshop will be held both in-person and online. In-person vacancies are limited;
when maximum capacity is reached, only online vacancies will be available.
All the relevant information for in-person and online participation will be given by email, using the address provided in the registration form.
For any difficulties and queries, contact fasa@es.aau.dk
VENUE
FRB7H Auditorium (classroom 1.002)
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, Aalborg Øst, 9220, DK
Find Your Way to the Venue
08:30 Registration and Coffee
09:00 Opening and Presentation of the Connectivity Section
Presenter: Petar Popovski (Connectivity Section)
09:15 Keynote: "AWS for Telecoms" (45 min.)
Presenter: Federico Boccardi (Head of Connectivity Policy Europe, Amazon Web Services)
10:00 "Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communications" (25 min.)
Presenters: Anders E. Kalør, Shashi R. Pandey, Radosław Kotaba, Junya Shiraishi (Connectivity Section)
10:25 "MacKay-Neal Codes for High-Speed Wireless Communication Links" (25 min.)
Presenter: Gianluigi Liva (Institute of Communications and Navigation, DLR)
10:50 Coffee Break
11:05 "Communication, Localization and Security" (25 min.)
Presenter: Kimmo Kansanen (Department of Electronic Systems, NTNU)
11:30 "Intelligent Surfaces, Communication and Sensing" (25 min.)
Presenters: Kun Chen Hu, Martin V. Vejling, Robin J. William, Victor Croisfelt (Connectivity Section)
11:55 "Channel Charting: From Manifold Learning to System Integration" (25 min.)
Presenter: Zoran Utkovski (Dep. of Wireless Communications and Networks, Heinrich Hertz, Institute Berlin)
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch Break
13:20 Keynote: "Massive Integrated Communication and Sensing" (45 min.)
Presenter: Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, IMEC)
14:05 "Toward space-based global connected intelligence" (25 min.)
Presenters: Rasmus S. Frederiksen, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Fabio Saggese (Connectivity Section)
14:30 "Trustworthy Quantum Technologies" (25 min.)
Presenter: Laura Mančinska (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen)
14:55 Coffee Break
15:10 "Quantum Communication and Computing" (25 min.)
Presenters: René B. Christensen, Kristian S. Jensen, Petar Popovski (Connectivity Section)
15:35 "Fast Context Adaptation in Cost-Aware Continual Learning" (25 min.)
Presenter: Federico Chiariotti (Department of Information Engineering - DEI, University of Padova)
16:00 "Experimentation with Open-RAN" (25 min.)
Presenters: Andreas Casparsen, Tobias Kallehauge (Connectivity Section)
16:30 "Integration of AI in Communication and Computing Systems"
Moderator: Petar Poposvki
Panelists: Istvan Kovács (Nokia Denmark), Torben B. Pedersen (Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University), Zheng-Hua Tan (Aalborg University), Dejan Vukobratovic (University of Novi Sad), and Germán Corrales Madueño (Keysight Technologies Denmark)
17:30 End of the workshop
Presenter Profiles
Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS and a Chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication and communication theory.
Federico Boccardi is Head of Connectivity Policy for Europe in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Before AWS, he held senior positions in Ofcom (the UK communications regulator), where he contributed to a very diverse set of areas, including defining the spectrum strategy for 5G, leading the studies to open a new Wi-Fi band at 5 GHz, and coordinating the emerging technology functions. Before Ofcom, he worked in Vodafone and Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent), where he made key contributions for the theoretical development of wireless communications and their applications to 4G and 5G systems. He received a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, and a Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from the Oxford Saïd Business School. He is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol, a Fellow of the IET and a Member of the Advisory Board at UKTIN.
Sofie Pollin is a professor at KU Leuven focusing on wireless communication systems. Before that, she worked at Imec and UC Berkeley, and she is currently still a principal member of the technical staff at Imec. Her research centers around wireless networks that require networks that are ever more dense, heterogeneous, battery-powered, and spectrum-constrained. Her research interests are cell-free networks, integrated communication and sensing, and non-terrestrial networks.
Gianluigi Liva received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Since 2003 he has been investigating channel codes for high-data rate Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) missions. From 2004 to 2005, he was involved in research at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Since 2006, he has been with the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he currently leads the Information Transmission Group. In 2010, he has been appointed as a Lecturer of channel coding with the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT), Technical University of Munich (TUM), and since 2014 he has been a Lecturer of channel codes with iterative decoding with LNT, TUM. His main research interests include satellite communications, random access techniques, and error control coding. Since 2020, he serves as Associate Editor in Coding and Information Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Kimmo Kansanen is professor for wireless communications and signal processing and the leader for the signal processing group at the Department of Electronic Systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He received his M.Sc (EE) and Dr. Tech. degrees from University of Oulu, Finland in 1998 and 2005, respectively, where he was a research scientist and project manager at the Centre for Wireless Communications. His research interests are within wireless communications and signal processing. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Zoran Utkovski is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, Germany, where he heads the Smart Wireless Connectivity Group. He received a Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering (2000) from Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, an M.Sc. degree (with distinction) from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden (2004), and a Dr. Ing. degree (summa cum laude) from Ulm University, Germany (2010). He is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship and was a visiting scholar at New Jersey Institute of Technology and University Carlos III in Madrid. His research interests are in communication theory, machine learning, communication security, and complex systems theory.
Laura Mančinska is an Associate Professor at QMATH, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Her main research focus is the theory of quantum information and computing with the goal of identifying new information processing tasks where quantum technologies hold an advantage over conventional ones. She is particularly interested in the phenomenon of quantum entanglement and how it can be leveraged for operational and cryptographic tasks. In her research she combines tools from different areas including complexity theory, optimization, and graph theory. She currently leads a Villum Young Investigator project on Trustworthy Quantum Technologies and an ERC Starting Grant project on Quantum Information Processing with Interacting Parties.
Federico Chiariotti is currently an assistant professor at the University of Padova. From 2020 to 2022, he was a postdoc and then an assistant professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He received his PhD in information engineering from University of Padova in 2019, where he also spent a year as a postdoc. In 2017 and 2018, he was a Research Intern with Nokia Bell Labs, Dublin. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers on wireless networks and the use of artificial intelligence techniques to improve their performance. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at several conferences, including the IEEE INFOCOM WCNEE Workshop in 2020. His current research interests include semantic and effective communication, transport layer protocols, Age of Information, latency-oriented networking, and bike sharing systems.
Panelist Profiles
István Z. Kovács, Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Denmark, currently works on standardisation for machine learning-driven radio-resource management and radio-connectivity enhancements for 5G and 6G systems.
Dejan Vukobratovic received his PhD at the University of Novi Sad in 2008. During 2009-2010, he was Marie Curie Individual Fellow at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK.Since 2019, he is full professor at the University of Novi Sad. He published over 150 papers in leading IEEE conferences and journals. His research interests are in information and communication theory, coding techniques, wireless communication systems, IoT and machine learning. He served as a TPC chair at IEEE VTC Spring 2020 and IEEE SmartGridComm 2022,and as a Symposium chair at IEEE SmartGridComm 2021 and IEEE ICC 2023.
Torben Bach Pedersen is a Professor with the Center for Data-Intensive Systems (Daisy), Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include predictive, prescriptive, and extreme-scale data analytics with digital energy as the main application area. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor, a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from TU Dresden.
Zheng-Hua Tan is a Professor with the Department of Electronic Systems and a Co-Head of the Centre for Acoustic Signal Processing Research at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is also a Co-Lead of the Pioneer Centre for AI, Denmark. He received the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, USA, an Associate Professor with SJTU, Shanghai, China, and a postdoctoral fellow with KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, noise-robust speech processing, multimodal signal processing, and social robotics. He was the elected Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of STSP Inaugural Special Series on AI in Signal and Data Science – Toward Explainable, Reliable, and Sustainable Machine Learning and has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
Dr. Germán Corrales Madueño (male) is a Senior Researcher Engineer at Keysight Technologies Denmark. He is currently working as the cluster lead for digital twin and AI technologies for 6G and coordinating several internal and external research programs. He received his M.Sc. in mobile communications and his Ph.D. in reliable radio access for massive machine-to-machine (M2M) communications from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, where he was responsible for the M2M laboratory. His research interests include 6G, ORAN, Digital Twin, AI-AIR Interface, 5G, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Dr. Madueño has served as a Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Journal On Selected Areas in Communications. He also served as a Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, and various IEEE conferences. He was awarded by the Danish Engineering Society (IDA) for his work on IoT.