Emil Björnson (S'07-M'12-SM'17) received the M.S. degree in engineering mathematics from Lund University, Sweden, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he held a joint post-doctoral position at the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPELEC, France, and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He joined Linköping University, Sweden, in 2014, where he is currently an Associate Professor. In September 2020, he became a part-time Visiting Full Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
He has authored the textbooks Optimal Resource Allocation in Coordinated Multi-Cell Systems (2013), Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and Hardware Efficiency (2017), and Foundations of User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO (2020). He is dedicated to reproducible research and has made a large amount of simulation code publicly available. He performs research on MIMO communications, radio resource allocation, machine learning for communications, and energy efficiency. He has been on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017. He has been a member of the Online Editorial Team of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications since 2020. He has been an Area Editor in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine since 2021. He has also been a guest editor of multiple special issues.
He has performed MIMO research for over 14 years, his papers have received more than 12000 citations, and he has filed more than twenty patent applications. He is a host of the podcast Wireless Future and has a popular YouTube channel. He has received the 2014 Outstanding Young Researcher Award from IEEE ComSoc EMEA, the 2015 Ingvar Carlsson Award, the 2016 Best Ph.D. Award from EURASIP, the 2018 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, the 2019 EURASIP Early Career Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award, the 2020 Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award, and the 2020 CTTC Early Achievement Award. He also co-authored papers that received Best Paper Awards at the conferences, including WCSP 2009, the IEEE CAMSAP 2011, the IEEE SAM 2014, the IEEE WCNC 2014, the IEEE ICC 2015, and WCSP 2017.
Research Interests: Massive MIMO, Cell-Free Massive MIMO, RIS, Signal Processing, Convex Optimization.
Dr. Majid Safari received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a Reader (associate professor) at the Institute for Digital Communication, University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include the application of information theory and advanced signal processing in optical wireless, optical fibre, and quantum communications. Over the last decade, Dr Safari’s research has addressed a number of important challenges in the field of optical wireless communication (OWC). In particular, his novel contributions to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and relay-assisted OWC were pioneering, attracting more than 1000 citations. Dr Safari has published more than 100 papers and was named an “Emerging Leader” in Optics by the editorial board of the Journal of Optics in 2018. He currently focuses on developing 6G Optical wireless networks as part of the EPSRC program grant TOWS. Dr. Safari is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communication and was the TPC co-chair of the 4th International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication in 2015.
Research Interests: Communication Theory, Optical Communications, Quantum Communication.
Shankar Prakriya received the B.E. degree (Hons) in electronics and communication engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, in 1987, and the M.A.Sc. (Engg.) and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He was with the Indian Space Research Organization for about three years. In 1997, he joined IIT Delhi, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. He was the Jai Gupta Research Chair Professor for five years until 2017. He holds three U.S. and some Indian patents. His research interests include cognitive radio, wireless energy harvesting, battery energy management, interference management, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), massive machine type communication, backscatter communication, Intelligent reflecting surfaces, and full-duplex communication. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Research Interests: 5G communications, Cognitive radio, Energy harvesting, NOMA, interference management.
Dr. Vimal has a mix of academic and industrial experience both in India and the UK. He completed his Ph.D. from the Institute for Digital Communications at The University of Edinburgh (UoE), UK in 2005 fully funded by UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and The University of Edinburgh. During his Ph.D. he also received the IEE fellowship for collaborative research on OFDM with Prof. Falconer at Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is a reviewer for IEEE, Elsevier, and IET. He is currently Senior Member of IEEE and certified SCRUM Master. He is also General Co-Chair for IEEE ANTS 2018, and General Vice-Chair for IEEE ANTS 2017. He is currently an Adjunct Faculty at IIT Delhi and IIIT Delhi. He is also working on pan-IIT 5G Test Bed development. He is currently associate editor for IETE Technical Review, Frontiers in Communications and Networking, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
Research Interests: Wireless Communications, 5G, 6G, ML, Signal Processing, non-Gaussian non-Parametric Signal Processing with Applications to Telecommunications and in Software Product Development.
Dr. Satyam Agarwal received his Ph.D in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi. Previously, he completed his B.Tech. in electronics and communication from Thapar University, India, in 2010, and the M.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2012. He worked as system software engineer at ST-Ericsson Bangalore from Jul. - Dec. 2012. Before joining IIT Guwahati as Assistant professor in June 2017, he worked as postdoctoral researcher in the department of telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino under the mentorship of Prof. Carla Chiasserini.
Research Interests: Link and Cross Layer Protocol Design and Performance Studies in Wireless Networks.
Sidharth Kashyap is a ‘Sr. Deep Learning R&D Engineer’ in Intel’s Data Platforms Group, focusing on pathfinding and co-design for Neural Machine Translation, Bayesian Deep Learning and Graph Analytics. He was previously working for multiple High Performance Computing centers in the UK, accelerating big data and scientific applications at the Supercomputing scale.
Research Interests: Intersection of Deep Learning, High Performance Computing and Computer Architecture.
Keshav Singh received the M.Sc. degree in information and telecommunications technologies from Athens Information Technology, Greece, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in communication engineering from National Central University, Taiwan, in 2015. He currently works at the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan as an Assistant Professor. Prior to this, he held the position of Research Associate from 2016 to 2019 at the Institute of Digital Communications, University of Edinburgh, U.K. From 2019 to 2020, he was associated with the University College Dublin, Ireland as a Research Fellow. He leads research in the areas of green communications, resource allocation, full-duplex radio, ultra-reliable low-latency communication, non-orthogonal multiple access, wireless edge caching, machine learning for communications, and large intelligent surface-assisted communications.
Research Interests: Areas of Green Communications, Resource Allocation, full-duplex radio, ultra-reliable low-latency communication, non-orthogonal multiple access, wireless edge caching, machine learning for communications, and large intelligent surface assisted communications.
Dr. Satyanarayana Vuppala (M. Tech, Ph.D, CISSP, SMIEEE) is currently Senior Security Architect, VP at Citibank, Ireland. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Scientist at United Technologies Research Center, Ireland. He held various research positions at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, University of Edinburgh and Jacobs University. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree with distinction in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Kakinada, India, in 2009, and the Master of Technology degree in Information Security from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 2011. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany in Jan, 2015. He has authored more than 70 publications in refereed international journals and conferences. His research interests are on Cyber physical security, Internet of things, content delivery networks, wireless communications with particular focus on 5G. He also works on physical, access, and network layer aspects of wireless security.
Research Interests: cyber physical security, internet of things, content delivery networks, wireless communications with particular focus on 5G, physical, access, and network layer aspects of wireless security.
Dr. Faheem Khan is a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield. He also serves as Course Leader of MSc in Electronic and Automotive Engineering. Dr Khan received his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast in year 2012, a Master’s degree in Communication and Radar Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, and Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, India. Dr Khan is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Member of IEEE.
Dr. Khan has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience at academic and research institutions in the UK, Sultanate of Oman, UAE, and India. Prior to joining as Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield in 2016, he worked as Research Associate in Wireless Communications and Signal Processing at the Institute for Digital Communications, the University of Edinburgh where he contributed to research and project management in several EU/EPSRC research projects.
Dr. Khan’s current research interests include spectrum sharing for beyond 5G wireless networks, licensed shared access and cognitive radio, non-orthogonal multiple access, machine learning and deep learning in wireless communications, full-duplex communications, MIMO communications, millimeter-wave communications, and Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Dr. Khan's research is currently funded by the following research grants: Principal investigator of Proof of Commercial Concept (PoC) research grant on "Non-orthogonal multiple access techniques in beyond 5G networks", Co-investigator of EU H2020 ETN Research Project "MObility and Training fOR beyond 5G Ecosystems (MOTOR5G)" (3.9M€), Co-investigator of EU H2020 RISE Research Project "Research Collaboration and Mobility for Beyond 5G Future Wireless Networks (RECOMBINE)" (0.5M€).
Research Interests: Wireless Communication, Cognitive Radio, MIMO Communications, millimeter Wave Communication, and Full-Duplex Communication.
Dr. Vijay Bhaskar Semwal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT). He joined MANIT in February, 2019. Prior to that, he received the Ph.D. degree in Robotics in 2017 from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIITA), India.
Research Interests: Bipedal Robotics, Gait Analysis, Human- Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Classifications & Identification, Neural Network-Based learning (MLP, CNN, RNN, Radial Basis function, gradient descent leanring) , Deep Learning, Auto encoder, LSTM, Optimisation, ELM, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Sentimental Analysis , Topic modeling, Information Extraction, Exploratory data analysis etc.
Prabhat Kumar Sharma (S’12–M’15–SM’17) received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in electronics and communication engineering and VLSI design from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, and the Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from the University of Delhi in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He has authored over 70 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include Molecular and Biological Communications, and 6G and Beyond Wireless Communications Systems. He is the recipient of the Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, and URSI/InRaSS Young Indian Radio Scientist Award 2019.
Research Interests: Cognitive Radio, Free-Space Optical Communication, and Full Duplex Wireless Communications.
Dr. Sudip Biswas (PhD, MIEE) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIITG). Prior to that, he received the Ph.D. degree in Digital Communications in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), UK. Following that he worked at the Institute of Digital Communications in UEDIN as a research scientist from 2017 to 2019 on optimization and signal processing for 5G and Beyond Communications. He also has industrial experience with Tata Consultancy Services, India (Lucknow & Kolkata), where he held the position of Asst. Systems Engineer from 2010 to 2012. He was a recipient of the EU-FP7 PhD fellowship from 2013-2016 and the prestigious ISIT travel grant from the Information Theory Society in 2015. Furthermore, he has been previously involved in 2 EU FP7 projects: remote radio heads & parasitic antenna arrays (HARP) and dynamic licensed shared access (ADEL), 1 DST UKIERI project on wireless edge caching, and 1 EPSRC project on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NoMA). Currently, he is leading a DST (SERB) funded project "Signal Processing for Co-existence between Radar and Future Communication Systems" as PI.
Research Interests: Signal Processing for Wireless Communications, 5G & Beyond Communications, Transceiver Design for Full-Duplex Radios, Dynamic Spectrum Access, Wireless Edge Caching, Communication-Radar Co-existence, Intelligent Reflector Surface Assisted Communications and Machine Learning for Communications.
Prabhu Chandhar received the Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 2015. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Senior Research Fellow with the Vodafone IIT KGP Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, IIT Kharagpur. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Division of Communication Systems, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. He is currently with Chandhar Research Labs, Chennai, India. His research interests include signal processing and communication theory.
Research Interests: Communication Systems.
Dr. Bansal completed his Masters in Signal Processing from Division of ECE, NSIT, Delhi, in 2009 and received his Ph.D. Degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India in 2013. He served as Assistant Professor in the Division of ECE, NSIT from September 2013 to December 2019. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Jammu since December 2019. His main research interests include multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, multi-user communications with energy harvesting in UAV-assisted networks, free-space optical communications, and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems. Moreover, he has published several research papers in reputed international journals like IEEE TVT, IEEE TWC, IET Communications, and IEEE/OSA JOCN, etc. He has also presented papers in various conferences like IEEE VTC, IEEE ICC, IEEE SPCOM, and NCC, etc. Dr. Bansal is an active member of IEEE since 2012 and has also served as a reviewer of various IEEE journals and conferences.
Research Interests: Cooperative communications, Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, Distributed space-time block code (DSTBC) based communication systems, Multiuser communications, Free space optical (FSO) communication systems, Mixed RF and FSO systems, Power line communication (PLC) systems, 5G Wireless Communications, Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA).