Organizing Committee

Prof. Aryan Kaushik is Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex, UK, since 2021. Prior to that, he has been with University College London (UCL), UK, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He has also held visiting appointments at Imperial College London, UK, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Athena RC, Greece, and Beihang University, China. He has been External PhD Examiner internationally such as at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain, in 2023. He has been an Invited Panel Member at the UK EPSRC ICT Prioritisation Panel in 2023 plus an Invited Proposal Reviewer for the EPSRC, and has led several collaborative projects forging industry and academic collaborations on topics of strategic importance. Prof. Kaushik is also a member of the One6G Association, a consortium of global industry and academic working groups on 6G. He has been Editor of two upcoming books on ISAC and 6G NTN by Elsevier, and several journals such as IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Best Editor Award 2023), IEEE Communications Letters (Exemplary Editor 2023), IEEE Communications Technology News (initiated IEEE CTN Podcasts Series) and several IEEE ComSoc journal/magazine special issues. He has been an invited/keynote and tutorial speaker for over 45 academic/industry events and conferences globally such as at IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE ICMLCN 2024, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, IEEE WCNC 2023, IEEE VTC-Spring 2023, EuCNC and 6G Summit 2023, Huawei UK Vision Forum 2023, FutureWei USA University Days Workshop 2023, One6G Summit 2023, and many others. He has been chairing in Organizing and Technical Program Committees of over 6 flagship IEEE conferences such as IEEE ICC 2024-26, IEEE WCNC 2023-24, IEEE ICMLCN 2024 and IEEE WF-PST 2024. He has been actively organizing workshops (as General Chair of over 15 workshops) for IEEE ComSoc conferences globally such as at IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE Globecom 2023, IEEE WCNC 2023-24, IEEE PIMRC 2022-23, and several others. 

Prof. Linglong Dai (Fellow, IEEE) is a full professor at Tsinghua University, China. He has published over 80 IEEE journal papers and over 50 IEEE conference papers. He also holds 20 granted patents. His current research interests include 5G/6G wireless communication technologies including massive MIMO, reconfigurable intelligent surface, millimeter-wave/Terahertz communications, wireless AI, and electromagnetic information theory. He is a Co-Chair of the Information Service Committee, IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board, a Co-Chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group (SIG) on Signal Processing Techniques in 5G Communication Systems. He has served as the Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board (2020-2021). He is currently serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and Editor of the IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications.

Prof. Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Since 2010, he has been with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), where he is currently the CNRS Research Director (a Professor). He is Fellow of the IEEE and IET, and a Highly Cited Researcher. He is an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) and the Academia Europaea (AE). He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. From 2017-20, he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE ComSoc and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is also a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

Prof. Octavia A. Dobre (Fellow, IEEE) received the Dipl. Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. Between 2002 and 2005, she was with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. In 2005, she joined Memorial University, Canada, where she is currently a Professor and Research Chair. She was a Visiting Professor with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France. Her research interests encompass wireless communication and networking technologies, as well as optical and underwater communications. She has (co-)authored over 400 refereed papers in these areas. Dr. Dobre serves as the Director of Journals of the Communications Society. She was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE OJCOMS and the EiC of the IEEE Communications Letters. She also served as General Chair, Technical Program Co-Chair, Tutorial Co-Chair, and Technical Co-Chair of symposia at numerous conferences. She was a Fulbright Scholar, Royal Society Scholar, and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE ComSoc. She is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Davide Dardari (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Full Professor with the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been a Research Affiliate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His research interests include wireless communications, localization techniques, and distributed signal processing. He has published more than 250 technical articles and played several important roles in various national and European projects. He received the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s M. Barry Carlton Award in 2011 and the IEEE Communications Society’s Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2012. He was the Chair of the IEEE Radio Communications Committee. He was the Co-General Chair of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband and a Co-Organizer of the IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN)—ICC 2013–2016 editions. He was also the TPC Chair of the IEEE PIMRC, the TPC Co-Chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium of the 2007/2017 IEEE ICC, and the TPC Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband. He served as an Editor for IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications from 2006 to 2012 and guest editor for several journals. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communication Society from 2018 to 2019.

Prof. Marco Donald Migliore (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Laurea (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Naples, Italy. He was a Visiting Professor with the University of California at San Diego, USA, in 2007, 2008, and 2017, University of Rennes I, France, in 2014 and 2016, Centria Research Center, Finland, in 2017, University of Brasilia, Brazil, in 2018, and Harbin Technical University, China, in 2019. He is currently a Full Professor with the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy, where he is also Head of the Microwave Laboratory and Director of Studies of the ITC courses. He is also a member of the ELEDIA@UniCAS Research Laboratory, National Interuniversity Research Center on the Interactions between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems (ICEMmB), where he is also Leader of the 5G Group, Italian Electromagnetic Society (SIEM), and National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunication (CNIT). His current research interests include the connections between electromagnetism and information theory, analysis, synthesis and characterization of antennas in complex environments, antennas and propagation for 5G, ad-hoc wireless networks, compressed sensing as applied to electromagnetic problems, energetic applications of microwaves, fusion between classical, and quantum processing. He was a Speaker at the Summer Research Lecture Series of the UCSD CALIT2 Advanced Network Science, in 2008. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.