Organizing Committee

Dr. Muhammad Ali Jamshed (Senior Member IEEE) is with the University of Glasgow since 2021. He is endorsed by Royal Academy of Engineering under exceptional talent category and was nominated for Departmental Prize for Excellence in Research in 2019 and 2020 at the University of Surrey. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy UK, and an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensor Journal, IEEE Communication Standard Magazine and IEEE IoT Magazine. He is a co-inventor of one patent and has more than 70 publications in top tier international journals, including, IEEE Transactions and Magazines, flagship IEEE COMSOC conferences, such as ICC, VTC, INFOCOM, WCNC, etc. He is an editor of 4 books on topics related to Low exposure EMF devices (Wiley and IEEE Press), multimodal sensing applications (Wiley), non-terrestrial networks (Springer) and Green and Sustainable IoT (Elsevier). He has been the Lead Guest Editor for Special Issues in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (2024-25), in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2024-25), and in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (2023-24). He has been serving as General Chair for over 10 workshops at IEEE international conferences such as at IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, IEEE VTC Fall 2024, IEEE MECOM 2024, IEEE CAMAD 2023, IEEE WCNC 2023, IEEE PIMRC 2022-23, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, IEEE VTC Spring 2022-23, IEEE CAMAD 2023, and IEEE CAMAD 2019. He has been TPC Member at IEEE ICC 2022-24 IEEE VTC Spring 2024, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, and Sessions Chair at IEEE VTC Spring 2022 and IEEE WCNC 2019 and 2023. He is a founding member of IEEE Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things.

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 Open Journal of the Communications Society 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. Dr. Dobre was a Fulbright Scholar, Royal Society Scholar, and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. She obtained Best Paper Awards at various conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE PIMRC. Dr. Dobre is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. 

Dr. Xingqin Lin is the 3GPP Lead at NVIDIA, spearheading 3GPP and ATIS standardization and conducting research at the intersection of 5G/6G and AI. Before joining NVIDIA, he was with Ericsson, leading 5G/6G research and standardization in focus areas. He was an Ericsson NextGen Advisory Board member, collaborating with Ericsson Executive Team on strategic projects. He helped establish the world’s first standards group on Generative AI in Telecom and serves as the founding co-chair of the ATIS AI Network Applications working group. His pioneering work has led to strategic opportunities, products, and real-world deployments in the telecom industry, enabling major network transitions from 4G to 5G. He is co-author of the book “Wireless Communications and Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” and the lead editor of the books “5G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Standards” and "Fundamentals of 6G Communications and Networking. He serves/served as an editor of the IEEE Communications Letters (2015-2018), IEEE Communications Magazine (2022-now), IEEE Network (2021-now), and IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (2021-now), the lead guest editor for the IEEE Network special issue on "The Interplay Between Generative AI and 5G-Advanced toward 6G" and IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic on “Digital Twins Meet Artificial Intelligence in 6G," and the lead editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine miniseries on "AI for IoT."