Organizing Committee

Core Organizing Committee

Prof. Aryan Kaushik is an Associate Professor at Manchester Met, UK, since 2024. Prior to that, he has been an Assistant Professor on senior grade with University of Sussex, UK (2021-24), and with University College London, UK (2020-21), University of Edinburgh, UK (2015-19), and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (2014-15). He has also held visiting appointments at Imperial College London, UK (2019-20), University of Bologna, Italy (2024), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2018), Athena RC, Greece (2021), and Beihang University, China (2017-19, 2022). He has been External PhD Examiner internationally such as at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (2023). He has been an Invited Panel Member at the UK EPSRC ICT Prioritisation Panel in 2023, Editor of three books on ISAC (2024 Edition), 6G NTN (2025 Edition) and ESIT (2025 Edition) 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 Internet of Things Magazine (including the AI for IoT miniseries), IEEE Communications Technology News (initiated the IEEE ComSoc Podcasts series), and several special issues such as in IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, and many other IEEE venues. He has been an invited/keynote and tutorial speaker for over 80 academic and industry events, and conferences globally such as at IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 and 2024, IEEE VTC-Spring 2023 and 2024, IEEE ICMLCN 2024, IEEE WCNC 2023, IEEE MeditCom 2023 and 2024, One6G Summit 2023 and 2024, and many other events worldwide. He has been chairing in Organizing and Technical Program Committees of 10 flagship IEEE conferences such as IEEE ICC 2024 and 2025, IEEE ICMLCN 2024 and 2025, and IEEE WCNC 2023 and 2024, etc. He has been General Chair of over 20 workshops for IEEE ComSoc conferences such as at IEEE ICC 2024 and 2025, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 and 2024, IEEE WCNC 2023, 2024 and 2025, IEEE PIMRC 2022, 2023 and 2024, and many others.

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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 (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group at Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and Cen-traleSupelec, Paris, France. He is a Founding Member and the Academic Vice Chair ISG on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) within ETSI. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, and AAIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea; and a Highly Cited Researcher. Also, he holds the 2023 France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT, and was a Fulbright Fellow at City University of New York, USA, a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor, and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE COMML during the period 2019-2023, and he is now serving in the Advisory Board.

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Dr. Vincenzo Sciancalepore is a Principal Researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany. He is currently focusing his activity in the area of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and virtualized Radio Access Network. In the past he focused on network virtualization, network slicing and edge computing. He is the standard delegate of NEC actively contributing to the standard ETSI RIS (Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces) ISG. He is currently member of the IEEE Emerging Technologies Standing Committee (ETC) leading the initiatives on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces as well as in the IEEE Mobile Communication Networks Standards Committee (IEEE MobiNet-SC). He currently holds the italian habilitation as associate professor in telecommunications issued by MIUR. He has been involved in a number of European Projects and several published international Research Papers as well as Patents. Currently, he is the innovation project managerof a H2020-fundeed project called 6G-GOALS that will analyze and design new innovation for semantic communications on 6G systems. He is also member of IEEE ComSoc (S’11-M’15-SM’19). He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering and Telematics Engineering in 2011 and 2012, respectively, whereas in 2015, he received a double Ph.D. degree from Politecnico di Milano and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. From 2011 to 2015 he was Research Assistant at IMDEA Networks, focusing on inter-cell coordinated scheduling for LTE Advanced networks and device-to-device communication. He was also the recipient of the national award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the area of communication technologies (Wireless and Networking) issued by GTTI in 2015.