Organizing Committee
General Chairs
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. Mingzhe Chen received Ph.D. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University. In 2022, he worked as an AI Researcher at Ericsson Research, USA. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute of Data Science and Computing, University of Miami. His research interests include federated learning, reinforcement learning, virtual reality, unmanned aerial vehicles, and IoT. He has received from the IEEE Communication Society two paper awards, including the 2021 Young Author Best Paper Award and the 2022 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Award, and three Conference Best Paper Awards at IEEE ICC in 2020, IEEE GLOBECOM in 2020, and IEEE WCNC in 2021. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.
Prof. Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, and a Global Network Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering with NYU Wireless at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. From 2019 to 2023, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia in 2015 and 2018 respectively. Her research interests lie in the areas of communication theory, signal processing, and electromagnetics and antenna theory.
Dr. Nadeem received the prestigious Paul Baron Young Scholar Award by The Marconi Society in 2018 for her work on full-dimension massive MIMO systems. She also received the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in 2021, with her application ranked first among those submitted by female candidates and third overall. She serves as an Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, and as a co-chair of the Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks track at IEEE VTC 2024-Spring. She also serves as the general chair of workshops at several flagship conferences of IEEE Communications Society including IEEE PIMRC 2023, IEEE ICC 2024 and IEEE WCNC 2024.
Prof. Anas Chaaban received his M.Sc. degree in Communications Technology and his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Ulm and the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2008 to 2009, he was with the Daimler AG research group on machine vision, Ulm, Germany. He was a Research Assistant with the Emmy-Noether Research Group on Wireless Networks at the University of Ulm from 2009 to 2011. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-University of Bochum from 2013 to 2014, and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, from 2015 to 2017. He joined the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, as an Assistant Professor in 2018. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, coding, and their application in wireless communications. He currently serves as an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications (2018-to date). He also served as a financial chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) 2020/21, a treasurer for the North-American School of IT 2021, a TPC chair in the IEEE Globecom 2022 ONS symposium and in the Int. Wireless Commun. & Mobile Computing conf 2017-2019, and a TPC member of multiple conferences.
Steering Committee
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.
Mr. Miguel A. Dajer is a veteran of the telecom industry having spent the last 30 years working in different wireless technologies at Bell Laboratories, Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent and Futurewei Technologies. Mr. Dajer is currently the USA wireless R&D VP for Futurewei Technologies and Director or the company’s NJ Research Center. Mr. Dajer worked at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and Alcatel Lucent for the 25 years prior to his current position. During his tenure at the wireless labs he occupied several key positions in Radio Access Network Hardware and Software product development and life cycle management, basestation platform development, systems engineering and architecture and technology introduction of wireless products. Since joining Futurewei, Mr. Dajer has worked towards establishing a strong wireless solutions presence in North America along with innovation and technology labs that supports Huawei’s MBB wireless product solutions. His lab research focuses on 5G evolution to 5.5G and beyond 5G+ network architectures for the support of massive connectivity, high bandwidth and delay sensitive applications, fundamental technologies to enable these solutions, including signal processing, antenna systems, the role of big data and machine learning on wireless communication and the standardization of such solutions.
Prof. A. Lee Swindlehurst (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1991. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, BYU, from 1990 to 2007, where he worked as the Department Chair from 2003 to 2006. From 1996 to 1997, he held a joint appointment as a Visiting Scholar with Uppsala University and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. From 2006 to 2007, he was on leave working as the Vice President of Research for ArrayComm LLC, San Jose, CA, USA. Since 2007, he has been a Professor with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department, University of California at Irvine, where he worked as the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies with the Samueli School of Engineering from 2013 to 2016. He is currently the Chair of the EECS Department. From 2014 to 2017, he was also a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich. In 2016, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). His research focuses on array signal processing for radar, wireless communications, and biomedical applications. He has over 400 publications in these areas. He was the Inaugural EiC of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He received the 2000 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Paper Award, the 2006 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communication Theory, the 2006, 2010, and 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s best paper awards, the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, the Best Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE ICC, and the 2022 Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing 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. Ekram Hossain (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor and an Associate Head (Graduate Studies) with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. He is a Member (Class of 2016) of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. His research works have received over 29,000 citations to date (in Google Scholar, with H-index = 89). His current research interests include design, analysis, and optimization beyond 5G cellular wireless networks. He received the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award “for outstanding technical leadership and achievement in green wireless communications and networking.” He has won several research awards, including the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award and the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prize Paper Award. He was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials from 2012 to 2016. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Press and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is an Elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society for the term from 2018 to 2020. He was elevated to an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to spectrum management and resource allocation in cognitive and cellular radio networks.” He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
TPC Chairs
Dr. Carles Antón-Haro (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). In 1999, he joined Ericsson, Spain, where he participated in rollout projects of 2G and 3G mobile networks. He is currently a Senior Researcher and the Director of R&D Programs and also with the Centre Tecnòlogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC). He has published more than 110 technical articles in IEEE journals and conferences (2 best paper awards) and books/book chapters. He has supervised 6 Ph.D. Theses (1 in progress). As a Senior Researcher, his research interests include signal processing and estimation theory for communications, this including machine learning, sensor and IoT networks, M2M communications, array signal processing, MIMO, energy harvesting, and smart grids. In recent years, he has been actively involved in the organization of major conferences such as the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2018 as a General Chair, the Workshop on Integrating Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grid @ ICC17 (TPC Chair), or the European Signal Processing Conference 2011 as a General Vice-Chair. He is an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networks.
Prof. Wonjae Shin (Senior Member, IEEE) received B.S. and M.S. degrees from KAIST, South Korea, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from the Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea, in 2017. From 2007 to 2014, he was a member of the technical staff with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., South Korea, where he contributed to next-generation wireless communication networks, especially for 3GPP LTE/LTE-advanced standardizations. From 2016-18, he was a Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Princeton University, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor with Korea University, South Korea. Prior to that, he was with Ajou University (2021-23) and Pusan National University in South Korea (2018-21). His research interests include the design and analysis of future wireless communications, such as interference-limited networks and machine learning for wireless networks. He was the recipient of the Fred W. Ellersick Prize and the Asia–Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2020, the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from SNU in 2017, the Gold Prize from the IEEE Student Paper Contest (Seoul Section) in 2014, and the Award of the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea in IDIS-Electronic News ICT Paper Contest in 2017. He was recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer by IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2014 and IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2019. He was also awarded several fellowships, including the Samsung Fellowship Program in 2014 and the SNU Long-Term Overseas Study Scholarship in 2016. He is an Editor of the IEEE OJCOMS.
Dr. Hamed Farhadi received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2014. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2016, and a Researcher with the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2015. He is currently a Senior Researcher with Ericsson Research, Stockholm. He is also the Technical Manager of the European 6G Flagship Project Hexa-X. His research interests include statistical signal processing and machine learning for wireless communication networks. He is an Editor of a book Machine Learning—Advanced Techniques and Emerging Applications and a book Medical Internet of Things (m-IoT)—Enabling Technologies and Emerging Applications. He was a recipient of IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award. He has been on the editorial board of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (Springer), since 2015.
Dr. Rajitha Senanayake received the B.E. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and the bachelor’s degree in information technology from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2009 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2015. She was with the Research and Development Team with Excel Technology, Sri Lanka, from 2009 to 2011 and the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia, from 2015 to 2016. She is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are in cooperative communications, distributed antenna systems and joint communications and sensing. She is a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.