About me

I am a Postdoctoral researcher in the connectivity section at Aalborg University in Denmark. I received Ph.D degree from Kansai University, Japan, in 2023. I was a visiting Ph.D. student at Aalborg university in 2022. I received a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2024. 

News

• May 27, 2026, We presented our latest work, "Wireless Memory Approximation for Energy-efficient Task-specific IoT Data Retrieval", at IEEE ICC2026@Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

• Dec. 1, 2025, I gave a short talk at the Annual Workshop of  Future of Communications IV, Annual Workshop of the Villum Investigator Grant "Water", regarding "Wireless Memory Approximation: Energy-Frugal Relevant IoT Data Retrieval."

• Feb. 26, 2025, I gave a short talk at 6G-XCEL/ Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Joint Workshop at Virginia Tech.. The title of the presentation is "Energy-Efficient Relevance Data Retrieval in IoT Networks."

• December 11, 2024, I presented our latest work, "Coexistence of Push Wireless Access with Pull Communication for Content-based Wake-up Radios,"  at the IEEE Global Communications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.

• December 11, 2024, We presented our latest work, "EcoPull: Sustainable IoT Image Retrieval Empowered by TinyML Models,"  at the IEEE Global Communications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.

• December 2024, I gave a short talk at the Annual Workshop of  Future of Communications III, Annual Workshop of the Villum Investigator Grant "Water", regarding "Timing and data relevance for Energy-frugal IoT networking".

• Sep. 2024 I gave a short talk at 6G-XCEL/ACCoRD Plenary meeting & workshop in WINLAB, Rutgers University, regarding the topic of "Timing and Data Relevance in Pull-push Communication".

• Mar. 2024 My research proposal "NEUTRINAI: energy-frugal internet of things networking with generative AI modules" was accepted as MSCA-PF

• Dec. 2023 I gave a short talk at the Annual Workshop of  Future of Communications II, Annual Workshop of the Villum Investigator Grant "Water" regarding the topic of section of semantic/goal-oriented communication

• Apr. 2024 I joined the research group of the connectivity section at Aalborg University as a Postdoc

• Mar. 2023 I successfully defended my Ph.D thesis "Energy-efficient Content-based Wake-up Control for Wireless Sensor Networks"

• Apr. 2022 I joined the research group of the connectivity section at Aalborg University as a guest Ph.D. student, where I will spend 6 months

Research interest

• Energy-efficient PHY/MAC protocol designs

• Wake-up radio/wake-up receiver/content-based wake-up

• Communication framework designs with a lightweight ML model/Continual learning  

• Age of information/Timeliness

• Semantic communication/ semantic query

• Goal-oriented communications

• Neuromorphic sensing and communication

• Memory-aware communications

List of Research Publications

Journal articles (with peer review)

1. Van Phuc Bui, Junya Shiraishi, Petar Popovski, and Shashi Raj Pandey, “Time-constrained Federated Learning (FL) in Push-Pull IoT Wireless Access,” in IEEE Networking Letters,  vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 347-351, Dec. 2025.

2. Junya Shiraishi, Anders E. Kalør, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Federico Chiariotti, Petar Popovski, and Hiroyuki Yomo, "Content-based Wake-up for Energy-efficient and Timely Top-k IoT Sensing Data Retrieval," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 13983-13998, Dec. 2025.

3. Junya Shiraishi, Mathias Thorsager, Shashi Raj Pandey, and Petar Popovski, "TinyAirNet: TinyML Model Transmission for Energy-efficient  Image Retrieval from IoT Devices," IEEE Communications Letters, 2024.

4. Takuya Murakami, Junya Shiraishi and Hiroyuki Yomo, "Cluster-based multi-hop wake-up control for top-k query in wireless sensor networks," in IEICE Transactions on Communications, doi: 10.23919/transcom.2024CEP0006. 

5. Junya Shiraishi, Anders E. Kalør, Federico Chiariotti, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Petar Popovski, and Hiroyuki Yomo, “Query Timing Analysis for Content-based Wake-up Realizing Informative IoT Data Collection,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 327-331, Feb. 2023.

6. Junya Shiraishi and Hiroyuki Yomo, “Periodical Top-k Ranking Query in Wireless Sensor Networks Exploiting Wake-Up Receivers,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 20, pp. 23698-23710, Oct. 2021.

7. Junya Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Yomo, Kaibin Huang, Cedomir Stefanovic, and Petar Popovski, “Content-Based Wake-Up for Top-k Query in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 362-377, March 2021.

Magazine articles (with peer review)

1. Shashi Raj Pandey, Fabio Saggese, Junya Shiraishi, Federico Chiariotti, Petar Popovski, “Medium Access for Push-Pull Data Transmission in 6G Wireless Systems,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 172-178, April 2026, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2500233.

International Conference (with peer-reviewed)

1. Matea Marinova, Shashi Raj Pandey, Junya Shiraishi, Martin Voigt Vejling, Valentin Rakovic, Petar Popovski, “Online Continual Learning for Anomaly Detection in IoT under Data Distribution Shifts,” Accepted for 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2026).

2. Junya Shiraishi, Shashi Raj Pandey, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Petar Popovski, “Wireless memory approximation for energy-efficient task-specific IoT data retrieval,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2026, 2026.

3. Takaho Shimokasa, Hiroyuki Yomo, Federico Chiariotti, Junya Shiraishi, and Petar. Popovski, "Low-Power and Accurate IoT Monitoring Under Radio Resource Constraint," 2025 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 1-6.

4. Merim Dzaferagic, Marco Ruffini, …, Junya Shiraishi et al, “Decentralized AI-Control Framework for Multi-Party Multi-Network 6G Deployments” 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2025, pp. 1227-1232.

5. Mathias Thorsager, Victor Croisfelt, Junya Shiraishi, and Petar Popovski, “EcoPull: Sustainable IoT Image Retrieval Empowered by TinyML Models,” Proc. of 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.

6. Junya Shiraishi, Sara Cavallero, Shashi Raj Pandey, Fabio Saggese, and Petar Popovski, “Coexistence of push wireless access with pull communication for content-based wake-up radios,” Proc. of 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.

7. Sara Cavallero, Fabio Saggese, Junya Shiraishi, Shashi Raj Pandey, Chiara Buratti and Petar Popovski, "Coexistence of Pull and Push Communication in Wireless Access for IoT Devices," 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Lucca, Italy, 2024, pp. 841-845, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694005. 

8. Fabio Saggese, Victor Croisfelt, Francesca Costanzo, Junya Shiraishi, Radoslaw Kotaba, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Petar Popovski "Control Aspects for Using RIS in Latency-Constrained Mobile Edge Computing," Proc. of 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 174-181, doi: 10.1109/IEEECONF59524.2023.10477033. 

9. Takuya Murakami, Junya Shiraishi, and Hiroyuki Yomo, “Cluster-based Wake-up Control for Top-k Query in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of 2023 IEEE 97-th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Spring), June 2023.

10. Junya Shiraishi and Hiroyuki Yomo, “Wake-up Control for Energy-efficient Identifications of Multiple Emission Sources in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Feb 2023.

11. Hiroyuki Yomo, Yuta Minami, Hitoshi Kawakita, and Junya Shiraishi, “Wake-up Control with Kernel Density Estimation for Top-k Query in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 2021.

12. Hiroyuki Yomo, Junya Shiraishi, and Hitoshi Kawakita, “Content-based Wake-up for Aggregate Query in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications, 2020, Dec. 2020.

13. Junya Shiraishi and Hiroyuki Yomo, “Wake-up Control for Wireless Sensor Networks Collecting top-k Data with Temporal Correlation,” Proc. of 2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Fall), October 2020.

14. Junya Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Yomo, Kaibin Huang, Cedomir Stefanovic and Petar Popovski, “Content-based Wake-up Control for Wireless Sensor Networks Exploiting Wake-up Receivers,” Proc. of 17th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt2019), June 2019.

Awards and Honors

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships by European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation funding programme, with Grant No. 101151067 (01/09/2024-31/08/2026).

• Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (01/04/2022 - 30/09/2022)

• Kansai University SPRING Scholarship Awardee under SPRING: Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation, by The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) (01/01/2022 - 31/03/2023)

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