Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998. He served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar before joining in 2009 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where he is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Alouini is a Fellow of the IEEE and OPTICA (Formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA)). He is currently particularly interested in addressing the technical challenges associated with the uneven distribution, access to, and use of information and communication technologies in rural, low-income, disaster, and/or hard-to-reach areas.

Dr. Giovanni Geraci

Giovanni Geraci is an Assistant Professor at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Head of Telecommunications Engineering. He was previously with Nokia Bell Labs and holds a Ph.D. from the UNSW Sydney. He serves as Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE ComSoc and IEEE VTS and as Editor for IEEE TWC and IEEE COMML. Giovanni is a co-Editor of the book “UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond” by Wiley—IEEE Press and received the IEEE ComSoc EMEA Outstanding Young Researcher Award.

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