Dr. Zhu PeiYing
Huawei, Canada
Talk: AGI Innovations Redefine Communications and Networking
Dr. Peiying Zhu, Senior Vice President of Wireless Research, is a Huawei Fellow, IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. She is currently leading 6G wireless research and standardization in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced radio access technologies. She is actively involved in 3GPP and IEEE 802 standards development. She has been regularly giving talks and panel discussions on 5G/6G vision and enabling technologies. She led the team to contribute significantly to 5G technologies and standardization. Many technologies developed by the team have been adopted into 5G standards and implemented in 5G products. She served as the guest editor for IEEE Signal processing magazine special issue on the 5G revolution and IEEE JSAC on Deployment Issues and Performance Challenges for 5G. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Peiying was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology in the Nortel Wireless Technology Lab.
Prof. Ahmed Alkhateeb
Arizona State University, USA
Talk: Machine Learning for Scalable MIMO Communication Systems
Ahmed Alkhateeb received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2008 and 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 2016. After the Ph.D., he spent some time as a Wireless Communications Researcher at the Connectivity Lab, Facebook, before joining Arizona State University (ASU) in the Spring of 2018, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering. His research interests are in the broad areas of wireless communications, signal processing, machine learning, and applied math. Dr. Alkhateeb is the recipient of the 2012 MCD Fellowship from The University of Texas at Austin, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for his work on hybrid precoding and channel estimation in millimeter-wave communication systems, and the NSF CAREER Award 2021 to support his research on leveraging machine learning for large-scale MIMO systems.
Prof. Byonghyo Shim
Seoul National University, South Korea
Talk: Generative AI-aided Task-oriented Autonomous Communications for 6G
Prof. Shim is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University. He completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control and Instrumentation Engineering at Seoul National University in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He further obtained an M.S. degree in Mathematics and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Prof. Shim’s career includes serving as an Officer and Academic Full-time Instructor at the Korean Air Force Academy from 1997 to 2000, and holding positions at Texas Instruments and Samsung Electronics in 2004 and 2019, respectively. He was also a Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego, CA, from 2005 to 2007, and an Associate Professor at Korea University from 2007 to 2014. Since September 2014, he has been with Seoul National University.
Prof. Qingqing Wu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Talk: Intelligent Surfaces Empowered Green 6G Communications
Qingqing Wu is an Associate Professor with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His current research interest includes intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, and MIMO transceiver design. He has coauthored more than 100 IEEE journal papers with 30+ ESI highly cited papers and 10+ ESI hot papers, which have received more than 29,000 Google citations. He has been listed as the Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher since 2021, the Most Influential Scholar Award in AI-2000 by Aminer since 2021 and World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University since 2020. He was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prize, IEEE Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2023, Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award and Outstanding Paper Award in 2022, Young Author Best Paper Award in 2021 and 2024, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award of China Institute of Communications in 2017, the IEEE ICCC Best Paper Award in 2021, and IEEE WCSP Best Paper Award in 2015. He was the Exemplary Editor of IEEE Communications Letters in 2019 and the Exemplary Reviewer of several IEEE journals. He serves as an Associate/Senior/Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He is the Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He is the workshop co-chair for IEEE ICC 2019-2023 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2020. He serves as the Workshops and Symposia Officer of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Emerging Technology Initiative and Research Blog Officer of Aerial Communications Emerging Technology Initiative. He is the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Young Professional AP Committee and the Chair of IEEE VTS Drone Committee.
Dr. Meryem Simsek
Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Talk: Towards Fully-Autonomous Future Networks that Sense, Think, and Act
Dr. Meryem Simsek is head of the Network Architecture Research (NAR) Lab at Nokia Bell Labs and is leading an interdisciplinary team of experts to drive network architecture innovations across multiple network layers and across all network segments. Previously, Dr. Simsek has held various scientific leadership roles with VMware, Intel Labs, UC Berkeley, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Berkeley, and Technical University Dresden. Her research background and interest span a wide range of topics including but not limited to distributed systems, (mobile) network technologies, cloud computing, AI/ML and multi-agent systems, game theory, and control theory. Dr. Simsek is the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2015, the Rising Star in Computer Networking and Communications by N2Women in 2019, the Edge Computing World Edge Women of the year top 10 finalist in 2022, and the IEEE ComSoc Tactile Internet Technical Committee Service award in 2023.