IEEE Global Communications Conference
9-13 December 2018 // Abu Dhabi, UAE
Gateway to a Connected World

I-Yes Education Track

Young Engineer & Scientist Initiative (i-YES) Education & Training Track

Tuesday, December 11

Session 113:30-15:00
Session 215:30-17:00
Room: ADNEC, Conference Hall A: Part A

Motivation and Background

The Education Track organized by the IEEE Communication Society Education Services Board (ESB) will feature two Keynote Speeches, an Inspiring Talk, presentations about the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition “Communications Technology Changing the World” and a Panel entitled "Meet the ComSoc Leaders!".

Organizers:

Rhys Bowley, National Instruments, USA

Rhys BowleyRhys Bowley has been working with National Instruments since 2010 as part of both their UK branch and now based at the global headquarters in Austin, Texas. A graduate of Electronic Communications Engineering, Rhys obtained his Masters in Engineering (MEng) from Cardiff University where he worked briefly as a Research Assistant developing novel load-pull power amplifier characterisation test systems that were multiple orders of magnitude faster than the industry standard. Leveraging his background in wireless communications prototyping and measurement systems, Rhys now works as a Product Marketing Manager for National Instruments focussing on academic research grants and creating the right undergraduate courses to fuel the future labour force in both academic and industrial research laboratories. Rhys’ daily activities revolve around making sure that academic research institutions have the right capabilities to keep pace with the dizzying speed of innovation in the areas of 5G and the Industrial IoT. As a member-at-large of the IEEE ComSoc Educational Services Board, Rhys has worked through events such as IEEE Globecom, 5G Summit and ICC conferences as well as the ComSoc Summer School to provide workshops and presentations that help develop the skills and technical acumen of researchers from many different sectors of communications.

Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece & Bournemouth University, UK

Periklis ChatzimisiosPeriklis Chatzimisios serves as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Computing Systems, Security and Networks (CSSN) Research Lab in the Department of Informatics at the Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki (ATEITHE), Greece. Currently, he is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Science & Technology, at Bournemouth University, UK. In the past, he has been a Visiting Academic/Researcher at University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC LIP6) (France), University of Toronto (Canada) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Dr. Chatzimisios is/has been involved in several standardization and IEEE activities serving as a Member of the Standards Development Board for the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc), Member of the IEEE ComSoc Standards Program Development Board, Member of IEEE ComSoc Education & Training Board, Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD) and Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee in Information Infrastructure and Networking (TCIIN). Dr. Chatzimisios is the editor/author of 8 books and more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Dr. Chatzimisios received his Ph.D. from Bournemouth University, UK (2005) and his B.Sc. from ATEITHE, Greece (2000).

Mike Devetsikiotis, The University of New Mexico, USA

Mike Devetsikiotis

Periklis Chatzimisios serves as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Computing Systems, Security and Networks (CSSN) Research Lab in the Department of Informatics at the Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki (ATEITHE), Greece. Currently, he is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Science & Technology, at Bournemouth University, UK. In the past, he has been a Visiting Academic/Researcher at University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC LIP6) (France), University of Toronto (Canada) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Dr. Chatzimisios is/has been involved in several standardization and IEEE activities serving as a Member of the Standards Development Board for the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc), Member of the IEEE ComSoc Standards Program Development Board, Member of IEEE ComSoc Education & Training Board, Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD) and Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee in Information Infrastructure and Networking (TCIIN). Dr. Chatzimisios is the editor/author of 8 books and more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Dr. Chatzimisios received his Ph.D. from Bournemouth University, UK (2005) and his B.Sc. from ATEITHE, Greece (2000).

Mike Devetsikiotis is Professor and the Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of New Mexico, USA. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988,and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from North Carolina  (NC)  State  University,  Raleigh,  in 1990 and 1993, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1993, he joined the Broadband Networks Laboratory, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He later became an Adjunct Research Professor with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, in 1995, an Assistant Professor in 1996, and an Associate Professor in 1999. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University, as an Associate Professor, in 2000, and became a Professor in 2006. He is currently a member of the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, the Sigma Xi Honor Society, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. He served as the Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee Communication Systems Integration and Modeling, and a member of the ComSoc Education Board.

 


 

Session 1: 13:30-15:00

13:30-14:00 Keynote Speech: “Data and Network Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities”

Keynote Speaker

Professor Georgios B. Giannakis, University of Minnesota, USA

Georgios B. GiannakisGeorgios B. Giannakis (IEEE Fellow’96) received his Diploma in Electrical Engr. from the National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece (1981), a MSc in Electrical Engineering (1983), a MSc. in Mathematics (1986), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engr., (1986) from the University of Southern California. He was with the U. of Virginia from 1987 to 1998, and since 1999 he has been a Professor with the University of Minnesota, where he holds a Chair in Wireless Communications, a University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Chair in ECE, and serves as Director of the Digital Technology Center. His general interests span the areas of communications, networking and statistical signal processing – subjects on which he has published more than 400 journal papers, 700 conference papers, 25 book chapters, two edited books and two research monographs (h-index 131). Current research focuses on data science and network science with applications to social, brain, and power networks with renewables. He is the (co-) inventor of 32 patents issued, and the (co-) recipient of 9 best journal paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Societies. He also received Technical Achievement Awards from the SP Society (2000), from EURASIP (2005), and the inaugural IEEE Fourier Tech. Field Award (2015). He is a Fellow of EURASIP and has served the IEEE in various posts including that of a Distinguished Lecturer.

Abstract: We live in an era of data deluge. Pervasive sensors collect massive amounts of information on every bit of our lives, churning out enormous streams of raw data in various formats. Mining information and learning
from unprecedented volumes of data promises to limit the spread of epidemics and diseases, identify trends in financial markets, learn the dynamics of emergent social-computational systems, and also protect critical infrastructure including the smart grid and the Internet’s backbone network. While Big Data can be definitely perceived as a big blessing, big challenges also arise with large-scale datasets. This talk
will overview challenges and opportunities emerging in the analytical and algorithmic foundations that are widely referred to as Data Science, and Network Science, the latter for data residing on graphs formed by
agents that are interconnected (or networked) either physically or through their interdependencies.

14:00-14:30 Keynote Speech: “TBA”

Keynote Speaker

Professor Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida, USA

Huseyin ArslanHuseyin Arslan (IEEE Fellow) has received his BS degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 1992; MS and Ph.D. degrees in 1994 and 1998 from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX. USA. From January 1998 to August 2002, he was with the research group of Ericsson Inc., NC, USA, where he was involved with several projects related to 2G and 3G wireless communication systems. Since August 2002, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Dept. of University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, where he is a Professor. In December 2013, he joined Istanbul Medipol University to found the Engineering College, where he has worked as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences. He has also served as the director of the Graduate School of Engineering and Natural Sciences in the same university. In addition, he has worked as a part-time consultant for various companies and institutions including Anritsu Company, Savronik Inc., and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Dr. Arslan’s research interests are related to advanced signal processing techniques at the physical and medium access layers, with cross-layer design for networking adaptivity and Quality of Service (QoS) control. He is interested in many forms of wireless technologies including cellular radio, wireless PAN/LAN/MANs, fixed wireless access, aeronautical networks, underwater networks, in vivo networks, and wireless sensors networks. His current research interests are on 5G and beyond, physical layer security, interference management (avoidance, awareness, and cancellation), cognitive radio, small cells, powerline communications, smart grid, UWB, multi-carrier wireless technologies, dynamic spectrum access, co-existence issues on heterogeneous networks, aeronautical (High Altitude Platform) communications, in vivo channel modeling and system design, and underwater acoustic communications. He has served as technical program committee chair, technical program committee member, session and symposium organizer, and workshop chair in several IEEE conferences. He is currently a member of the editorial board for the IEEE Surveys and Tutorials and the Sensors Journal. He has also served as a member of the editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), the Elsevier Physical Communication Journal, the Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Wiley Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Journal.

Abstract: In this talk, the importance of wireless industry in academic research and teaching will be discussed. Also, some research and educational  opportunities in 5G and beyond for both industry and
academia will be presented. Finally, a wireless laboratory course that enables students  to implement wireless technologies in the laboratory environment will be discussed.

 

14:30-15:00 Inspiring Speech: “How to Secure Funding for Large Research Testbeds”

Modern wireless research requires flexible and scalable testbeds that can produce replicable results. Take a detailed look at examples of world leading testbeds and understand the correct and incorrect ways you can use industry partners to boost the chances of your funding grants.

Speaker

Rhys Bowley, National Instruments, USA

 


 

Session 2: 15:30-17:00

15:30-15:40 “IEEE ComSoc Student Competition - Communications Technology Changing the World”

Speakers:

Stefano Bregni, IEEE ComSoc Vice President Conferences and Nelson Fonseca, IEEE ComSoc Vice President Technical and Educational Activities (co-Chairs of the Selection Committee)

 

15:40-15:50 “Passenger Flows: Crowd Mobility Analytics with Edge Computing in Public Transport”

Speaker:

Kai Bitterschulte, TU Dortmund University, Germany (First Prize Winner, IEEE ComSoc student)

 

15:50-16:00 “iDriveSense: Towards Efficient Road Information Services”

Speaker:

Amr El-Wakeel, Queen's University, Canada (Second Prize Winner, IEEE ComSoc student)

 

16:00-17:00 Panel “Meet the ComSoc Leaders!”

The Panel brings together Young Engineers and Scientists with IEEE Communication Society Leaders! In this Panel all participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss about the added value and the benefits to be a member of the IEEE Communication Society! Questions from the audience are welcomed and encouraged.

Panelists:

Stefano Galli, Huawei, USA (Vice-President of Industry and Standards)

Stefano Galli received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Rome
(Italy). Currently, he is a Lead Scientist in Huawei USA. Previously, he
has served as Director of Technology Strategy in ASSIA, Director of
Energy Solutions R&D in Panasonic, and Senior Scientist in Bellcore (now
Ericsson). He currently is the Rapporteur/Chair of the ITU-T
“Communications for Smart Grid” standardization group and has often
contributed to IEEE, ITU-T, ETSI, and BBF. Stefano is an IEEE Fellow, is
serving as IEEE Fellow Committee Chair and ComSoc Vice-President of
Industry and Standards. He has also served as first-chair/founder of the
ComSoc’s Committee on Powerline Communications. His awards include the
IEEE ISPLC Best Paper Awards in 2010 and 2015, the 2014 Broadband Forum
Outstanding Contributor Award, the 2013 IEEE Donald G. Fink Best Paper
Award, and the 2011 ComSoc Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award.
He holds 25 issued/pending patents, has authored 110+ papers, has made
numerous standards contributions, and has co-authored one book and five
book chapters.


Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK (Member at Large, Board of Governors 2018) 

Lajos Hanzo (FREng, FIEEE, FIET, Fellow of EURASIP, DSc) has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications.  He has successfully supervised 112 PhD students, co-authored 18 John Wiley/IEEE Press books on mobile radio communications totalling in excess of 10 000 pages and published 1801 research contributions at IEEE Xplore.


Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy (Director, Educational Services Board)

Fabrizio Granelli is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at the University of Trento (Italy). He the Director of the IEEE ComSoc Educational Services Board
(ESB) and the Director for Online Content. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He was a visiting professor at the State University of
Campinas (Brasil) and at The University of Tokyo (Japan). He was an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2012-15, with several seminars held in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Perù, Japan, ans Morocco. He was then the Delegate for Education at DISI from 2015-2017. He has given presentations and tutorials on green networking and 5G design at top international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, as well as the ComSoc Summer School. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers - mostly on wireless networks. He is the Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.


Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs, USA (Director, Industry Outreach Board)

Ashutosh Dutta is currently Senior Wireless Communication Systems Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL). Most recently he served as Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Middletown, New Jersey. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of  Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has more than 90 conference and journal publications, three book chapters, and 30 issued patents. Ashutosh currently serves as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society and is the founding co-chair for IEEE 5G initiative. He also serves as IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2018. Ashutosh serves as the general co-chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forum. He was recipient of the prestigious 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne.


Ian Wong, National Instruments, USA (Director, Industry Communities Board)

Ian C. Wong is Senior Manager of the Advanced Wireless Research group at National Instruments where he leads the company’s 3GPP and 802.11 wireless standards strategy and platforms for wireless system design, simulation, prototyping, and implementation. From 2007-2009, he was a systems research and standards engineer with Freescale Semiconductor where he represented Freescale in the 3GPP LTE standardization efforts. He is a senior member of the IEEE, the acting Director of Industry Communities for IEEE Communications Society, and was the Industry Program Chair for IEEE Globecom 2015 in Austin. His current research interests include 5G wireless systems design and prototyping, and design automation tools for rapid algorithm development. Dr. Wong has over 10 patents, over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and over 40 standards contributions. He was awarded the Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium Fellowship in 2003-2004, and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group student leadership award in 2007. He received the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and a BS degree in electronics and communications engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of the Philippines in 2000.

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