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

Keynote Speakers

PROF. JOHN S. THOMPSON (Fellow, IEEE) (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Title: Overview of Energy Efficient Signal Processing for Millimetre Wave Communications

John Thompson is currently a Professor at the School of Engineering in the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in antenna array processing, cooperative communications systems and energy efficient wireless communications. He has published in excess of three hundred papers on these topics, He was coordinator for the recently completed EU Marie Curie Training Network ADVANTAGE, which studies how communications and power engineering can provide future smart grid systems). In 2018, he will be a co-chair of the IEEE Smartgridcomm conference to be held in Aalborg, Denmark. He currently leads two UK research projects which study new concepts for fifth generation wireless communications. In January 2016, he was elevated to Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to antenna arrays and multi-hop communications. In 2015-2017, he has been recognised by Thomson Reuters as a highly cited researcher.

AMITAVA GHOSH (Fellow, IEEE) (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)

Title: Techniques to Improve Energy Efficiency in Current and Future Generation Cellular Networks

 

Amitava Ghosh is a Nokia Fellow and Head of Small Cell Research at Nokia Bell Labs. Prior to this, he was Senior Director and Fellow of Technical Staff at Motorola Networks. He is widely cited in the field of wireless technology and has over 60 issued patents as well as 30 patents pending with USPTO. In addition, he is the co-author of the book titled "Essentials of LTE and LTE-A" and have written chapters in other field specific books.  His research interests are in the areas of digital communications, digital signal processing and wireless communications.Dr. Ghosh was named an IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his accomplishments in the telecommunications industry. He is also a Nokia Fellow since 2015 and regular speaker and organizer of the Brooklyn Summit 5G Conference.

 

DR. WALID SAAD (Senior Member, IEEE) (Virginia Tech, USA)

Title: Deep Learning for Model-Free Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications with Rate Guarantees

Walid Saad (S'07, M'10, SM’15) received his Ph.D degree from the University of Oslo in 2010. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads the Network Science, Wireless, and Security (NetSciWiS) laboratory, within the Wireless@VT research group. His research interests include wireless networks, game theory, machine learning, cybersecurity, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Saad is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2013, the AFOSR summer faculty fellowship in 2014, and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 2015. He was the author/co-author of six conference best paper awards at WiOpt in 2009, ICIMP in 2010, IEEE WCNC in 2012, IEEE PIMRC in 2015, IEEE SmartGridComm in 2015, and EuCNC in 2017. He is the recipient of the 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. In 2017, Dr. Saad was named College of Engineering Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. From 2015 – 2017, Dr. Saad was named the Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. He currently serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Communications Tutorials & Surveys.

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