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Technical Program Committee - VTC2021-Spring Helsinki

Technical Program Committee Leadership:

Technical Program Chair
Mikko Valkama, Tampere University, Finland

Technical Program Vice-Chairs
Rui Dinis, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade Nova of Lisbon, Portugal
Daniel B. da Costa, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil

Track Chairs and Co-Chairs:

Track 1: Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design
Dr. Michael Walter, DLR, Germany (Lead)
Prof. Ugo Silva Dias, University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil
Dr. Harsh Tataria, Lund University, Sweden

Track 2: Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
Prof. Luca Sanguinetti, Pisa University, Italy (Lead)
Prof. Jinho Choi, Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Taneli Riihonen, Tampere University, Finland

Track 3: Green Communications and Networks
Prof. Qimei Cui, Beijing University, China
Prof. Daniel So  University of Manchester, UK
Dr. Miao Pan  University of Houston

4: Multiple Antennas and Cooperative Communications
Prof. Gustavo Fraidenraich, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil (Lead)
Prof Stephen McLaughlin, Heriot Watt University, UK
Prof. George Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Track 5: Vehicle Cooperation and Control, Assisted and Autonomous Driving
Dr. Onur Altintas, TOYOTA North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA (Lead)
Prof. Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany

Track 6: Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services
Dr. Marko Höyhtyä,  VTT, Finland (Lead)
Dr. Toyoshima Morio, Space Communications Laboratory, Japan
Dr. Ørnulf Jan Rødseth , SINTEF Ocean, Norway

Track 7: IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking
Prof. Tony Q.S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore (Lead)
Prof Yuan Wu, University of Macau, Macau
Prof Giovanni Geraci, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Track 8: Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Services and Security
Prof. Kenichi Higuchi, Tokyo University of Science, Japan (Lead)
Prof. Krzysztof Wesołowsk, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Telex Magloire Ngatched Nkouatchah, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Track 9: Positioning, Navigation, and Sensing
Prof. Elena Simona Lohan, Tampere University, Finland (Lead)
Prof. Sunwoo Kim, Hanyang University, South Korea
Assis. Prof Pau Closas, Northeastern University College of Engineering,  USA

Track 10: Machine Learning and AI for Communications
Prof. Christoph Studer, Cornell University, USA
Dr. Jakob Hoydis, Nokia France
Prof. Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Track 11: Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation
Prof. Loïc Boulon, UQTR, Canada (Lead)
Prof. Paulo Pereirinha, ISEC Coimbra, Portugal
Prof. Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Track 12: Emerging technologies, 5G and beyond
Prof. Stefano Tomasin, University of Padova, Italy (Lead)
Prof. Emil Björnson, Linköping University, Sweden
Dr. Himal A. Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka