Industry Track Panels
Title: Keynote Speakers Panel
11 October 2023, 11:00am Ballroom 1
Panelists
Doru Calin,, AVP, Head of the U.S. 6G Wireless Research Center and the Lead Research Scientist, 6G at MediaTek USA.
Josep Miquel Jornet, Professor, Northeastern University, USA
Lingyang Song, Boya Distinguished Professor, Peking University, China
Peiying Zhu, Senior Vice President of Wireless Research, Huawei, China
Robert W. Heath, President and CEO, MIMO Wireless Inc., USA
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Title: Future Research and Standardization Directions for 6G
12 October 2023, 11:00am Ballroom 1
Moderator: Ruiqi (Richie) Liu, ZTE Corporation, China
Panelists:
Justin Chuang, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, China
–“Towards 6G – Lessons from 5G”
Doru Calin,Media Tek, USA
–“Evolution Towards 6G – the technical trends”
Chaowei Duan, Haige Communication, China
–“AI based physical layer for future wireless communications”
Liang Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
— “Integrated sensing and communication inthe 6G era”
Bios:
Ruiqi (Richie) Liu:
Ruiqi (Richie) Liu (S’14-M’20) received the B.S. and M.S. degree (with honors) in electronic engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He is now a master researcher in the wireless research institute of ZTE Corporation, responsible for long-term research as well as standardization. His main research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication and wireless positioning. He is the author or co-author of several books and book chapters. He has participated in national key research projects as the researcher or research lead. During his 3-year service at 3GPP from 2019 to 2022, he has authored and submitted more than 500 technical documents with over 100 of them approved, and he served as the co-rapporteur of the work item (WI) on NR RRM enhancement and the feature lead of multiple features. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of ISG RIS in the ETSI. He actively participates in organizing committees, technical sessions, workshops, symposia and industry panels in IEEE conferences as the chair, organizer, moderator, panelist or invited speaker. He served as the guest editor for Digital Signal Processing and the lead guest editor for the special issue on 6G in IEEE OJCOMS. He serves as the Editor of ITU Journal of Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) and the Associate Editor of IET Quantum Communication. He is the Standardization Officer for IEEE ComSoc ETI on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (ETI-RIS) and the Standards Liaison Officer for IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCC-TC). He received the Outstanding Service Award from the SPCC-TC in 2022.
Justin Chuang:
Dr Justin Chuang joined ASTRI in December 2011 with nearly three decades of experiences in research, teaching, development and engineering in communications technologies.
He received BSc in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1977, and MSc and PhD, also in Electrical Engineering, from Michigan State University in 1980 and 1983, respectively. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1997. Dr Chuang has held various positions in several multinational organizations including Broadcom, AT&T, Bellcore, and General Electric. Furthermore, he has also served as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (now ECE Dept.) of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) from 1993 to 1996. Dr Chuang is experienced in taking research through engineering to commercialization for communications technologies, from algorithms, chipsets, platforms to applications.
Over the decade since joining ASTRI, Dr Chuang and his team are leveraging the collaborative efforts among government, industry, university and research organizations to drive the advancement and commercialization of enabling technologies for 4G, 5G and beyond. Specifically, his team currently provides open platforms to enable affordable and customizable solutions, such as end-to-end 5G and smart mobility technologies for current and future applications.
Doru Calin:
Dr. Calin is AVP, Head of the U.S. 6G Wireless Research Center and the Lead Research Scientist, 6G at MediaTek USA. In this role, he leads MediaTek’s advanced research for next generation cellular technologies.
He started his career as a Senior Research Engineer with Motorola Research Labs, Paris, France, before joining Bell Labs in New Jersey. He led the creation and incubation of novel technologies from inception stage to field trials in customer networks and market adoption, and became a Bell Labs Fellow, being recognized ‘for bridging the gap between theory and practice with key innovations at the foundation of the first metro cell products, commercial wireless capacity planning services and network protocols optimization solutions’. He was a Sr. Director and the Edge Cloud Innovation Domain Leader at Nokia Mobile Networks’ CTO, with responsibilities for accelerating innovations in 5G, mobile network virtualization, mobile cloud computing, IoT, and verticals for adding business value to networks. He also spearheaded one of the fastest growing businesses with Nokia Enterprise, as the Head of private wireless networks for digital industries in North America.
Doru holds 37 independent patents awarded in multiple countries and over 100 peer-reviewed publications/tutorials/keynotes. He is the recipient of several awards, including two Bell Labs President’s Gold Awards, four Bell Labs Teamwork Awards, IEEE WCNC 2015 Best Paper Award, and Motorola 3GPP Standard Award. Dr. Calin is an Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Wireless Communications and served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and as an Editorial Board Member of Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal. For the past fourteen years, he has been also serving as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City.
Doru received a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, and a PhD (High Hons.) in computer systems networking and telecommunications from the Universitė de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
Chaowei Duan:
Chaowei Duan, received the B.S. from the Department of Communication Engineering, Xidian University, Xian, China in 2013 and Ph.D degree from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He is currently a communication engineer and leads the AI communication lab in Guangzhou Haige Communication Group Incorporated Company. His current research interests include signal processing, deep space communications and deep learning based communications. He holds several patants and publications in wireless communications. He has participated in national key research projects as project lead.
He has been selected into the Young Talent Support Project of Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology and Elite Talents of Guangzhou Hi-Tech Development Zone in 2022.
Liang Liu:
Dr. Liang LIU received the B.Eng. degree from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering at Tianjin University in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto from 2015 to 2017, and a research fellow at NUS from 2017 to 2019. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).
His research interests include wireless communications and networking, advanced signal processing and optimization techniques, and Internet-of-Things (IoT). Dr. Liang LIU is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the Best Student Paper Award for 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), and the Best Paper Award for 2011 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP). He was listed in Highly Cited Researchers, also known as World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) in 2018. He is an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and was a leading guest editor for IEEE Wireless Communications special issue on “Massive Machine-Type Communications for IoT”.