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W18: Distributed AI, Machine Learning, and Emerging Technologies for Next-Generation Wireless Networks - VTC2025-Spring Oslo

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Submission Deadline Extended to 13 March 2025

W18: Distributed AI, Machine Learning, and Emerging Technologies for Next-Generation Wireless Networks

Co-Organizer: Howard H. Yang, Zhejiang University, China
Co-Organizer: Muhammad Awais, Lancaster University, UK
Co-Organizer: Zihan Chen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Co-Organizer: Muhammad Ali Jamshed, University of Glasgow, UK
Co-Organizer: Chenyuan Feng, EURECOM, France
Co-Organizer: Nadeem Javaid, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Co-Organizer: Nikolaos Pappas, Linköping University, Sweden
Co-Organizer: Ishtiaq Ahmad, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Abstract: – Coming Soon

Co-Organizer’s Bios:

Howard H. Yang:

Howard H. Yang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, in 2017. Currently, he is an assistant professor with the ZJU-UIUC Institute, Haining, China. He is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He also serves as the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2024. In addition, he has organized 8 workshops and special sessions relevant to distributed machine learning in conferences including AAAI, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE SECON, IEEE SPAWC, and WiOpt. He received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2023, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2022, and the IEEE WCSP 10-Year Anniversary Excellent Paper Award in 2019. His research interests cover various aspects of wireless communications, networking, and signal processing.

Muhammad Awais:

I am Muhammad Awais, a driven academic and researcher with a deep passion for computer science and communication systems. I hold a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Sargodha under the supervision of Prof. Dr Muhammad Ilyas and an MS degree in Computer Science from COMSATS University Islamabad under the supervision of Prof. Dr Nadeem Javaid. I have contributed to academia as a research associate in the Communications over Sensors Research Group at COMSATS University Islamabad. I completed my PhD at the School of Computing and Communications under the supervision of Prof. Qiang Ni and Dr. Haris Pervaiz from Lancaster University, where I also worked as a teaching assistant and assistant dean. My dissertation focuses on innovative, sustainable, and energy-efficient Resource Scheduling in Integrated NTN systems for 6G, aiming to enhance Quality of Service (QoS) and latency aspects. I’m passionate about UAV-based future-generation wireless networks, 5G and beyond wireless communication, and artificial intelligence for wireless communication. I’m also engaged in digital twins and intelligent short-term and long-term forecasting in the Smart Grid. As an active student member of IEEE, I’ve authored over 30 articles in technical journals and international conferences. I also serve as a Regular Reviewer for numerous ISI-indexed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing. Additionally, I hold a best paper award certificate from an international conference, namely EIDWT 2019.

Zihan Chen:

Zihan Chen received his Ph.D. degree from the Singapore University of Technology and Design-National University of Singapore Joint Ph.D. Program in 2022. Currently, he is an Associate Researcher Fellow at SUTD. His research mainly focuses on federated learning and network intelligence.

Muhammad Ali Jamshed:

Dr. Muhammad Ali Jamshed (Senior Member IEEE) is with the University of Glasgow since 2021. He is endorsed by Royal Academy of Engineering under exceptional talent category and was nominated for Departmental Prize for Excellence in Research in 2019 and 2020 at the University of Surrey. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy UK, and an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensor Journal, IEEE Communication Standard Magazine and IEEE IoT Magazine. He is a co-inventor of one patent and has more than 70 publications in top tier international journals, including, IEEE Transactions and Magazines, flagship IEEE COMSOC conferences, such as ICC, VTC, INFOCOM, WCNC, etc. He is an editor of 4 books on topics related to Low exposure EMF devices (Wiley and IEEE Press), multimodal sensing applications (Wiley), non-terrestrial networks (Springer) and Green and Sustainable IoT (Elsevier). He has been the Lead Guest Editor for Special Issues in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (2024-25), in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2024-25), and in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (2023-24). He has been serving as General Chair for over 10 workshops at IEEE international conferences such as at IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, IEEE VTC Fall 2024, IEEE MECOM 2024, IEEE CAMAD 2023, IEEE WCNC 2023, IEEE PIMRC 2022-23, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, IEEE VTC Spring 2022-23, IEEE CAMAD 2023, and IEEE CAMAD 2019. He has been TPC Member at IEEE ICC 2022-24 IEEE VTC Spring 2024, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, and Sessions Chair at IEEE VTC Spring 2022 and IEEE WCNC 2019 and 2023. He is a founding member of IEEE Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things.

Chenyuan Feng:

Chenyuan Feng received the Ph.D. degree in information system technology and design from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore in 2021. Currently, she is an Associate Researcher Fellow at EURECOM, France. Her research interests include edge intelligence, federated learning and generative AI for future communication. She received the IEEE ComComAp Best Paper Award in 2021, serves as an Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and a Track-chair at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology. She is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholar.

Nadeem Javaid:

Nadeem completed his Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Est, France, in 2010 with the thesis “Analysis and Design of Routing Link Metrics for Quality Routing in Wireless Multi-hop Networks .” He is currently working as a Professor and founding head of the Communications over Sensors (ComSens) Research Lab at the International Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu City, Yunlin County 640301, Taiwan. He has supervised 203 master’s and 35 Ph.D. theses and authored over 950 papers in technical journals and international conferences. His research interests include energy optimization in smart/microgrids, wireless sensor networks, IoT, data analytics, blockchain, etc.

Nikolaos Pappas:

Nikolaos Pappas received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Crete, Greece in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. His main research interests include the field of wireless communication networks with an emphasis on semantics-aware communications, energy harvesting networks, network-level cooperation, age of information, and stochastic geometry. Dr. Pappas has served as the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2022 and the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2022. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL on “Age of Information and Data Semantics for Sensing, Communication and Control Co-Design in IoT.” He is an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE/KICS JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS, and a former Editor of the IEEE ON COMMUNICATIONS and the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He is Area Editor of the IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY and an Expert Editor for invited papers of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He has organized several workshops and special sessions relevant to URLLC and Age of Information in conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE SPAWC.

Ishtiaq Ahmad:

Ishtiaq Ahmad is a Post-doc Research Fellow at the 6G Mobile Research Lab at Czech Technical University in Prague. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2007 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electronic engineering from Inha University, South Korea, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He has been a Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department, Gomal University, Pakistan, since 2008. His research interests include interference management in 3GPP LTE-A and 5G/6G systems, public safety and mobile ad-hoc networks (especially for UAV), cellular-V2X technology, maritime and underwater communications, and applications of artificial intelligence technologies. He received the Jungseok International Scholarship for his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Inha University due to his excellent academic career. He received the Outstanding Research Award and the Excellent Student Award from Inha University in 2019 for his excellence in journal publication and outstanding research achievements. He is a Lead Guest Editor for numerous prestigious IEEE journals and magazines. He is Technical Reviewer of several prestigious Journals/Magazines like IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Network, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), Elsevier Vehicular Communication, Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, IEEE Access, Nature Scientific Reports and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.

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