Technical Program

Thursday, July 1

Thursday, July 1 9:00 - 9:45

Keynote 1: Peiying Zhu (Huawei)

Thursday, July 1 10:00 - 11:30

Session 1: Advancing the Physical Layer towards 6G

• OTFS vs OFDM: Performance-complexity Trade-offs
Emanuele Viterbo, Monash University, Australia




Bio: Emanuele Viterbo (F'11) is Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 in Electrical Engineering, from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. From 1990 to 1992 he was with the European Patent Office, The Hague, The Netherlands, as a patent examiner in the field of dynamic recording and error-control coding. Between 1995 and 1997 he held a post-doctoral position in the Dipartimento di Elettronica of the Politecnico di Torino. In 1997-98 he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Information Sciences Research Center of AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. From 1998 to 2005, he worked as Assistant and then Associate Professor, in Dipartimento di Elettronica at Politecnico di Torino. In 2006 he became Professor at University of Calabria, Italy and in 2010 he joined Monash University. Prof. Emanuele Viterbo is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher(2009). He is the General Co-Chair of the upcoming 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. Prof. Emanuele Viterbo was awarded a NATO Advanced Fellowship in 1997 from the Italian National Research Council. His main research interests are in coding and modulation for wireless communications, algebraic coding theory, algebraic space-time coding.

• Extreme Bandwidth Communication for 6G Wireless Networks
Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia




Bio: Mohamed-Slim Alouini is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the OSA. He is currently particularly interested in addressing the technical challenges associated with the uneven distribution, access to, and use of information and communication technologies in far-flung, rural, low-density populations, low-income, and/or hard-to-reach areas.

• Holographic MIMO Communications
Luca Sanguinetti, University of Pisa, Italy




Bio: Prof. Luca Sanguinetti received the Laurea Telecommunications Engineer degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. From June 2007 to June 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton. From July 2013 to October 2017, he was with the Large Systems and Networks Group (LANEAS), CentraleSupélec, France. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa. His expertise and general interests span the areas of communications and signal processing He has coauthored two textbooks: "Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and Hardware Efficiency" (2017) and "Foundations of User-centric Cell-free Massive MIMO" (2020). Dr. Sanguinetti received the Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2018. He is an IEEE Senior Member.

• What might not be in 5G?
Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University, Sweden




Bio: Erik G. Larsson is Professor at Linköping University, Sweden, and Fellow of the IEEE. He co-authored the textbook Fundamentals of Massive MIMO (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He received, among others, the IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize in Communications Theory in 2015, the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2017, the IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2018, and the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2019. His interest lie within wireless communications, statistical signal processing, and networks.

Thursday, July 1 13:00 - 14:00

Panel: Can 5G be good enough?

• Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu, Finland



Bio: Matti Latva-aho received the M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr. Tech (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996 and 1998, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland after which he joined Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho was Director of CWC during the years 1998-2006 and Head of Department for Communication Engineering until August 2014. Currently he serves as Academy of Finland Professor and is Director for National 6G Flagship Programme. His research interests are related to mobile broadband communication systems and currently his group focuses on 6G systems research. Prof. Latva-aho has published over 500 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications. He received Nokia Foundation Award in 2015 for his achievements in mobile communications research.

• Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University, Sweden



Bio: Erik G. Larsson is Professor at Linköping University, Sweden, and Fellow of the IEEE. He co-authored the textbook Fundamentals of Massive MIMO (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He received, among others, the IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize in Communications Theory in 2015, the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2017, the IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2018, and the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2019. His interest lie within wireless communications, statistical signal processing, and networks.

• Reinaldo Valenzuela, Nokia Bell Labs, USA



Bio: Reinaldo A. Valenzuela: Member National Academy of Engineering, Fellow IEEE. IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. Bell Labs Fellow. WWRF Fellow, 2014 IEEE CTTC Technical Achievement Award, 2015 IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award. B.Sc. U. of Chile, Ph.D. Imperial College. Director, Communication Theory Department, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories. Engaged in propagation measurements and models, MIMO/space time systems achieving high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays, HetNets, small cells and next generation air interface techniques and architectures. He has published 190 papers and 44 patents. He has near 30,000 Google Scholar citations and is a 'Highly Cited Author' In Thomson ISI and a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

Peiying Zhu, Huawei, Canada




Bio: Dr. Peiying Zhu, Senior Vice President of Wireless Research, is a Huawei Fellow, IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. She is currently leading 5G beyond and 6G wireless research and standardization in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced radio access technologies. She led the team to contribute significantly to 5G technologies and standardization. She has been regularly giving talks and panel discussions on 5G/B5G vision and enabling technologies. She is actively involved in 3GPP and IEEE 802 standards development. She served as the guest editor for IEEE Signal processing magazine special issue on the 5G revolution and IEEE JSAC on Deployment Issues and Performance Challenges for 5G. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Peiying was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology in the Nortel Wireless Technology Lab. She led the team and pioneered research and prototyping on MIMO-OFDM and Multi-hop relay. Many of these technologies developed by the team have been adopted into LTE standards and 4G products.

Thursday, July 1 14:15 - 16:00

Session 2: Vertical Industries on the road to 6G

• 6G requirements and (some) key technical challenges
Marie-Helene Hamon, Orange, France




Bio: Marie-Helene Hamon received the Eng. Degree from Ecole Superieure d’Electricité (now CentraleSupelec) and MSc from Ohio State University. She joined Orange and has been involved in various national and international research projects on wireless broadband communication systems, as researcher on digital communications and then as project manager. Her research interests are on design of wireless communication systems, and more specifically error correcting codes, energy-efficient design of wireless technologies, millimetre-waves communication system design. She is now Research Program Manager.

• 5G for industries and the way towards 6G
Sara Sandberg, Ericsson, Sweden




Bio: Sara Sandberg is project manager for the project focusing on 5G and beyond for industries at Ericsson Research. This project comprises topics like standardization for industrial IoT, collaboration projects, and related research concepts towards 6G. Sara's main research interest is 5G technologies for industrial IoT with focus on the physical layer. Sara received her M.Sc. degree in engineering physics and her Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden, in 2002 and 2009, respectively. She joined Ericsson Research in Luleå, Sweden, in 2011.

• Network-aware Distributed Computing
Arne Broering, Siemens, Germany




Bio: Arne Bröring is a Senior Key Expert Research Scientist at Siemens Technology in Munich. He received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Twente (Netherlands). Dr. Bröring has contributed to over 90 publications in the field of distributed systems and has served on various program committees and editorial boards. His research interests range from distributed system designs, over sensor networks, and Semantic Web, to the Internet of Things. At Siemens, he has been in charge of the technical & scientific coordination of large EU research projects (BIG IoT and IntellIoT). Before joining Siemens, Dr. Bröring worked for the Environmental Systems Research Institute in Zurich, the 52°North Open Source Initiative, and led the Sensor Web and Simulation Lab at the University of Münster.

• Do vertical industries really need 6G?
Andreas Muller, Bosch, Germany




Bio: Dr. Andreas Mueller is the Head of Communication and Network Technology in the Corporate Research Department of Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany and at the same time the Bosch Chief Expert for Communication Technologies for the IoT. In addition to that, he is coordinating the Industrial 5G activities of Bosch across the different business units. He also serves as General Chair of the “5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation” (5G-ACIA), the globally leading initiative for driving and shaping Industrial 5G. Prior to joining Bosch, Andreas was a Research Staff Member at the Institute of Telecommunications of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he was contributing to the further development of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution towards LTE-Advanced. Besides, he was working as a Systems Engineer for Rohde & Schwarz, developing a novel software-defined radio based communication system for the German Armed Forces. Andreas holds a German Diploma degree as well as a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) and a M.Sc. degree in Information Technology, all from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

• 6G: mm Wave for factory Automation
Reinaldo Valenzuela, Nokia Bell Labs, USA




Bio: Reinaldo A. Valenzuela: Member National Academy of Engineering, Fellow IEEE. IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. Bell Labs Fellow. WWRF Fellow, 2014 IEEE CTTC Technical Achievement Award, 2015 IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award. B.Sc. U. of Chile, Ph.D. Imperial College. Director, Communication Theory Department, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories. Engaged in propagation measurements and models, MIMO/space time systems achieving high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays, HetNets, small cells and next generation air interface techniques and architectures. He has published 190 papers and 44 patents. He has near 30,000 Google Scholar citations and is a 'Highly Cited Author' In Thomson ISI and a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

Friday, July 2

Friday, July 2 9:00 - 9:45

Keynote 2: Ullrich Pfeiffer (University of Wuppertal)

Friday, July 2 10:00 - 11:30

Session 3: 6G: A broader scope

• 6G Satellite Communications
Ana Pérez, CTTC and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain




Bio: Ana Pérez is full professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in the Signal Theory and Communication department since 2006 and was Vice rector for Research (2010-14). She is fellow researcher at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, where she is the Scientific Coordinator and responsible of the SatCom activities. Her research is in signal processing for communications, focused on satellite communications. She has more than 60 journal papers and 300 conference papers. She is co-author of 7 books. She has leaded more than 20 projects and holds 8 patents. She is the coordinator of the Networks of Excellence on satellite communications, financed by the European Space Agency: SatnexIV-V. She has been associate editor of the IEEE TSP and EURASIP SP and ASP. Currently she is senior area editor of IEEE OJSP. She is member of the BoG of the IEEE SPS and Vice-President for conferences (2021-23). She is IEEE Fellow and member of the Real Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona (RACAB). She is recipient for the 2018 EURASIP Society Award and she has been the general chair of IEEE ICASSP’20 (the first big IEEE virtual conference held by IEEE with more than 15.000 attendees).

• Control and Communication Co-design for Networked Systems
Karl H. Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden




Bio: Karl H. Johansson is Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and Director of Digital Futures. He received MSc and PhD degrees from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Caltech, NTU, HKUST Institute of Advanced Studies, and NTNU. His research interests are in networked control systems and cyber-physical systems with applications in transportation, energy, and automation networks. He is a member of the Swedish Research Council's Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences. He has served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors, the IFAC Executive Board, and is currently Vice-President of the European Control Association. He has received several best paper awards and other distinctions from IEEE, IFAC, and ACM. He has been awarded Distinguished Professor with the Swedish Research Council and Wallenberg Scholar with the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He has received the Future Research Leader Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and the triennial Young Author Prize from IFAC. He is Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and he is IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer.

• Green 6G: A New Horizon
Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China




Bio: Zhisheng Niu graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University, China, in 1985, and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. During 1992-94, he worked for Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan, and in 1994 joined with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he is now a professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering. His major research interests include queueing theory and traffic engineering, wireless communications and mobile Internet, vehicular communications and smart networking, and green communication and networks. Dr. Niu has been serving IEEE Communications Society since 2000, first as Chair of Beijing Chapter (2000-2008) and then as Director of Asia-Pacific Board (2008-2009), Director for Conference Publications (2010-2011), Chair of Emerging Technologies Committee (2014-2015), and Director for Online Contents (2018-2019). He has also served as editor of IEEE Wireless Communication (2009-2013) and associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CIC joint publication China Communications (2012-2016), and currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Green Commun. & Networks (2020-2022). He received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Natural Science Foundation of China in 2009, Best Paper Awards from IEEE Communication Society Asia-Pacific Board in 2013 and from Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN) in 2019, Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award from IEEE Communications Society Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee in 2018, and Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences from IEEE Communication Society in 2019. He was selected as a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Communication Society (2012-2015) as well as IEEE Vehicular Technologies Society (2014-2018). He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and IEICE.

• Localization in 5G and Beyond: enablers, methodologies, and challenges
Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden




Bio: Henk Wymeersch is a Professor in Communication Systems with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is also a Distinguished Research Associate with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven). Prior to joining Chalmers, he was a Postdoctoral Associate during 2006-2009 with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Applied Sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. He has served as Associate Editor for several IEEE journals and also as General Chair of the 2015 International Conference on Localization and GNSS. Awards include an ERC Starting Grant and a Chalmers supervision award. He leads the CROSSNET team at Chalmers. For more information, see https://sites.google.com/site/hwymeers/

Friday, July 2 9:00 - 9:45

Keynote 3: Mathias Fink (Langevin Institute)

Friday, July 2 14:15 - 16:00

Session 4: Machine Learning and Communications

• Deploy Federated Learning in Large-scale Wireless Networks
Kaibin Huang, The University of Hong Kong




Bio: Kaibin Huang is an Associate Professor and an Associate Head in the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He received the IEEE Communication Society’s 2021 Best Survey Paper, 2019 Best Tutorial Paper, 2019 Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper, 2015 Asia Pacific Best Paper Awards as well as Best Paper Awards at IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 and IEEE/CIC ICCC 2018. He is an Executive Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an Associate Editor for Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), and an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the IEEE Communications and Vehicular Technology Societies. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2019 and 2020.

• End-to-end Waveform Learning with PAPR and ACLR Constraints
Jakob Hoydis, NVIDIA, France




Bio: Jakob Hoydis (jhoydis@nvidia.com) is a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA, Paris, France, where he works on the intersection of machine learning and 6G. From 2015-2021, he was with Nokia Bell Labs, Paris, France. He obtained the diploma degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and the Ph.D. degree from Supelec, France, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. From 2019-2021, he was chair of the IEEE COMSOC Emerging Technology Initiative on Machine Learning as well as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Since 2019, he is Area Editor of the IEEE JSAC Series on Machine Learning in Communications and Networks.

• Over-The-Air Computation in Fading Wireless Channels with Applications to Federated Learning
Slawomir Stanczak, TU Berlin and Fraunhofer HHI, Germany




Bio: Slawomir Stanczak studied electrical engineering with specialization in control theory at the Wroclaw University of Technology and at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin). He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1998 and the Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering in 2003, both from TU Berlin; the Habilitation degree (venialegendi) followed in 2006. Since 2015, he has been a Full Professor for network information theory with TU Berlin and the head of the Wireless Communications and Networks department at Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI). Prof. Stanczak  is a co-author of two books and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the area of information theory, wireless communications, signal processing and machine learning. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing between 2012 and 2015. Since February 2018 Prof. Stanczak has been the chairman of the ITU-T focus group on machine learning for future networks including 5G. 

• Learning to Beamform and to Reflect Without Explicit Channel Estimation
Wei Yu, University of Toronto, Canada




Bio: Wei Yu received the B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1997 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. He received the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2019, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication in 2019, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2017 and 2008, and the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2015. He is currently the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society.