Unless otherwise specified all locations will be in Fairmont Banff Springs, Alberta Conference Room
Conference Schedule
SUNDAY, MAY 19
08:30 - 16:30 (Optional) Full-Day Tour: "Discover Banff and Lake Louise"
17:00 - 18:00 (Optional) Free Golf Lessons
18:30 - 20:00 Welcome reception (Mt Stephen Hall)
MONDAY, MAY 20
08:30 - 09:20 Keynote – Ness Shroff (Ohio State University)
Title: AI-EDGE: Designing Future XG Networks and Distributed Intelligence
09:20 - 09:45 Coffee break
09:45 - 11:45 Session 1: Communication Theory for Open RAN
Organizers: Kaushik Chowdhury and Michele Polese (Northeastern University)
Session chair: Michele Polese (Northeastern University)
Speaker 1: Petar Popovoski (Aalborg University)
Title: Modeling and Guaranteeing Latency in Open RAN
Speaker 2: Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven University)
Title: Cell-Free mMIMO in the Open RAN Architecture
Speaker 3: Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M University)
Title: Structured Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation in O-RAN
Speaker 4: Dinesh Bharadia (University of California San Diego)
Title: EdgeRIC: Delivering Real-Time RAN Intelligence – Theory to Practice
Panel discussion
11:45 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 12:30 Award Talks Session: Goldsmith Awardees
Speaker 1: Baturalp Buyukates (University of Southern California)
Title: Foundations of Trustworthy Collaborative Machine Learning
Speaker 2: Jia Ye (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Title: RIS and Non-Terrestrial Networks: Enhancing Connectivity and Energy Systems
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Keynote – Christoph Studer (ETH)
Title: Algorithms, Architectures, and Hardware Implementations for Beyond-5G MIMO Systems
14:50 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 17:15 Session 2: Hardware and 6G
Organizer and chair: Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong)
Speaker 1: Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University)
Title: Massive Synchrony
Speaker 2: Kai Kit Wong (University College London)
Title: Early Implementation of Fluid Antenna System (FAS)
Speaker 3: Sundeep Rangan (New York University)
Title: Communication and Circuit Co-Design
Speaker 4: Chan-Byoung Chae (Yonsei University)
Title: Seeing is Believing: Prototyping for 6G
Panel discussion
Additional panelists:
- Reinaldo Valenzuela (Nokia Bell Labs)
- Matthew Valenti (West Virginia University)
17:15 - 18:15 Poster Session 1 (Riverview Lounge)
TUESDAY, MAY 21
08:30 - 09:20 Keynote – Moe Win (MIT)
Title: Quantum Nexus for Sensing, Communication, Control, and Computing
09:20 - 9:45 Coffee break
09:45 - 11:45 Session 3: Quantum Internet
Organizer and chair: Marco Chiani (University of Bologna)
Speaker 1: Lara Dolecek (University of California Los Angeles)
Title: QKD for Quantum Networks
Speaker 2: Andrea Conti (University of Ferrara)
Title: Quantum State Characterization, Design, and Discrimination
Speaker 3: Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales)
Title: Quantum Communications via Satellites
Speaker 4: Hyundong Shin (Kyung Hee University)
Title: Counterfactual Quantum Communication: Information Exchange in Quantum Shadows
Panel discussion
Additional panelists:
- Jack Winters (Lockheed Martin RMS),
- Petar Popovski (Aalborg University)
11:45 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 12:30 Award Talks Session: Early Achievement Awardees
Speaker 1: Giovanni Geraci (Telefonica Research and Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: Model-Based and Data-Driven Cell Optimization for 3D Coverage and Capacity
Speaker 2: Hien Quoc Ngo (Queen's University Belfast)
Title: Virtually Full-Duplex Cell-Free Massive MIMO
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Keynote – Aaron Wagner (Cornell University)
Title: Wasserstein Distortion: Unifying Fidelity and Realism
14:50 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 17:15 Session 4: New Approaches to Data Compression and Communications
Organizer and chair: Ayfer Ozgur (Stanford University)
Speaker 1: Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Neural Compression With Lattice Transform Coding
Speaker 2: Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University)
Title: Textual Transform Coding
Speaker 3: Jun Chen (McMaster University)
Title: Universal Rate-Distortion-Perception Coding in the Quadratic Wasserstein Space
Speaker 4: Natasha Devroye (University of Illinois Chicago)
Title: Interpreting Deep-Learned Error-Correcting Codes
Speaker 5: Krishna Narayanan (Texas A&M University)
Title: In-context Estimation for Wireless Communications Using Transformers
Panel discussion
17:15 - 18:15 Poster Session 2 (Riverview Lounge)
19:00 - 21:00 Banquet (Tickets required)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
08:30 - 9:20 Keynote 5: Wen Tong (Huawei Technologies Canada)
Title: True Distributed Network-AI Learning - A Non-Federated Learning Approach
09:20 - 09:45 Coffee break
09:45 - 12:00 Session 5: 6G Challenges and Opportunities
Organizer: Jinfeng Du (Nokia Bell Labs)
Speaker 1: Eric Hardouin (Orange)
Title: An Operator's Perspective on 6G
Speaker 2: Angel Lozano (University Pompeu Fabra)
Title: An Academic's Perspective on 6G Research
Speaker 3: Rainer Iraschko (TELUS)
Title: Journey Towards O-RAN
Speaker 4: Ozge Koymen (Qualcomm)
Title: 6G Design Challenges
Panel discussion
Additional panelists:
Azimeh Sefidcon (Nokia Bell Labs)
Hui-Wen Yao (AST SpaceMobile)
12:00 - 12:10 Closing remarks
