6GNet 2023 Keynotes
Keynote #1
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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. He served as Academy of Finland Professor in 2017 – 2021. Currently he is professor at the University of Oulu on wireless communications and Director for the National 6G Flagship Programme. He is also a Global Fellow (Visiting Professor) with The University of Tokyo. 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.
Keynote #2
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Van-Tam Nguyen
(Télécom Paris Tech, France)
Bio: Van-Tam Nguyen was born in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam, in 1975. He received the Diplôme d’Ingenieur from Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (Supelec), the M.Sc. degree in automatic and signal processing from University Paris XI, the graduation degree in image processing from EPFL, Switzerland, in 2000, the Ph.D. degree in communications and electronic from Ecole Nationnale Superieure des Telecommunications (Telecom ParisTech) in 2004, and the H.D.R. degree from University Paris VI in 2016. From 2000 to 2005, he was mainly with the European Project SPRING (Scientific Multidisciplinary Network for metering–IST-1999- 12342) with Schlumberger and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications. Since 2005, he has been with the faculty of Telecom ParisTech, where he is currently an Associate Professor (on leave) with the Communications and Electronic Department. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Senior Marie Curie Fellow with UC Berkeley. He held visiting positions with the University of Aizu, Japan, in 2012 and UC Berkeley in 2013 and 2014. He was also a Rank A Guest Researcher with NICT, Japan, from 2012 to 2013, where he proposed a surveillance game for reliability and worked on radio resource management for cognitive radio systems. He was a Visiting Associate Professor from 2016 to 2017.,At UC Berkeley and Stanford, he proposed and designed the COGNICOM concept, a brain-inspired software–hardware paradigm, to support IoT’s future growth. COGNICOM brings computing closer to end-user and focuses on optimal uses of local smart application gateway and cloud computing. COGNICOM consists of two key components: cognitive engine and smart connectivity (SC). Since 2018, he has been the CEO of Institute of Applied Technology. He is now Head of the Communications and Electronics department at Telecom Paris.
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Rahim Tafazolli
(University of Surrey, UK)
Bio: Regius Rahim Tafazolli, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, IET, WWRF and Regius Professor of Electronic Engineering, Professor of Mobile and Satellite Communications, Founder and Director of 5GIC, 6GIC and ICS (Institute for Communication System) at the University of Surrey. He has over 30 years of experience in digital communications research and teaching. He has authored and co-authored more than 1000 research publications and is regularly invited to deliver keynote talks and distinguished lectures to international conferences and workshops. He was an advisor to the Mayor of London (Boris Johnson) on London 2050 Infrastructure.
Keynote #4
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Halim Yanikomeroglu
(Carleton University, Canada)
Bio: Halim Yanikomeroglu received the BSc degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the MASc degree in electrical engineering and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. Since 1998 he has been with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he is now a Full Professor.
Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s research interests cover many aspects of wireless communications and networks, with a special emphasis on non-terrestrial networks (NTN) in the recent years. He has given 110+ invited seminars, keynotes, panel talks, and tutorials in the last five years. He has supervised or hosted over 150 postgraduate researchers in his lab at Carleton. Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s extensive collaborative research with industry resulted in 39 granted patents. Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). He is a Distinguished Speaker for the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and an Expert Panelist of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA|CAC).
Dr. Yanikomeroglu is currently serving as the Chair of the Steering Committee of IEEE’s flagship wireless event, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). He is also a member of the IEEE ComSoc Governance Council, IEEE ComSoc GIMS, IEEE ComSoc Conference Council, and IEEE PIMRC Steering Committee. He served as the General Chair and Technical Program Chair of several IEEE conferences. He has also served in the editorial boards of various IEEE periodicals.
Dr. Yanikomeroglu received several awards for his research, teaching, and service, including the IEEE ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications TC Recognition Award (2023), IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2021), IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award (2020), and IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications TC Recognition Award (2018). He received best paper awards at IEEE Competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks for B5G and 6G in 2022 (grand prize), IEEE ICC 2021, IEEE WISEE 2021 and 2022.