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Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Thuwal, Makkah Province,

Saudi Arabia

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Mohamed-Slim Alouini (S'94, M'98, SM'03, F’09) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009.

Prof. Junaid Qadir

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Information Technology University

Lahore, Pakistan

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Junaid Qadir completed PhD from University of New South Wales, Australia in 2008 and his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from UET, Lahore, Pakistan in 2000. He serves as an Associate Professor at the Information Technology University, Punjab, Lahore since December 2015. Previously, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), from 2008 to 2015.  

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Prof. Mahesh K. Marina

 

Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA)

School of Informatics

The University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland

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Mahesh K. Marina is with the university of Edinburgh since November 2006. Previously, He worked as a research staff member in the Computer Science department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as part of the Mobile Systems Laboratory headed by Prof. Rajive Bagrodia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in August 2004 from State University of New York at Stony Brook, where his advisor was Prof. Samir Das. Earlier,

High-speed Underwater Wireless Optical Communication: Potential, Challenges, and Possible Solutions

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Traditional underwater communication systems rely on acoustic modems due their reliability and long range. However their limited data rates, lead to the exploration of alternative techniques. In this talk, we briefly go over the potential offered by underwater wireless optical communication systems. We then summarizes some of the underwater channel challenges going from severe absorption and scattering  that need to be surpassed before such kind of systems can be deployed in practice. We finally present some of the on-going research directions in the area of underwater wireless optical communication systems in order to (i) better characterize and model the underwater optical channel and (ii) design, develop, and test experimentally new suitable modulation and coding techniques suitable for this environment.

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Prof. Alouini is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge list of Highly Cited Researchers and of the  Elsevier/Shanghai Ranking list of Most Cited Researchers, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a recipient of the Recognition Award of the IEEE ComSoc Wireless Technical Committee in 2016 and a co-recipient of best paper awards in ten IEEE conferences (including ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, PIMRC, and DySPAN). His current research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

5G Enabled Health: The Promise of Big Data, AI, and Communication for Healthcare

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The unprecedented rapid adoption of mobile technology has motivated great interest in using mobile technology for health (mHealth). Bolstering the mHealth promise are three important trends: Firstly, big data—through which there has been unprecedented commoditization and opening up of data through the instrumentation of modern phones and environments (e.g., using the native sensors in mobile phones or using embedded devices in the so-called Internet of Things). This opens up the opportunity of collecting individual level ``small data’’ that can be used to provide personalized healthcare. Secondly, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) advances have democratized diagnostic capabilities to some extent and further significant improvement is expected. With advances in computational capabilities of mobile phones, and with resource augmentation from clouds,  it will be possible to support data and computation intensive mHealth applications. Finally, high-performance communication (e.g., high throughput and low latency) capabilities can change the landscape of healthcare in terms of operational efficiency and accuracy and enable a range of telehealth services. In this talk, we will present the research agenda for bringing the 5G-Enabled Health revolution.

He has served in the program committee of a number of international conferences and reviews regularly for various high-quality journals. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Springer Nature Big Data Analytics, Springer Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, and the IEEE Communications Magazine. He is the lead guest editor of the special section titled “Health informatics for the developing world” for IEEE Access. He is a member of ACM, and a senior member of IEEE.

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5G-XHaul: A wireless-optical transport network with SDN control for converged fronthaul and backhaul services in 5G 

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This talk will provide an up to date status of the 5G-XHaul project (http://www.5g-xhaul-project.eu/), which is a project belonging to the 5GPPP initiative. The talk will introduce the challenges introduced by upcoming 5G RANs in terms of transport requirements, and will present the 5G-XHaul architecture designed to address those challenges. The talk will also provide highlights into the various technology developments carried out in the project, which involve various wireless and optical technologies, such as Massive MIMO, hybrid Sub6/mmWave SDN controlled mesh networks, and passive and active optical technologies.

Previous to working at I2CAT, Daniel was a researcher at NEC Networks Laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany. At NEC Daniel focused on wireless networks, QoS, and energy efficiency, and was also involved in standardization for wireless LANs contributing both to the Wi-Fi Alliance and to the IEEE 802.11 working group.

Dr. Daniel Camps 

 

I2CAT Foundation

Barcelona, Spain

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Daniel Camps is currently leading the Mobile and Wireless Internet Group (MWI) at the I2CAT Foundation. Our group's insterest lies generally in the wireless domain, and specifically on embedding wireless interfaces in devices constrained in power and energy. Thus, 802.15.4, 802.11, 6LoWPAN, CoAP, and in general the Internet of Things (IoT) are technologies we enjoy tinkering with, always with an experimental approach. In addition to IoT we also investigate architectures and algorithms to improve the capacity of mobile communication networks, focusing here on Wi-Fi based access networks and on the application of logically centralized SDN protocols to improve performance and manageability of the wireless access. 

He obtained a M. S. (Computer Science) degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio in December 1999, and a B. Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) degree from the Regional Engineering College (now, National Institute of Technology), Warangal, India in May 1998.

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