General Co-Chairs:
Mona Ghassemian has over 20 years of experience in the wireless and telecom research in industry and academia. She currently works as 6G principal expert on industry vertical, working on strategic R&D roadmap of key technologies relevant for next generation mobile communication system design at Huawei Advanced wireless Technology Lab. Prior to her current role, in her senior manager position at InterDigital Inc, she led a research team on the next generation networking. She worked as a principal research scientist at British Telecom Research and Technology with a focus on future networks and security. Prior to her industry roles, she worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at KCL, Greenwich and SBU supervising over a 100 postdocs, PhD and MSc researchers. She has published over 70 papers, 13 patents, 2 book chapters and several contributions to 3GPP, IEEE and IETF standard organisations. She is a member of IEEE SA 1918.1 Tactile Internet WG, the IEEE UK & Ireland section past-chair and IEEE Region 8 standardisation sub-committee.
Mohammad S. Khan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA. He is also founding director of Network Science and Analysis Lab (NSAL). He earned his Ph.D., and Master’s degrees from the Speed School of Engineering at University of Louisville, Kentucky and his B.Sc., in Mathematics from University of Leicester in England. Dr. Khan’s primary area of research is in vehicular communications, wireless sensor networks, IoT, and computational intellegenceI. Dr. Khan has lead many Special Issue in his research related areas and currently serves as an associate editor in IEEE Access, IET ITS, IET WSS, Springer’s Neural Computing & Applications, and Telecommunications Systems jorunals, and Elsevier IoT Jorunal. Dr. Khan has served as a reviewer or TPC members in 60+ International conferences and workshops including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE LCN, IEEE VTC, Cyber-C, and many more. Furthermore, he has been reviewing papers in 50+ International Journals including IEEE Magazines on Intelligent Transport Systems, and Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and Vehicular Technologies.
Albena Mihovska has a PhD degree in EEng (2008) from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. She has a strong academic research track record as an Associate Professor at Aalborg University (2008-2017) and Aarhus University (2017-2023), Denmark. She is a Research Director at CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) Foundation, Skagen, Denmark. Further, she holds positions as a CTO at SmartAvatar B.V., The Netherlands, and as a Senior Research Expert at the Research&Innovation&Development Consortium (RDIC), Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a WG3 Vice-Chair of One6G Association, a Board Member of EUROMERSIVE and an ITU-T Focus Group on Metaverse (FGMV) Expert. She has more than 200 peer-reviewed research publications. She is Steering Committee Member of IEEE Black Sea Communications Conference, and a IEEE WCNC (2006-2017).
Gautam Srivastava Dr. Gautam Srivastava (Senior Member, IEEE) has extensive Editorial Experience including IEEE Trans on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans on Industrial Informatics, Computer Standards and Interfaces, Applied Stochastic Modeling and Business, Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ISA Transactions, IEEE Intelligent System, and IEEE Sensors. Dr. Gautam Srivastava was awarded a B.Sc. from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, the U.S.A. in 2004, followed by an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in the years 2006 and 2012, respectively. He then worked for 3 years at the University of Victoria in the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Engineering), where he was regarded as one of the top Undergraduate professors in Computer Science Course Instruction at the University. From there in 2014 he started a tenure-track position at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, where he currently is a Full Professor. Dr. G (as he is popularly known) is active in research in the fields of Data Mining and Big Data Security and Privacy. During his 10-year academic career, he has published a total of 400 papers in high-impact conferences and journals. He has also given guest lectures at many Taiwan universities in Big Data. He currently has active research projects with other academics in Norway, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, and the U.S.A.
Steering Committee
Dr. Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA
Dr. Xueli An, Huawei Technologies, Germany
Dr. David Lake, Awakening Health, Hong Kong
Dr. Maziar Nekovee, University of Sussex, UK
Dr. Sandip Sarkar, Cap Gemini, USA
Dr. Jorge Pereira European Commission, Belgium
TPC Co-Chairs
Dr. Mahasweta Sarkar, San Diego State University, USA
Dr. Neeli Prasad, SmartAvatar B.V., The Netherlands.
Dr. Taisir Elgorashi , King’s College, UK
Publicity Co-Chairs
Dr. Anand R. Prasad, Deloitte, Japan
Dr. Anirudh Paranjothi, Oklahoma State University, USA
Dr. Mahammad Mekala, Robert Goldon University, Scotland
Dr. Mohamed Baza, College of Charleston , USA
Keynote Co-Chairs
Dr. Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei, King’s College, UK
Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Greece
Technical Committee Members
Ernestina Cianca, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Vladimir Poulkov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Zaharias Zaharis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Pavlos Lazaridis, University of Huddersfield, UK
Sri Devi Ravana, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Rute Sophia, fortiss GMBH, Germany
Fernando J. Velez, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Paulo S. Rufino Henrique, Spideo, France
Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University, USA
Bayu Anggorojati, Monash University, Indonesia
Dr. Biju Bajracharya, East Tennessee State University, USA
Bhargav Appasani, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Sushanta Mohapatra, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Rizwan Patan, Kennesaw State University, USA
Alexandre J.R. Serres, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Duration of the Workshop: Half-Day workshop
