Wireless, Telecommunication & IoT

Professor Ezendu Ariwa holds the position of Professor and Director of Studies (PhD Programmes) at London School of Commerce (Associate College of Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) and also holds the position of Director of Planning for International Outreach, IAMTECH University, Sierra Leone. He holds the position of Chair of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Chapter, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Ezendu is author of a number of books and papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has also delivered keynote speeches at various international conferences. He recently published a book on Green Technology Applications for Enterprise and Academic Innovation, Publisher: IGI Global, USA.

Green Technology and Corporate Sustainability, Strategic Information Systems, E-Learning and Knowledge Management, Consumer Electronics and Broadcast Technology, ICT for Development and Facilities Management, Knowledge Transfer in Developing Economy, Open Learning and Social Enterprise, Green Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, Renewable Energy and Climate Change, Social Media and Energy Management

Tetsuya Shimamura has completed his PhD from Keio University in 1991. He was Dean of Information Technology Center at Saitama Univerity and is a full professor currently there. He has published over 90 refereed journal articles and 220 international conference proceedings papers. He is an author or co-author of eight books, and a member of the organizing committee of several international conferences. He has received IEEE PACRIM, Gold Paper Award, in 2012, WSEAS MUSP, Best Paper Award, in 2013, and IEEE IFOST, Best Paper Award, in 2014. Also, he is a recipient of Journal of Signal Processing, Best Paper Award, in 2013, 2015, and 2016, and a recipient of Yahagi Commemorative Award, 2018.

His research interests are in Digital Signal Processing and its applications to speech, Audio, Image and Communication systems.

Guolin Sun received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees all in Communication and Information Systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2000, 2003 and 2005 respectively. Since graduated with Ph.D. in 2005, he has got eight years industrial work experience on wireless research and development for 4G/5G, Wi-Fi, Internet of Things, Cognitive radio, Localization and navigation. Before he joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UESTC as an Associate Professor in Aug. 2012, he worked in Huawei Technologies Sweden. Dr. Guolin Sun has filed over 40 patents, and published over 40 scientific conference and journal papers, acts as TPC member of conferences. Currently, he serves as a vice-chair of the 5G oriented cognitive radio special interest group of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) of the IEEE Communication Society. His general research interests include artificial intelligence, radio resource management, software defined networks, network function virtualization.

His general research interests include artificial intelligence, radio resource management, software defined networks, network function virtualization

Mathini Sellathurai is a Full Professor of signal processing and intelligent systems with Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. She is leading research in signal processing for wireless communications. She has published 200 IEEE entries, given invited talks and has written a book and several book chapters in topics related to this project. She was a recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Fred W. Ellersick Best Paper Award in 2005, the Industry Canada Public Service Awards for contributions in science and technology in 2005, and the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (Silver Medal) from NSERC Canada in 2002. She is also a member for IEEE SPCOM Technical Strategy Committee, an Editor of IEEE TSP from 2009. She is also the General Co-Chair of IEEE SPAWC2016 in Edinburgh.

Signal Processing for intelligent information infrastructures for wireless communications; radar technology, parasitic antenna technology and analogue beamforming and precoding techniques, adaptive, cognitive (intelligent) and statistical signal processing techniques in a range of applications including Radar, Lidar, Sonar and RF networks, Network Coding, Cognitive Radio, MIMO signal processing, satellite communications and underwater communications.

Mario Marques da Silva is an Associate Professor and Director of Department of Science and Technology at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. He is also a Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, in Lisbon, Portugal. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering in 1992, MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computers Engineering (Telecommunications), respectively in 1999 and 2005, both at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He has been involved in multiple networking and telecommunications projects. He is the author of five books published by CRC Press. He has chaired many conference sessions and has been serving in the organizing committee of relevant EURASIP and IEEE conferences.

5G, Telecommunication, Wireless Communication

Hosam El-Ocla has received the M.Sc. degree in the Electrical Engineering Department of Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt in 1996. He joined the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan in 1997 as a research student. He has been awarded the Doctor of Engineering degree in 2001 in the same University. Dr. El-Ocla joined Lakehead University since 2001 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007. His research interests are on waves propagation and scattering in random media. Also, he is working in computer communications, networks, and protocols particularly of wireless networks. Dr. El-Ocla is a senior member of IEEE (Antenna and Propagation Society). He used to be a member of Institute of Physics (IOP) (2006 to 2009), and technical committee member on telecommunications of IASTED (2005 to 2008). In addition, he is a Professional Engineer of Ontario (P.Eng.). He was invited for research visits to Ariake National College of Technology (Japan) and Manchester University (UK). In 2009 and during his one year sabbatical, he worked in King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He woked in both E-Learning and Distance Learning Deanship and the College of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department. Dr. El-Ocla has served as a reviewer for many journals such as: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Waves in Random and Complex Media etc. Also he was invited to chair sessions of several conferences. He is working on projects supported by NSERC and always welcome students and post-doc fellows to join his research team.

Wireless Networks, mobile IP, Ad Hoc networks, multimedia transmission, routing, Congestion control, Wave propagation, Scattering and RCS, Random media effects, Radar detection of real targets

Rudolf Bayer is an emeritus Professor of Informatics at Technical University of Munich where he had been employed since 1972. He is noted for inventing three data sorting structures: the B-tree (with Edward M McCreight), the UB-tree (with Volker Markl) and the red-black tree. He is a recipient of 2001 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F Codd Innovations Award. In 2005, he was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Wireless and Telecommunication

Aydin Azizi is a university professor at the German University of Technology, also he is the Research Focal Point of The Research Council of OMAN (TRC). His research area is Mechatronics focusing on developing and investigating different Artificial Intelligent Techniques to model, control and optimize the complex nonlinear systems. Aydin holds BSc. MSc and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering.

Mechatronics, System dynamic simulation, control and optimization, Algorithm development, Artificial Intelligence,Control & Automation, Mechanical Vibration, Industrial Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Optimization Techniques, Probability & Statistics, Computational Intelligence, Decision Making, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation Techniques

Mohammed Bawatna received a M.Sc. in Electronic and Communication Engineering (2015) from AL-QUDS University in East-Jerusalem (Palestine). He started his Ph.D. at the Central Institute of Engineering, Electronics and Analytics institute (ZEA 2) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in Germany. The Ph.D. is supervised by Prof. van Waasen, and performed within the BMBF funded project ‘Characterization, monitoring and modelling of landslide-prone hillslopes (CMM-SLIDE)’. In cooperation with partners from IBG-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH a near real-time monitoring system to improve early warning of slope instability shall be developed. His primary research interests include Networking, and Wireless Communication.

Networking, and Wireless Communication, Wireless Sensor Network, Software Engineering, Artificial Neural Network.

Professor Ramjee Prasad, received a B.Sc. (eng) degree from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, India, and M.Sc. (Eng) and Ph.D degrees from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi, India, in 1968, 1970 and 1979, respectively. Since February 1988 he had been with the Telecommunications and Traffic-Control Systems Group of Delft University of Technology (DUT), The Netherlands, where he was actively involved in the area of wireless personal and multimedia communications (WPMC). He was head of the Transmission Research Section of International research Centre for Telecommunications Transmission and Radar (IRCTR) and also program director of the Centre for wireless Personal Communications (CEWPC).

Wireless Communication, IoT