Blog – IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals

Future of Communications

Communication Technology through the New Decade

Post published:18 August 2020

Petar Popovski is a Professor and head of COnnectivity section at Aalborg University, Denmark Emil Björnson is an Associate Professor at Linköping University, Sweden. Federico Boccardi is a Principal Technology Advisor at Ofcom, United Kingdom The analyses, opinions and findings in this article represent the views of the authors and should not be interpreted as an official position of their…

Dr. Jung in one of his classes on optimization, Alto University

Personalized Explainable Machine Learning

Post published:10 August 2020

In this blog, Dr. Alex Jung will discuss an information-theoretic approach to personalized explainable machine learning. Alex obtained his MSc and Ph.D. at TU Vienna in 2008 and 2012, respectively. After Postdoc positions at ETH Zurich and TU Vienna, he joined Aalto University as Assistant Professors in 2015. He set up the group “Machine Learning for Big Data'' which studies…

YP Week at ICC 2020

Post published:9 June 2020

During the virtual ICC 2020, IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals hosted multiple webinars on career growth, volunteering and writing research proposals. These webinars were exclusively targeted at early career professionals attending the conference, but also open to anyone not attending the conference. Speakers for webinars included many experts such as Andrea Goldsmith from Stanford University, Jeff Andrews from UT Austin, Lajos…

Whats next for ComSoc YP?

Post published:25 May 2020

Read about our plans for next few months and come join us. Make sure to follow our activities

Caching for Self-Driving Cars in Multi-access Edge Computing

Post published:20 May 2020

In this blog, Dr. Anselme Ndikumana proposes to use deep learning based caching for self-driving cars in multi-access edge computing (MEC).

5 Years of Volunteering with IEEE ComSoc

Post published:12 May 2020

Lola Awoniyi-Oteri talks about her 5 year experience as a ComSoc Volunteer.

IEEE ICC 2019 ComSoc YP event photos

Post published:23 May 2019

We had a great event at IEEE ICC 2019 in Shanghai, China. IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals invited you to join a session on “Communicating Your Next Idea" with our guest speakers Urbashi Mitra and Ray Wang. The session was a great opportunity for Young Researchers and Practitioners to learn about challenges and best practices from the leaders of the Communications…

IEEE WCNC 2019 – ComSoc YP joint event with N2Women

Post published:16 May 2019

We were involved in a joint panel with N2Women in Morocco, at IEEE WCNC 2019. Afterwards, we had a great meal with YPs at a nearby restaurant. A fun evening to remember!

ComSoc YP Webinars are in full swing

Post published:16 May 2019

We had two webinars recently, organised for our ComSoc YP members. These were: 29 March, 2018 - Richard Cziva, PhD (Energy Sciences Network, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) talking about "Trends in Network Softwarization" 16 May, 2019 - Gilberto Basilio-Sanchez, PhD (Intel IOT Director for Canada, Mexico, Brazil and LATAM territory) talking about "IOT, the inevitable shift to innovation" We are…

IEEE INFOCOM ComSoc YP event

Post published:1 May 2019

At 1st of May, 2019, we had a networking session organised at IEEE INFOCOM in Paris. Thanks for our volunteers helping to make this event a success and thanks for all the YPs attending.