We are delighted to share the ComSoc Best YP Award winners for this year. Before we move forward, we are thankful to the 2020 jury members for their hard work and careful review of every nomination we received. This year we received a total of 39 nominations, out of which 32 were eligible nominations, followed by two round reviews and…
In this blog, Dr. Haijun Zhang (M'13, SM'17) will discuss the AI aided resource allocation for future mobile networks. Dr. Haijun Zhang is currently a Full Professor at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, China, where he is the Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of…
This year has been very tough! The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all of us, one way or the other. This uncomfortable situation has limited our plans to gather in-person like we did last year in ICC , WCNC, and several other venues in various parts of the world. But it has not and will not hold us knowing each other…
In this blog, Sabah Suhail (first in the picture) and Dr. Rasheed Hussain (second in the picture) will discuss blockchain and provenance in supply chain. Sabah Suhail is a Ph.D. scholar at Kyung Hee University, Korea, and Rasheed Hussain is currently working as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Institute of Information Security and Cyber-Physical Systems at Innopolis…
In this blog, we have John Benedict Boggala, who is currently working with Amazon as a manager for its digital and devices support team. He was the founding chair for the All India PES Student/YP and WIE congress in Bangalore and co-organized the YP tracks in three successive editions of the All India CS Congress. He also participated in multiple…
In this blog, Madhur Arora will discuss the implications of 5G in the healthcare domain. Madhur is a technical evangelist and a polyglot programmer. He is currently working as a 5G technology specialist within Innovations Lab in the United Kingdom. He has a proven track record of considerable technical expertise to deliver innovation around customer experience and provide quantifiable business…
In this blog, Sabah Suhail (first in the picture) and Dr. Rasheed Hussain (second in the picture) will discuss quantum-safe hash-based signature to safeguard the internet of things ecosystem. Sabah Suhail is a Ph.D. scholar at Kyung Hee University, Korea. Her research interests include provenance, security, privacy issues in the Internet of Things, distributed ledger technology, and quantum computing. Rasheed Hussain is currently working…
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…
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…
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…