Guest Lectures and Tutorials
- Keynote speech, "Machine Learning Applications for 5G and Future Networks," 5GItaly PhD Training School, Rome, Italy, Dec. 2019.
- Keynote speech, "Machine Learning for Wireless Communications," WindMill EuropeanTraining School, Aalborg, Denmark, Nov. 2019.
- Invited Talk, "Machine Learning for 5G," Huawei Research Center, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 2019.
- Keynote speech, "Machine Learning for and with Wireless Communications," Symposium on Machine Learning for Wireless Communications, Networking, and Security, IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Ottawa, Canada, Nov. 2019.
- Invited Talk, "Machine Learning for and with Wireless Communications," Bogazici University, Nov. 2019.
- Invited Talk, "Learn to Communicate - Communicate to Learn," , Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Darmstadt, Germany, Oct. 2019.
- Keynote speech, "Machine Learning for Wireless Communications," Workshop of the Collaborative Research Center on Mobile Material Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing, Duisburg, Germany, Apr. 2019.
- Invited Lecture, "Joint Source and Channel Coding: Fundamental Bounds and Connections to Machine Learning," European School on Information Theory (ESIT), Antibes,France, Apr. 2019.
- Invited Lecture, 6th Training School on Machine and Deep Learning Techniques for (Beyond) 5G Wireless Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2019.
- Invited Talk "Learn to Communicate - Communicate to Learn": Univ. of California Berkeley (Mar. 2019); Stanford Univ. (Mar. 2019); MIT (Mar. 2019); Rutgers Univ. (Mar. 2019); New York University (Mar. 2019); KTH ACCESS Seminar (Jan. 2019); Southampton Univ. (Jan. 2019); Univ. of Padova (Oct. 2018); Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) (Oct. 2018).
- Invited Talk, "Uncoded Wireless Image Transmission," Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) CETO Meeting, Thales Green Park Facilities, UK, Jun. 2018.
- Invited Talk, "Contents on the Move: Content Caching and Delivery at the Wireless Network Edge,": Queen Mary University of London (Apr. 2018); University of Pompeu Fabra (Apr. 2018); KAUST (Nov. 2017); EURECOM (Apr. 2017).
- Invited Talk, "Reinforcement learning for wireless network optimization,": International Telecommunication Union, Workshop on Machine Learning for 5G and Beyond, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 2018.
- Invited talk at CommNet2 Workshop on Communications and Signal Processing for 5G , "Proactive Wireless Content Caching'", Durham University, Jan. 2018.
- Invited talk at the Workshop on Privacy and Cyber-Security of Smart Grid, "Can We Prevent Privacy Leakage from Smart Meters without Compromising Their Functionalities?'' IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Dresden, Germany, Oct. 2017.
- Invited talk at Energy Futures Lab, "Can Smart Meters Be Made Privacy Aware?'', London, UK, May 2017.
- Invited talk at EURECOM, "Contents on the Move: Content Caching and Delivery at the Wireless Network Edge,'' Sophia Antipolis, France, Apr. 2017.
- Invited talk at TechElevator Event, Imperial Enterprise Week, ``Privacy-Aware Energy Management for Smart Meters'', London, UK, Mar. 2017.
- Keynote speech, "Contents on the Move: Wireless Content Delivery in 5G Networks," 3rd AUST Symposium on Innovations in Computer& Communications Engineering (SICCE), Lebanon, Beirut, Dec. 2016.
- Invited talk at the Royal Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering for Development Symposium, "Energy and Information Networks'', Cambridge, UK, Nov. 2016.
- Invited talk at the GdR-ISIS meeting “Recent Advances in Network Information Theory and Coding Theory” in Lyon, France, Nov. 2015.
- Invited lecture at the European School of Antennas “Wireless Networks: From Energy Harvesting to Information Processing” in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2015.
- Invited Full-Day Tutorial, “Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Networks” at the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Brussels, Belgium, Aug. 2015.
- Tutorial on “Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communication Networks” at the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.
- Tutorial on “Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communication Systems” at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, Jun. 2014.
- Invited Talk, “Energy Harvesting: Communication System Design and Smart Meter Privacy”, University of South Wales, Australia, June 2014.
- Invited Talk, “Energy Harvesting: Communication System Design and Smart Meter Privacy”, King’s College, UK, May 2014.
- Invited Talk, “Zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding”, Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory, Tehran, Iran, May 2014.
- Tutorial on “Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communication Systems” at the European Wireless (EW) Conference, Barcelona, Spain, May 2014.
- Invited Talk, “Energy Harvesting: Communication System Design and Smart Meter Privacy”, Toshiba Research Labs, Bristol, UK, Mar. 2014.
- Tutorial on “Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communication Systems” at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Istanbul, Turkey, 2014.
- Invited Talk, "Joint Source-Channel Coding with Fading Channel and Side Information", University of Cambridge, UK, Jan. 2014.
- Invited Talk, "Energy Harvesting Communication System Design", UCL, London, UK, Nov. 2013.
- Invited Talk, "Energy Harvesting Communication System Design", Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2013.
- Invited Talk, "Joint Source-Channel Coding with Fading Channel and Side Information", KTH, Sweden, Oct. 2013.
- Cooperative Relaying, 3rd European School of Antennas on Cooperative Communications and Distributed Arrays, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2013.
- Tutorial on “Energy Harvesting Wireles Communication Networks” at ISWCS, Ilmenau, Germany, Aug. 2013.
- Tutorial on “Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communication Systems, International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 2013.
CONFERENCE CHAIRING AND ORGANISATION
- Co-chair, Communication Theory Symposium, IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications(ICC), Dublin, Ireland, Jun. 2020.
- Co-Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2019-Fall, Green Communications and Networks Track, Honolulu, HI, Sep. 2019.
- Co-Chair, Workshop on Edge Computing for Cyber Physical Systems, IEEE InternationalConference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), Boston, MA, Jun. 2019.
- General Co-Chair, Fifth London Symposium on Information Theory (LSIT), London, UK, May 2019.
- Co-chair, 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning in Wireless Communications, IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 2019.
- Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, andComputing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), Aalborg, Denmark, Oct.-Nov. 2018.
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Technical Program Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Halifax, Canada, Jul. 2018. - General Co-chair, Workshop on Promises and Challenges of Machine Learning in Communication Networks, IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, May 2018.
- General Co-chair, 2nd Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Remotely Powered Communications for Sustainable Future Networks and IoT, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2018.
- Tutorials Co-chair, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2018.
- General Co-chair, 22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, Bochum, Germany, Mar. 2018.
- Co-organizer, Joint iCore & CommNet2 Workshop on Content Caching and Distributed Storage for Future Communication Networks, London, UK, Jun. 2017.
- Co-Chair, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), PHY and Fundamentals Track, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 2017.
- General Co-chair of the 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Cambridge, UK, Sep. 2016.
- General Co- chair of the IEEE WCNC 2016 Workshop on Wireless Powered Communication Networks: From Theory to Industry Challenges, Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2016.
- Co-chair of Network Theory Symposium at the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 2014.
- Tutorials co-chair of IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Washington D.C., Sep. 2014.
- Special session organiser on “Fundamental Limits of Communications with Energy Harvesting'', at the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Hobart, Tasmania, Nov. 2014.
- Special session organiser on “Distributed Caching in Wireless Networks” at the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.
- Special session organiser on "Energy Harvesting Communication Networks: Optimization and Demonstration (E-CROPS Project)" at the 2014 European Wireless (EW) Conference, Barcelona, Spain, May 2014.
- Special session organiser on "Information Theoretic Approaches to Database Management" at the 2014 International Zurich Seminar on Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2014.
- Co-chair of Network Theory Symposium at the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Austin, TX, Dec. 2013.
- Special session organiser on “Multi-way Communication and Cooperation”, IEEE Int’l Symp. on Wireless Comm. Systems (ISWCS) , Paris, France, Aug. 2012.
Guest Lectures
Can smart meters be made privacy aware?, Energy Futures Lab, London, 2017
Keynote Speech at the Third Symposium on Innovations in Computer & Communications Engineering, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Beirut, Lebanon, 2016
Invited Talk at the Frontiers of Engineering for Development Symposium, Royal Academy of Engineering, Cambridge, UK, 2016
Tutorial presentation: Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Networks, The Tenth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2013), Ilmenau, Germany, 2013
Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks, Summer School of Information Engineering, Bressanone, Italy, 2013
Tutorial presentation: Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communication Systems, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, 2013
Design of Energy Harvesting Communication Systems, The University of York, York, UK, 2013
Energy Harvesting Communication Systems: Offline, Online and Learning Theoretic Approaches, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2013
Research Staff
Blasco,P
Estella Aguerri,I
Zhao,J