Plenary talks

Plenary presentations will be given by

  • Giuseppe Caire, TU Berlin, “Achieving spatial scalability and low subpacketization order in wireless coded caching networks”

Giuseppe Caire  was born in Torino in 1965. He received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering  from Politecnico di Torino in 1990, the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992, and the Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino in 1994. He has been a post-doctoral research fellow with the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands) in 1994-1995,Assistant Professor in Telecommunications at the Politecnico di Torino, Associate Professor at the University of Parma, Italy, Professor with the Department of Mobile Communications at the Eurecom Institute,  Sophia-Antipolis, France,a Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,and he is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at theTechnical University of Berlin, Germany.He received the Jack Neubauer Best System Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2003,  theIEEE Communications Society \& Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2004 and in 2011, the Okawa Research Award in 2006,the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2014, the Vodafone Innovation Prize in 2015, and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018.Giuseppe Caire is a Fellow of IEEE since 2005.  He has served in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2004 to 2007,and as officer from 2008 to 2013. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2011. His main research interests are in the field of communications theory, information theory, channel and source codingwith particular focus on wireless communications.

  • Geert Leus, TU Delft, “Graph Signal Processing: Distributed Graph Filters”

Geert Leus received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in June 1996 and May 2000, respectively. Geert Leus is now an “Antoni van Leeuwenhoek” Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests are in the broad area of signal processing, with a specific focus on wireless communications, array processing, sensor networks, and graph signal processing. Geert Leus received a 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award and a 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of EURASIP. Geert Leus was a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee, a Member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee, and the Editor in Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He was also on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. Currently, he is the Chair of the EURASIP Special Area Team on Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems, a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee, a Member of the IEEE Big Data Special Interest Group, an Associate Editor of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, and the Editor in Chief of EURASIP Signal Processing.

  • Marco Lops, Napoli, ” Radar and Communication Systems in Spectral Overlap”

Marco Lops is Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Naples “Federico II”, his alma mater. In the course of his career, he held permanent positions as Assistant and aAssociate Professor at Federico II, and full Professor with University of Cassino and Southern Latium and with the École Nationale Supérieure d’électrotechnique, d’électronique, d’informatique, d’hydraulique et des télécommunications (ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, France). He also held visiting positions with University of Connecticut, Rice University, Princeton University, University of Minnesota, Columbia University. He was associate editor for Journal of Communications and Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and is currently serving as Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. His main research interests are in detection and estimation theory, with emphasis on Radar and Communications.

  • Preben Mogensen, Nokia Bell Labs, Aalborg: “Experimental research towards 5G industrial use-cases”

Preben Mogensen is Principal Scientist in the Standardization Research Lab of Nokia  Bell Labs. He is also Professor and head of the Wireless Communication Networks (WCN) section at Aalborg University. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Aalborg University in 1988 and 1996, respectively. He is currently engaged with Industrial IoT and long term evolution of 5G and beyond. He has published more than 400 papers in the field of wireless communication and his Google Scholar h-index is 58.

  • Janne Peisa, Ericsson. “5G evolution and beyond”

Janne Peisa is responsible for coordinating Ericsson’s research on 5G Evolution and Beyond 5G activities. He has been working at Ericsson in the research and development of 3G, 4G and 5G systems since 1998. Previously, he has coordinated Ericsson’s radio-access network standardization activities in 3GPP, and lead the Ericsson Research 5G program. In 2001, he received the Ericsson Inventor of the Year award. He has authored several publications and patents and holds both an M.SC. and a Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki, Finland.