Workshop Chairs
Dr Adnan Aijaz, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK
Adnan Aijaz received the M.Sc degree in Mobile and Personal Communications and the Ph.D degree in Telecommunications Engineering from King’s College London (KCL), UK, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. After a post-doctoral year at KCL, he moved to Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. where he currently works as a Research Engineer. His primary research focus is on wireless networking, with emphasis on cognitive radio, sensor networks, 802.11, Internet-of-Things, and more recently, the Tactile Internet. His publications in these areas have featured in internationally renowned conferences and journals. Prior to joining KCL, he worked in cellular industry, for nearly 2.5 years, in the areas of network performance management, optimization, and quality assurance. He has served as the symposium co-chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2015. He has been on the TPC of various IEEE conferences.
Dr. Meryem Simsek, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Meryem Simsek received her Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany in 2008, holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation which is granted to the outstanding 0.5% of all students in Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. degree on reinforcement learning based inter-cell interference coordination in heterogeneous networks from the same university in 2013. In 2013, she was a post-doctoral visiting scientist at Florida International University. Since 2014, she is a group leader at the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communication Systems at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. Her main research interests include radio resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks, 5G wireless systems, game theory, reinforcement learning, and the tactile internet. Meryem won the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize 2015. In June 2015, she applied for the IEEE ETC technical sub-committee ‘The Tactile Internet’ which has been accepted and which she is chairing.
Dr Toktam Mahmoodi, King’s College London, UK
Toktam Mahmoodi is Lecturer in Telecommunications in the Department of Informatics of King’s College London. She is a member of the Tactile Internet Lab and principal and co-investigator in 5G mobile research projects. Previously, Toktam was visiting research scientist with F5 Networks, in San Jose, post-doctoral research associate in the INS research group in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, and Mobile VCE researcher. From 2002-6, Toktam worked in the mobile and personal communications industry, and in a Research & Development team, providing mobile broadband to rural and remote regions. Her research focuses on the areas of mobile and cloud networking, and includes ultra-low latency networking, network virtualisation, mobility management, network modelling and optimisation. Toktam also works on applications of mobile communications in the healthcare, smart cities and automotive sector.
Dr Joachim Sachs, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Joachim Sachs received the Diploma degree from Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, and the Doctorate degree from the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Currently, he is a Principal Researcher with Ericsson Research working on future wireless communication systems. In 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Since 1995, he has been active in the IEEE and the German VDE Information Technology Society (ITG), where he currently co-chairs the technical committee on communication networks and systems.
Prof Mischa Dohler, King’s College London, UK
Mischa Dohler is now leading the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King's College London. He is working on mobile 5G, machine-to-machine, wireless sensor, femto, cooperative, cognitive, and docitive networks. He previously led the Intelligent Energy Group at CTTC, Barcelona, Spain, with focus on smart grids and green radios. In the framework of the Mobile VCE, he has pioneered research on distributed cooperative space-time encoded communication systems in 1999. He has published over 200 technical journal and conference papers at a citation h-index of 33, holds 12 patents, authored, co-edited, and contributed to 19 books, has given 25 international short-courses, and participated in various standardisation activities. He is an Editor-in-Chief of ETT and is/has been holding various editorial positions for numerous IEEE and non-IEEE journals. He is an IEEE Fellow, and distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE ComSoc. From June 2005 to February 2008, he has been a Senior Research Expert with the Research and Development Division, France Telecom, France. He received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from King’s College London in 2003, the Diploma in electrical engineering from Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, in 2000, and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from King’s College London in 1999.
Prof Gerhard Fettweis, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Fettweis earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr's supervision from RWTH Aachen in 1990. After one year at IBM Research in San Jose, CA he moved to TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany, with currently 20 companies from Asia/Europe/US sponsoring his research on wireless transmission and chip design. He coordinates 2 DFG centres at TU Dresden, cfAED and HAEC. Gerhard is IEEE Fellow, member of acatech, has an honorary doctorate from TU Tampere, and has received multiple awards. In Dresden he has spun-out ten start-ups, and setup funded projects of more than EUR 1/3 billion volume.