Events

5g hub seminar: milenko tosic (vizlore)

Date: Thursday, 02nd March 2023
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Milenko Tosic
Director for Innovation and Research Projects
VizLore Foundation
https://vizlore.com/

Title: Uspon i pad novosadskog tech startup-a (The rise and the fall of Novi Sad’s tech startup )

Abstract: Milenko ce prezentovati na temu tehnologija i spin-offova koje su razvijali u okvizu VizLore grupe, o mom startup-u i o jednom startupu koji je “izgoreo” u svom zaletu.

Biography: Milenko Tošić je direktor za inovacije i istraživačke projekte u fondaciji VizLore Labs kao i osnivač više tech startup-a. Bavi se istraživanjen i razvojem u domenu primene veštačke inteligencije, Interneta stvari i blokčejn tehnologija u raznim sektorima privrede. Milenko je doktorand na Departmanu za energetiku, elektroniku i telekomunikacije.

5G IT HUB SEMINAR: Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA Lyon)

Date: Thursday, 17th November 2022
Time: 14:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Jean-Marie Gorce
Professor, INSA, Université de Lyon,
the Head for Science with INRIA Lyon,
Scientific coordinator for the Experimental Facility FIT-CorteXlab
https://team.inria.fr/maracas/team-members/jean-marie-gorce/

Title: Known limits, achievability and trends for M2M:
Towards massive, reliable and real-time communications

Abstract: In the ‘beyond 5G’ roadmap, the place taken by machine type communications (M2M) is constantly increasing, strengthening the mutation of the wireless access paradigm. Indeed critical KPIs for M2M communications are focused on reliability, latency (URLLC) and massive access. The latter is required to absorb the exponential increase of connected things, with in some cases strong reliability-latency requirements. From a general perspective, and under fixed resources and massive access, the reliability-latency duality is becoming more and more central. In this talk we review the key questions and we describe few of our recent contributions, allowing to determine fundamental limits with respect to these 3 KPIs. Our approaches exploit information theory, recent coding, decoding and decision strategies. The presentation will span recent results of the Maracas (Inria-Insa) research group,  from theoretical, algorithmic and experimental complementary perspectives.

Biography: Jean-Marie Gorce (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Lyon, France, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He was a Co-Founder of the Centre for Innovation, Telecommunications and Integration of Services (CITI Lab), in 2001. He was a Visiting Scholar with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, from 2013 to 2014. He has been the Principal Investigator of several French and European sponsored projects related to wireless networks. He is currently the Scientific Coordinator for the Experimental Facility FIT-CorteXlab. He is also a Professor with INSA, Université de Lyon and the Head for Science with INRIA Lyon. He has co-published more than 150 conference and journal articles. His research interests include wireless networking and communication theory, focusing on realistic modeling, wireless system optimization, and performance assessment considering both infrastructure-based and ad-hoc networks.

5g IT HUB seminar: sandra lagen and Biljana Bojovic (CTTC)

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, 08th and 09th November 2022
Time: 09:30h – 12:30h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Sandra Lagen and Biljana Bojovic
Senior Researcher (Head of Unit) and Researcher,
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
https://www.cttc.cat/

Title: 5G LENA System Level Simulator and Extensions for 5G NR V2X

Sandra Lagen

Sandra Lagén is currently a Senior Researcher and Head of the Open Simulations (OpenSim) research unit at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain. She holds a Telecommunications Engineering degree (2011), Master’s degree (2013), and the Ph.D. degree (2016) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. During her PhD, she contributed to 3GPP standardization; being UPC the first university world-wide contributing to 3GPP LTE-A. In CTTC, she has participated in outstanding collaborations with the industry, including InterDigital, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Huawei-Sweden, and Meta-Facebook. Also, she has defined the OpenSim research unit strategy and research lines, contributing to the definition of CTTC’s strategic plan, contributed as an expert to the definition of the “Pla d’Impuls 6G” from la Generalitat de Catalunya which determines the guidelines and activities for the development of 6G, participated in various European/national research projects, and supervised MS/PhD students and Google summer of code projects. The major singularity of the OpenSim research unit that she leads is the involvement with ns-3, an open-source end-to-end network simulator, and particularly the design, development, and maintenance of the 5G-LENA module, for simulation of 5G NR networks. Since 2021, she represents CTTC in the executive board/consortium of ns-3. Her PhD thesis has received recognition awards by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (COIT) (2017) and the UPC (2019). Also, she is co-author of two best paper awards, by IEEE WCNC (2018) and WNS3 (2020), and she is co-inventor in two non-provisional patent applications granted and three provisional applications.

Biljana Bojovic

Biljana Bojović received her MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia in 2008, and her PhD degree in Networking Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain in 2022. She is the developer and maintainer of the LTE, NR, and NR-U modules of the ns-3 network simulator, and the principal author of LAA and LTE-U modules. She held LTE and NR module tutorials at the ns-3 workshops in 2016 and 2022, and at CONFTELE in 2021. She was a mentor of ns-3 GSoC on several occasions. In 2020 she received ACM SIGCOMM Networking System Award. She worked on many research projects for industrial clients, such as Wi-Fi Alliance, SpiderCloud, Interdigital, the US Department of Defense, NIST, Meta, etc. She is a co-author of one patent application (US20200314906A1). Her current research interests include XR traffic enhancements for 5G-Advanced, MIMO simulation models for ns-3, and unlicensed/shared spectrum.

5G IT Hub SEMINAR: Nino Adzibaba and Milan Erdelj (Easy Aerial)

Date: Tuesday, 06th June 2022
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Ninoslav Adzibaba and Milan Erdelj
Chief Software Architect and Director of Communication Technologies,
Easy Aerial, Belgrade
https://www.easyaerial.com/

Title: Easy Aerial – Experiences from a drone startup

Ninoslav Adzibaba

Chief Software Architect and Regional Manager @ Easy Aerial Inc

Passionate about immersive technologies, virtual and augmented reality, Nino inspires and leads Easy Aerial, pushing the limits of what is considered to be possible. His previous success stories include the co-founding of VR Habitat and closely working and learning from clients such as US DoD, IBM, NCR, Boeing Business Jets, Ralph Lauren Home, Mercedes F1, BBC.

Milan Erdelj, PhD

Director of Communication Technologies @ Easy Aerial Inc

By merging together extensive academic and industrial experiences from INRIA, UTC Sorbonne Universités, Scalian and Docotel, Milan and his team integrate the state of the art data transmission and analytics technologies onto the Easy Aerial autonomous UAV systems, making the EA systems go above and beyond the competition.

5G IT Hub Seminar: Branko Ristic (RMIT)

Date: Tuesday, 31st May 2022
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Branko Ristić
Principal Research Fellow, School of Engineering,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/r/ristic-dr-branko

Title: Recent research activities in target tracking and machine reasoning by Branko Ristic and his group at RMIT University

Abstract: The talk will briefly review four research activities: (1) Detection and tracking of small objects on the sea surface using an airborne scanning radar; (2) Development of target tracking algorithms using possibility theory (instead of probability theory); (3) The search for intelligent reactive underwater targets using the game theory; (4) Development of a valuation network for reasoning under uncertainty in the framework of imprecise probability theory.

Branko Ristic was educated in Serbia (FTN, Novi Sad and ETF, Belgrade University) and Australia (PhD, 1995). Since 2015 he is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Engineering of RMIT University.
Before that he spent almost 20 years in Defence Science and Technology (Australia). He published over 100 journal articles and two books. His research interests include statistical signal processing and artificial
intelligence.

5G IT HUB Seminar: Nenad Siroki & Aleksandar Pantovic (PANOS)

Date: Tuesday, 12th April 2022
Time: 14:30h CET
Location: NTP-001 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Full video lecture will be available soon!

Nenad Široki
CTO, PANOS

Aleksandar Pantović
Director of Software Development, PANOS

Implementation of In-building Cellular Systems and
Everyday Challenges of Telecommunication Engineers

Abstract:

This talk will give an overview of how industry of wireless telecommunications has developed in past 30 years and how work description of telecommunications engineer needed to adopt to follow latest trends in the industry. Furthermore, talk will address current trends in the industry of wireless telecommunications and will focus on in-building cellular systems. It will be explained what are active DAS systems and what are the biggest challenges for telecommunications engineers that work on design and implementation of those systems.

5G IT Hub Seminar: Charalambos Konstantinou (KAUST)

Date: Friday, 25th March 2022
Time: 10:00h CET
Location: NTP-001 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Full video lecture will be available soon!

Charalambos Konstantinou
Assistant Professor, KAUST
https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/charalambos-konstantinou

Resilience as the Master Key for Secure Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

Abstract:

This talk will give an overview of the research of the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) lab (sentry.kaust.edu.sa) at KAUST. The transformation of critical grid infrastructures into cyber-physical energy systems contributes towards modernization allowing for better planning, more flexible control, system-wide optimization, etc. However, the cyber-threat landscape on these infrastructures seems to widen with increasing sophistication associated with the use of internet-of-things (IoT) and cloud-based services despite significant benefits in terms of reliability and efficiency. The talk will present different cases of attack strategies simulated under various operating conditions to uncover their system-wide impacts in power systems, as well as illustrate the impact of such attacks and the feasibility of detection methods in simulation models in order to enhance system resilience.

Biography:
Charalambos Konstantinou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (CS) and Affiliate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division (CEMSE) of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is the Principal Investigator of the SENTRY Lab (Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems – sentry.kaust.edu.sa) and a member of the Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center (RC3) at KAUST. Before joining KAUST, he was an Assistant Professor with the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) at Florida State University (FSU). His research interests are in secure, trustworthy, and resilient cyber-physical and embedded IoT systems. He is also interested in critical infrastructures security and resilience with special focus on smart grid technologies, renewable energy integration, and real-time simulation. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New York University (NYU), NY, in 2018, and a M.Eng. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2012.

5G IT Hub Seminar: Nenad Bozic (SmartCat)

Date: Monday, 21st June 2021
Time: 15:00h CET
Webex Meeting Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/onstage/g.php?MTID=ede5aeca9a122617a03653e9fe7d1ee0c
Password: vWC8siYfp63

Full video lecture available at: https://5ghub.ftn.uns.ac.rs/events/startup-success-stories-seminar-nenad-bozic-smartcat/

Nenad Bozic
SmartCat
https://www.smartcat.io/

Building Production Ready AI Solutions in SmartCat

Biography:
Nenad Bozic is data enthusiast and entrepreneur, cofounder of SmartCat company delivering production ready AI solutions.

5G IT Hub Seminar: Filip Bankovic (Roaming Networks)

Date: Wednesday, 02nd June 2021
Time: 10:00h CET
This is a physical event!
Location: Amfiteatar 1, FTN, Novi Sad
Webex Event Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/onstage/g.php?MTID=e6cf2ea5ae05ceb5379f70668364d232b

Filip Bankovic
Roaming Networks, CTO and Executive Director for International Markets Development
https://www.roamingnetworks.com/

Wherever We May Roam

Biography:
Filip Bankovic is CTO at Roaming Networks with 20 years of international experience delivering state-of-the-art services in mobile, internet, video and fixed, communicating global and local flavours in telco and ICT, bringing value to markets and businesses.

5G IT Hub Seminar: Milan Jevtic (SAGA)

Date: Thursday, 15th April 2021
Time: 14:00h CET
Webex Meeting Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/j.php?MTID=m9828afced0ab3a9b2bfaa6fd7addb3c6
Password: 5Ghub

Full video available at: https://5ghub.ftn.uns.ac.rs/events/meet-the-ict-industry-seminar-milan-jevtic-saga/

Milan Jevtic
Executive Director, Software Solutions, SAGA
https://saga.rs

IoT Projects in Regional Envinroment: Organizational Bottlenecks

Biography:
Milan is leading software development teams for more than 20 years, participating in more than 80 cross-industry software projects in various senior and executive roles. Key expertise includes enterprise solutions in governmental organizations, healthcare and financial organizations by using of various technologies and solution, that include transactional software systems, standard technological solutions, business intelligence etc.

5G IT Hub Seminar: Veselin Pizurica (Waylay)

Date: Tuesday, 30th March 2021
Time: 14:00h CET
Webex Meeting Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/onstage/g.php?MTID=e68be088d5b9218c3515b77efdecd5e97
Password: 5ghub

Full video lecture available at: https://5ghub.ftn.uns.ac.rs/events/startup-success-stories-seminar-veselin-pizurica-waylay/

Veselin Pizurica
Waylay
https://www.waylay.io/

Waylay: Building a Startup in Industrial IoT Automation

Biography:
Veselin Pizurica is CTO and founder of Waylay. Throughout his career, he worked in the fields of Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence, Signal and Image Processing, Spherical Lattice coding, Pattern Recognition, Home Networking, MPLS routing, xDSL troubleshooting and optical networks. Veselin holds 12 patents in the domain of Artificial Intelligence, xDSL, home networks and cloud computing. He has been the driving force behind the creation and finetuning of the Digital Twin concept in the IoT developer community.

Meet the ICT Industry Seminar: Djordje Vulovic (Cisco Serbia)

Date: Monday, 21st December 2020
Time: 14:00h CET
Webex Meeting Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/j.php?MTID=m11e9df172816c76444d675fb920a42ec

Djordje Vulovic
Cisco Systems Inc.
Belgrade, Serbia

5G Cloud Native Packet Core and Network Slicing Automation

Biography:
Being part of telco industry for 20+ years and Cisco since 2007, Djordje is helping Telecom providers in Eastern Europe to find their way through constant technology transitions. Blending technical excellence with business acumen, he is on the mission to support customers adopt technologies such as 5G, NFV, MANO, SDN etc. on journeys from marketing buzzwords all the way to real-life technical solutions and accompanying business benefits.

5G and B5G Seminar Series: Ivan Seskar (Rutgers)

Date: Monday, 14th December 2020
Time: 14:00h CET
Webex Event Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/onstage/g.php?MTID=e05ac86f120588038dffdde39e16326bb
Webex Event Password: 5ghub

Ivan Seskar
Chief Technologist and Director
WINLAB, Rutgers University,
New Jersey, USA

Programmable Testbeds for Experimentation with Advanced Wireless and Edge-computing Concepts

Abstract:
Softwarization and virtualization are two disruptive paradigms that are becoming the basis of the design process of modern wireless networks. These new approaches to building end-to-end systems are often based on open interfaces that allow for vendor diversity and support greater innovation but introduce complexities that are quite difficult to analyze using traditional (theoretical and/or simulation based) approaches. These shortcomings are quite often addressed by the introduction of testbeds as platforms for both development and performance evaluation. This talk will briefly introduce innovative and leading-edge, academic and industry wireless testbeds in US and Europe and go into some details on urban wireless testbed being developed jointly by Rutgers, Columbia, and NYU. The COSMOS testbed is currently being deployed in West Harlem (New York City) as part of the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program. Key testbed technologies including SDR base stations, mmWave radio, optical wavelength division switching, next-generation mobile core network and distributed edge cloud will be introduced. The talk will conclude with several suggestions for further research related to the next generation of the wireless system and testbeds.

Biography:
Ivan Seskar is the Chief Technologist and Director at WINLAB, Rutgers University responsible for experimental systems and prototyping projects. He is currently the program director for the COSMOS project responsible for the New York City NSF PAWR deployment, the PI for the NSF GENI Wireless project, which resulted in campus deployments of LTE/WiMAX base stations at several US universities, and the PI for the NSF CloudLab deployment at Rutgers. He has also been the co-PI and project manager for all three phases of the NSF-supported ORBIT mid-scale testbed project at WINLAB, successfully leading technology development and operations since the testbed was released as a community resource in 2005 and for which the team received the 2008 NSF Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation. Ivan is a co-chair of the IEEE Future Networks Testbed Working Group, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of ACM and the co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.

Meet the ICT Industry Seminar: Dragan Novakovic (Cisco Serbia)

Date: Monday, 07th December 2020
Time: 14:00h CET
Webex Meeting Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/j.php?MTID=m4a338797ddd7ff340179818524194c8a

Dragan Novakovic
Cisco Systems Inc.
Belgrade, Serbia

Cisco Industrial IoT Security

Biography:
Dragan Novakovic is more than 20 years in IT industry. Prior to joining Cisco, he worked for 10 years in Academic Network of Serbia as the network administrator. Started with Cisco in 2007. as a Systems Engineer for Networking and Security. Since 2014. at a position as Systems Engineer for Security in South East Europe. Holds an M.Sc.E.E. Faculty of Electrical Engineering (University of Belgrade), CISSP, Cisco CCDE and CCIE Security certifications.

5G and B5G Seminar Series: Dr Stefano Cioni (ESA)

Date: Thursday, 03rd December 2020
Time: 14:00h CET
Webex Event Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec17417f2f6308fd8352d4b91b1c9375e
Webex Event Password: 5ghub

Stefano Cioni, Ph.D
ESA – European Space Agency
TEC-ESC Section
RF Systems Division

A Tutorial on 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks

Abstract:
The Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) work item has been formally approved in December 2019, and therefore 5G Release 17 will be the first time ever standard including the satellite component. This speech will go over again in the main achievements during the past two years of NTN activities in the 3GPP working groups (i.e., Release 16). The presentation will cover also the key elements and features that are under investigation and need for some adaptations to cope with the specificity of satellite communication links.

Biography:
Stefano Cioni received his Dr.-Ing. degree in telecommunication engineering and Ph.D.from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been a senior researcher at the Advanced Research Center for Electronic Systems (ARCES) of the University of Bologna. In 2010, he joined the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where he is currently a telecommunication systems engineer within the Radio Frequency Systems, Payload and Technology Division. His research activities are mainly focused on the next generation broadcast/broadband satellite systems for fixed and mobile satellite services. In particular, his interests include efficient digital coding and modulation techniques, adaptive interference mitigation algorithms in multiple access systems, synchronization techniques,MIMO and OFDM systems, and iterative decoding techniques joint to channel parameter estimation. Since September2016, he has been attending the 3GPP RAN plenary and RAN-WG1 meetings, with the specific interest to support non-terrestrial network (NTN) aspects and to facilitate the 5G terrestrial/satellite networks integration. He has co-authoredmore than 80 papers and scientific conference contributions, and he isa co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICT 2001 and at IEEE ASMS/SPSC2012. Dr. Cioni has been elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE Society in August 2017. Dr. Cioni has selected as recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Satellite and SpaceCommunications Technical Recognition Award 2020.

5G and B5G Seminar Series: Prof. Ian Akyildiz (GEORGIA TECH)

Date: 05th October 2020
Time: 14:00h CEST
Webex Event Link: https://ppma.webex.com/ppma/onstage/g.php?MTID=e9efc990232ed88a3e1c3267aa3d1ab94
Webex Event Password: 5ghub-lec1

Ian F. Akyildiz
Russian Academy of Sciences
Wireless Networks Lab, Moscow, Russia

6G and Beyond: The Future of Wireless Communications Systems

Abstract:
6G and beyond will fulfill the requirements of a fully connected world and provide ubiquitous wireless connectivity for all. Transformative solutions are expected to drive the surge for accommodating a rapidly growing number of intelligent devices and services. Major technological breakthroughs to achieve connectivity goals within 6G include: (i) a network operating at the THz band with much wider spectrum resources, (ii) intelligent communication environments that enable a wireless propagation environment with active signal transmission and reception, (iii) pervasive artificial intelligence, (iv) large-scale network automation, (v) an all-spectrum reconfigurable front-end for dynamic spectrum access, (vi) ambient backscatter communications for energy savings, (vii) the Internet of Space Things enabled by CubeSats and UAVs, and (viii) cell-free massive MIMO communication networks. In this talk, use cases for these enabling techniques as well as recent advancements on related topics are highlighted, and open problems with possible solutions are discussed, followed by a development timeline outlining the worldwide efforts in the realization of 6G. Going beyond 6G, promising early-stage technologies such as the Internet of NanoThings, the Internet of BioNanoThings, and quantum communications, which are expected to have a far-reaching impact on wireless communications, have also been discussed at length in this talk.

Biography:
Ian F. Akyildiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the Megagrant Leader with the Institute for Information Transmission Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, Russia, since May 2018. He serves on the Advisory Board for the newly established research center called Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since June 1, 2020. He is the President of the Truva Inc. since March 1989 and CTO for the newly established company Airanaculus since April 2020. He is a Visiting Distinguished Professor with the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai, India since October 2019. Prof. Akyildiz is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iceland since September 1, 2020. He is the Ken Byers Chair Professor Emeritus in Telecommunications at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Past Chair of the Telecom Group from 1985-2020. He was also Finnish Distinguished Professor with the University of Tampere, Finland, supported by the Finnish Academy of Sciences from 20120-2016. He was the founder of NanoNetworking Center and Honorary Professor at the University of Politecnica de Cataluna in Barcelona from 2008-2017. Dr. Akyildiz was a Distinguished Professor and Founder of the Advanced Wireless Networks Lab with the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 2011-2018. He was also the Founder of the Advanced Wireless Sensor Networks lab and ExtraOrdinary Professor with the University of Pretoria, Pretoria South Africa from 2007-2012.

He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the newly established ITU J-FET (International Telecommunication Union Journal for Future and Evolving Technologies since July 2020. Dr. Akyildiz is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier) (1999-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) (2003-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) (2008-2017), and the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Nano Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal (Elsevier) (2010-2017). Dr. Akyildiz launched many IEEE and ACM conferences. He is an IEEE Fellow (1995) and ACM Fellow (1996) and received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM and other professional organizations. His current research interests are in 6G Wireless Systems, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Terahertz Communications, Nanonetworks, Internet of NanoThings, Internet of BioNanothings, Internet of xThings (x=Underwater, Underground, Space/CubeSats). According to Google Scholar as of July 2020, his H-index is 125 and the total number of citations to his papers is 119+K. His rank in terms of h-index in the world is 46 and in the USA 32.

H2020 INCOMING Kick-Off Meeting

Date: 20-24. January 2020.

Kick-off meeting of INCOMING project took place on 20/01/2020 at the Central University Building in the campus of University of Novi Sad. The project advisory board member, Prof. Branka Vucetic (The University of Sydney) presented a keynote lecture on 5G IoT communications on 21/01/2020. As part of H2020 INCOMING project, 5G IT Hub will be established as part of the ICONIC centre, bringing large number of world-reknown speakers to present current state and future evolution of 5G and related ICT technologies.