Workshop Chairs
Waltenegus Dargie
Waltenegus is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He obtained a PhD in Computer Engineering from the same university in 2006. He holds MSc (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) and BSc (Nazareth Technical College) degrees in Electrical Engineering. Waltenegus has been Guest Editor to the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Journal of Computer and System Science (Elsevier), and Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communication Systems. At present, he is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems and Journal of Computer and Network Applications. His research interests include energy-efficient computing, wireless networks, wireless sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing.
Jaafar Elmirghani
Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani is a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Senior Member of IEEE and has research expertise in optical networks, network optimisation and in wireless networks. He has published over 350 technical papers and has provided outstanding leadership in a large number of research projects. He received the IEEE Communications Society 2005 Hal Sobol award for exemplary service to meetings and conferences, the IEEE Communications Society 2005 Chapter Achievement award, and the IEEE Communications Society Signal Processing and Communication Electronics outstanding service award, 2009. He is currently an editor of IET Optoelectronics, editor of Journal of Optical Communications, Co-Chair of the GreenTouch Core Switching and Routing Working Group, an adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, and member of the Royal Society International Joint Projects Panel.
Vincent Lau
Vincent obtained B.Eng (Distinction 1st Hons) from the University of Hong Kong (1989-1992) and Ph.D. from the Cambridge University (1995-1997). He earned his Ph.D. in 2 years and joined the Bell Labs (New Jersey). He joined the Department of ECE, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as Associate Professor in 2003. He is currently a Professor, IEEE Fellow and the Director and Founder of the Huawei-HKUST Joint Innovation lab. Vincent has published more than 200 IEEE journal and conference papers and has contributed to 28 US patents on various wireless systems. In addition, he is also the key contributor of four IEEE standard contributions to IEEE 802.22 (WRAN / Cognitive Radio). His current research focus includes robust cross layer stochastic optimization for delay-aware MIMO/OFDM wireless systems, communication theory with channel feedback as well as interference mitigation techniques for wireless networks. He has obtained three IEEE best paper awards (ICC 2008 and ISC 2007) and is currently an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Guest Editors of IEEE JSAC and EUARSIP Wireless Communications and Networking. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Technical Program Committee
Alexandre Gutton, Blaise Pascal University, France
Alexander Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Stefano Bregni Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Ian White, Cambridge University, UK
Taisir El-Gorashi, University of Leeds, UK
Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mamoun Guenach, Alcatel Lucent, Belgium
Bilal Qazi, University of Leeds, UK
Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University
Dan Kilper, Alcatel Lucent, USA
Athanassios Manikas, Imperial College, London
Samya Bhattacharya, University of Leeds, UK
Y.C Wu, University of Hong Kong
Yan Chen, Huawei Technologies
Wei Chen, Tsinghua University
An LIU, Peking University
Zuleita Ho, Technical University of Dresden
W. K. Ng, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Ying CUI, Northeastern University
Ray Wang, Huawei Technologies
Dave Cavalcanti, Philips Research
Richard Clegg, University College London, UK
Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Zhou Liang, ENSTA-Paris Tech, France
Glenford Mapp, Middlesex University, UK
Eduardo Nakamura, FUCAPI - Research and Technological Innovation Center, Brazil
George Oikonomou, University of Bristol, UK
Jorge Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Binod Vaidya, University of Ottawa, Canada
Qin Xin, Simula School of Research and Innovation AS, Norway
Sherali Zeadally, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
