Program

Room: Emerald E 

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Speaker: Nihar Jindal (Google)

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Chair: Angel Lozano (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Speaker 1: Tim O’Shea (Virginia Tech): “Deep Learning at the Physical Layer: Scaling to Exploit Degrees of Freedom”
Speaker 2: Ove Edfors (Lund University): “Intelligent Surfaces – Moving Beyond Massive MIMO”
Speaker 3: Erik Larsson (Linkoping University): “Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Known Results and Open Problems”
Speaker 4: Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland): “Private Information Retrieval: A Communication Theory Perspective”

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Chair: Tara Javidi (University of California at San Diego)

Speaker 1: Fadel Adib (MIT): “Extreme Positioning for Billions of Things”
Speaker 2: Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California): “Matrix Factorization Techniques for Data Clustering and Radio Map Reconstruction” (Slides)
Speaker 3: Walid Saad (Virginia Tech): “Wireless Networking with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and Tradeoffs”
Speaker 4: Tara Javidi (University of California at San Diego): “Target Localization: From mmWave Beam Alignment to Drone Flight Path Optimization”
Speaker 5: Haitham Hassanieh (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign): “Agile and Scalable Millimeter Wave Networks”

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Chair: Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)

Speaker 1: Pieter van Rooyen (Edico Genome)
Speaker 2: Peiying Zhu (Huawei)
Speaker 3: Reinaldo Valenzuela (Nokia Bell Labs)
Speaker 4: Aylin Yener (Penn State)
Speaker 5: Behnaam Aazhang (Rice University)

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Speaker: Riccardo de Gaudenzi (European Space Agency)

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Chair: Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas at Austin)

Speaker 1: Bert Hochwald (Notre Dame): “The Ups and Downs of a Startup – Some Anecdotes”
Speaker 2: Hesham El-Gamal (OSU):
Speaker 3: Clay Shepard (Skylark Wireless): “Commercializing 5G Massive MIMO: From the Lab to the Field”
Speaker 4: Sriram Vishwanath(UT Austin): “Introducing M87: Enabling the Proximate Internet”

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Chair: Jean-Claude Belfiore (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, France Research Center, Huawei Technologies)

Speaker 1: Amitava Gosh (Nokia Bell Labs): “5G New Radio: Physical Layer Overview and Performance” (Slides)
Speaker 2: Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Italy): “The Case for Doubly Massive MIMO Systems at Millimeter Wave”
Speaker 3: Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark): “5G Wireless Network Slicing: A Communication-Theoretic View” (Slides)
Speaker 4: Jean-Claude Belfiore (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, France Research Center, Huawei Technologies): “Polar Codes : What Will Be Next Step?”
Speaker 5:Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic (University of Vigo, Spain): “Going Beyond Beamforming in 5G New Radio”

Room: Coastal Ballroom A

Chair: Bruce Mueller (Motorola Solutions)

Speaker 1: Ben Wojowitz (Google)
Speaker 2: Mary Ann Weitnauer (Georgia Tech)
Speaker 3: Amitava Ghosh (Nokia Network)
Speaker 4: Bruce Mueller (Motorola Solutions)

Room: Sandpiper A,B

Speakers: Erik Stauffer (Google)

Room: Sandpiper A,B

Chair: Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College of London)

Speaker 1: Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers), “Delay and Peak-Age Violation Probability in Short-Packet Transmissions”
Speaker 2: Gianluigi Liva (DLR), “Modern Random Access Protocols: A Survey”
Speaker 3: Ayfer Ozgur (Stanford), “Battery and Crystal Free Radios: A New Frontier for Communication and Information Theory”
Speaker 4: Mohammad Maddah-Ali (Nokia Bell Labs), “Communication and Computing in Untrusted Distributed Environment for Massive Matrix Operations”
Speaker 5: Matthew Nokleby (Wayne State University), “Distributed Machine Learning via the Information Bottleneck”