Wednesday, November 30
| Time | Title | Who/What |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15 AM | Check-in | Light Breakfast/Lobby Atkinson Hall |
| 9:00 - 9:15 AM | Welcome | Sujit Dey, Director, CWC, UC San Diego Bill Lin, Professor, Chair ECE Department, UC San Diego |
| 9:15 - 9:45 AM | Keynote: Leading 5G Advanced innovations towards 6G | John Smee, Senior VP of Engineering and Head of Wireless Research, Qualcomm |
| 9:45 - 10:15 AM | Keynote: Now Is A Perfect Time To Talk 6G! | Mischa Dohler, Chief Architect, Ericsson Inc. |
| 10:15 - 10:30 AM | Break | Restroom/Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 10:45 AM | Welcome | Al Pisano, Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego |
| 10:45 - 12:10 PM | Role of Data and AI in Future Wireless | Moderator, Ramesh Rao, Director, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego |
| Evolution of Data Fusion and Use Cases Enabled by Wireless Technology | Artur Borycki, Senior Director Innovation and Advance Development, Teradata | |
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Towards AI-centric Future Wireless: Integrated Data and Model Reduction for Wireless Data Fusion |
Sujit Dey, Director, CWC, UC San Diego | |
| Neural Detectors for MIMO Systems | Bhaskar Rao, Professor, UC San Diego | |
| Deploying AI in RAN's with RT-EdgeRIC, Digital Twins, and cross-country xG Interoperability testbed | Dinesh Bharadia, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego | |
| 12:10 - 1:10 PM | Lunch | Courtyard |
| 1:10 - 2:40 PM | Energy Efficiency in Future Wireless Networks | |
| Energy Efficiency in Wireless | Mark Pierpoint, Senior Vice President and President, Ixia Solutions Group, Keysight Technologies, Inc. | |
| “Industry Green-Point-0”— The Role 6G Can Play in the Sustainable Industrial Revolution | Colleen Josephson, Senior Research Scientist, VMWare, Distributed Edge, OCTO | |
| Understanding and Applying the “Universal Currency” of Energy in Wireless Communication Networks | Brian Zahnstecher, IEEE Senior Member, PowerRox, LLC | |
| Research in Energy Efficient and Sustainable Wireless Communications | Sujit Dey, Director, CWC, UC San Diego | |
| 2:40 - 2:55 PM | Break | Restroom Break |
| 2:55 - 3:20 PM | Energy Efficiency in Wireless: Panel Discussion | Sujit Dey, Colleen Josephson, Francesco Carobolante |
| 3:20 - 3:45 PM | 5G NR mmWave: Global Deployment & Ecosystem Evolution |
Introduction, Kamal Sahota, Senior VP, Engineering, RF Integrated Circuit Design Team, Qualcomm Speaker, Kausik Ray Chaudhuri, Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Open House and Poster Session at Franklin Antonio Hall | 2nd Floor of Franklin Antonio Hall for an Open House for the Center for Wireless Communications |
| 6:00 PM | CWC Board Members: Dinner offsite |
Thursday, December 1
| Time | Title | Who/What |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15 AM | Check-in | Light Breakfast/Lobby Atkinson Hall |
| 9:00 - 9:25 AM | Keynote: Radio Technology Evolution Toward 6G | Charlie Zhang, Senior Vice President and Head of Standards and Mobility Innovation Team, Samsung |
| 9:25 - 9:50 AM | Featured Talk: Beyond 5G/6G R&D activities of Mitsubishi Electric and Japan | Shintaro Shinjo, Senior Manager of Amplifier Group, Microwave Electronics department, Information Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation |
| 9:50 - 10:15 AM | Featured Talk: Vehicular Communication Evolution: Active Safety to Harmonious Driving | Ehsan Moradi Pari, Lead/Principal Scientist, Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. |
| 10:15 - 10:30 AM | Break | Restroom/Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 PM | 5G/6G Circuits | Moderator, Patrick Mercier |
| Power Amplifiers: Moving Towards 6G | Peter Asbeck, Professor, UC San Diego | |
| Efficient Integrated Power and Envelope Modulator for 5G and 6G Transmitters Applications | Hanh-Phuc Le, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego | |
| Towards Low-Power and Private Wireless Communications | Patrick Mercier, Associate Professor, UC San Diego | |
| D-band Phased-Arrays and Reflect Arrays (RIS) for 6G Communications | Gabriel Rebeiz, Professor, UC San Diego | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch | Courtyard |
| 1:00 - 1:25 PM | Keynote: Project Kuiper Technology | Nima Mahanfar, Head of Kuiper Antenna Development, Amazon |
| 1:25- 1:50 PM | Featured Talk: Understanding the Role of Geometry in Modern Sensing Tasks, with Applications in Millimeter-Wave Communication and Autonomous Systems | Piya Pal, Associate Professor, UC San Diego |
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM | Intelligent Reflective Surfaces | Moderator, Andrey Kobyakov, Corning |
| Passive Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Millimeter-Wave Coverage Expansion | Xinyu Zhang, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego | |
| Passive MIMO for Sustainable 6G Networks | Kiran Mukkavilli, Sr. Director of Engineering, Qualcomm Wireless Research | |
| Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: opportunity or trap? | Saeed Khosravira, Senior research scientist, Nokia Bell Labs | |
| 3:15 - 4:30 PM | CWC Board of Directors Meeting | Franklin Antonio Hall Room #4202 |