Tallinn University of Technology

Prof. Muhammad Mahtab Alam

Muhammad Mahtab Alam received M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2007, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Rennes1 (INRIA Research Center) in 2013, He did his postdoc research in the Qatar Foundation funded project Critical and Rescue Operations using Wearable Wireless Sensor Networks from Qatar Mobility Innovations Center during 2014-2016. In 2016, he has been elected as European Research Area Chair holder in cognitive electronics project and Associate Professor in Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics, Tallinn University of Technology. In 2018, he has obtained tenure professorship to chair Telia Professorship under the cooperation framework between Telia and Tallinn University of Technology. He has authored and co-authored over 55 research publications. His research interests include self-organized and self-adaptive wireless sensor and body area networks specific to energy efficient communication protocols and accurate energy modeling, Internet-of-things, public safety and critical networks, embedded systems, digital signal processing, and software defined radio. He is a principal investigator of NATO-SPS-G5482 grant as well as Estonian Research Council PUT-Team Grant.

Prof. Yannick Le Moullec

Yannick Le Moullec received the MSc (EE) degree from Université de Rennes I (France) in 1999 and the PhD (EE) degree from Université de Bretagne Sud (France) in 2003. From 2003 to 2013 he successively held postdoc, assistant, and associate professor positions at Aalborg University (Denmark). He then joined TalTech, where he first was a senior researcher (2013 to 2016) and is now a professor. He has supervised 9 PhD theses and 50+ MSc theses; he is currently supervising 5 PhD theses and 5 MSc theses. He is Co-PI for the H2020 COEL ERA-Chair project. His research interests span HW/SW co-design, embedded systems, reconfigurable systems, and IoT.

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

Dr. Ahmad Rizwan

Rizwan Ahmad received M.Sc. degree in Communication Engineering and Media Technology from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany in 2004 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Qatar University on a QNRF grant. He is currently working as Assistant Professor at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. He also leads the Communication Systems and Networking (CSN) research group at NUST. His research interests include medium access control protocols, spectrum and energy efficiency, energy harvesting and performance analysis for wireless communication and networks. He has published and served as a reviewer for IEEE journals and conferences. He also serves on the TPC of leading conferences in the communication and networking field, including, e.g. IEEE VTC, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom. He is a member of IEEE. He was the recipient of the prestigious International Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the Australian Government.

Politecnico di Milano

Prof. Maurizio Magarini

Maurizio Magarini (M’04)} received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. In 1994, he was granted the TELECOM Italia scholarship award for his M.Sc. Thesis. He worked as a Research Associate in the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria at the Politecnico di Milano from 1999 to 2001. From 2001 to 2018, he was an Assistant Professor in Politecnico di Milano where, since June 2018, he has been an Associate Professor. From August 2008 to January 2009 he spent a sabbatical leave at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ. His research interests are in the broad area of communication and information theory. Topics include synchronization, channel estimation, equalization and coding applied to wireless and optical communication systems. His most recent research activities have focused on molecular communications, massive MIMO, study of waveforms for 5G cellular systems, wireless sensor networks for mission critical applications, and wireless networks using unmanned aerial vehicles and high-altitude platforms. He has authored and coauthored more than 100 journal and conference papers. He was the co-recipient of two best-paper awards. Since 2017 he has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Access of Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier). In 2017 he also served as Guest Editor for IEEE Access Special Section on “Networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Wireless Communications, Applications, Control and Modelling”. He has been involved in several European and National research projects.

Dr. Luca Reggiani

Luca Reggiani received a honors degree in Electronic Engineering in 1998 and a PhD in Electronics and Communications in 2001 from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He had been a visiting scholar at the CMRR (Center for Magnetic Recording Research) c/o University of California, San Diego in 1999. As a consultant he has collaborated with several industries in the field of wireless communications and magnetic recording. Since 2003, he has been assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano in the telecommunications area. Since 2002 he has been teaching in courses on Signal and Transmission Theory and in courses on Wireless Communication Systems. He has joined to Italian and European research programs, especially in the field of cellular radio broadband systems and personal short range UWB (Ultra Wide Band) systems. In the Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione his research interests are focused mainly in the following topics: information and communication theory (iterative codes, channel estimation, synchronization, multiple access, radio resource allocation), broadband radio systems, short range Ultra Wide Band radio systems, wireless sensor networks. His main publications and patents are in the physical layer of telecommunications and radio transmission.