IEEE VTC WORKSHOP ON: mmWave Massive MIMO Communication for 5G
Shahid Mumtaz is currently working as Senior Research Scientist and Technical Manager at Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal under 4Tell group. Prior to his current position, he worked as Research Intern at Ericsson and Huawei Research Labs in 2005 at Karlskrona, Sweden. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) Karlskrona, Sweden and University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Dr Shahid MSc and PhD were funded by Swedish government and FCT Portugal.
He has been involved in several EC R&D Projects ((5GPP - Speed-5G), CoDIV, FUTON, C2POWER, GREENET, GREEN-T, ORCALE, ROMEO, FP6, and FP7) in the field of green communication and next generation wireless systems. In EC projects, he holds the position of technical manager, where he oversees the project from a scientific and technical side, managing all details of each work packages which gives the maximum impact of the project’s results for further development of commercial solutions. He has been also involved in two Portuguese funded projects (SmartVision & Mobilia) in the area of networking coding and development of system level simulator for 5G wireless system. Dr Shahid has several years of experience in 3GPP radio systems research with experience in HSPA/LTE/LTE-A and strong track-record in relevant technology field, especially physical layer technologies, LTE cell planning and optimization, protocol stack and system architecture. Dr Shahid research interests lie in the field of architectural enhancements to 3GPP networks (i.e., LTE-A user plan & control plan protocol stack, NAS and EPC), 5G related technologies, green communications, cognitive radio, cooperative networking, radio resource management, cross-layer design, Backhaul/fronthaul, heterogeneous networks, M2M and D2D communication, and baseband digital signal processing.
Dr. Shahid has more than 60 publications in international conferences, journal papers and book chapters. He is serving as a Vice-Chair of IEEE 5G Standardization. In 2012, Shahid was awarded an "Alain Bensoussan" fellowship by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) to pursue research in communication networks for one year at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is also editor of two books and served as guest editor for special issue in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and IEEE Communication Magazine. Recently, he is appointed as permanent associate technical editor for IEEE Communication Magazine and Elsevier Journal of Digital Communication and Network. He has been on the technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and VTC, and chaired some of their symposia. He was the workshop chair in many conference and recipient of the 2006 IITA Scholarship, South Korea. Dr. Shahid is a IEEE member.
Prof. Bo Ai received his Master degree and Ph. D. degree from Xidian University in China. He graduated from Tsinghua University with the honor of Excellent Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tsinghua University in 2007. He is now working in State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety at Beijing Jiaotong University as a full professor and Ph. D. candidate advisor. He is the Deputy Director of State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety and the Deputy Director of Modern Telecommunication Institute. He is one of the main responsible people for Beijing “Urban rail operation control system” International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, and the backbone member of the Innovative Engineering Based jointly granted by Chinese Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He was a visiting professor with Prof Andrea Goldsmith at EE Department, Stanford University during March 17th and September 26th, 2015.
He has authored/co-authored 6 books and published over 230 academic research papers in his research area. He has hold 21 invention patents. He has been the research team leader for 21 national projects and has won some important scientific research prizes. He has been notified by Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) that, based on Scopus database, Prof. Bo Ai has been listed as one of the Top 1% authors in his field all over the world. Prof. Bo Ai has also been Feature Interviewed by IET Electronics Letters. His interests include the research and applications of channel measurement and channel modeling, dedicated mobile communications for rail traffic.
Prof. Bo Ai is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET Fellow). He was as a Co-chair or a Session/Track Chair for many international conferences such as the 9th International Heavy Haul Conference (2009); the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation; HSRCom2011; the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics; the 2013 International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia; IEEE Green HetNet 2013; and the IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (2014). He is an Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS and an Editorial Committee Member of the Wireless Personal Communications journal. He has received many awards such as the Qiushi Outstanding Youth Award by HongKong Qiushi Foundation, the New Century Talents by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award by the Chinese Ministry of Railways, and the Science and Technology New Star by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission.
Fabrizio Granelli is IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for 2012-15, and Associate Professor at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento (Italy).
He received the «Laurea» (M.Sc.) degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In August 2004, August 2010 and April 2013, he was visiting professor at the State University of Campinas (Brasil). He is author or co-author of more than 140 papers with topics related to networking, with focus on performance modeling, wireless communications and networks, cognitive radios and networks, green networking and smart grid communications.
Dr. Granelli was guest-editor of ACM Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, and Hindawi Journal of Computer Systems, Networks and Communications. He is Founder and General Vice-Chair of the First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON’05) and General Chair of the 11th, 15thand 18th IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD). He was TPC Co-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM Symposium on “Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling” in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012. He was officer (Secretary 2005-2006, Vice-Chair 2007-2008, Chair 2009- 2010) of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM), and Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2007-2011)..
Jian Luo received the B.A. Sc. degree in communication engineering from South China University of Technology in 2004 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. From 2007 to 2012, he was a researcher in the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin and, since 2010, project technical leader.
Since 2012 October, he joint Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, European Research Center, and work on 5G wireless communication systems. He has been involved/technical lead in a number of national funded and EU funded research projects, incl. SAPHYRE, METIS and mmMAGIC. His main research interests include millimeter wave communication technologies, air-interface design, RF impairment modeling and compensation, and flexible spectrum usage concepts.
Linglong Dai received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2003, the M.S. degree (with the highest honors) from the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree (with the highest honors) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, and then since July 2013, became an Assistant Professor with the same Department. His research interests are in wireless communications with the emphasis on OFDM, MIMO, synchronization, channel estimation, multiple access techniques, and wireless positioning. He has published over 50 journal and conference papers.
Dr. Dai has received IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award in 2015 (IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Best Paper Award), IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2014, URSI Young Scientists Award in 2014, National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award in 2013, IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2013, Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Beijing in 2012, Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Tsinghua University in 2011. He currently serves as a co-chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) “Signal processing techniques in 5G communication systems” of IEEE ComSoc.