Open Lecture 10 – Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory

Name: Open Lecture 10 – Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory
Start: 2025-04-30
End: 2025-04-30
Location: Virtual event

Following the success of the previous Open Lectures, the Association is happy to confirm that Open Lecture 10 will take place on April 30, 2025, at 14h00 CEST, covering the subject of Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory (ESIT).

The ITU-R adopted IMT-2030/6G framework and 3GPP’s latest Release 19 indicate the growth of wireless standards tending towards enhanced intelligent and automated approaches, sustainability, hyper-reliability, resilient and secure networking, ubiquitous connectivity, integrated (AI, sensing, communications) solutions and low latency communications. In order to meet the immensely higher data rate, reliability, and traffic demands in the 5G-Advanced/6G era, novel communication frameworks are rapidly emerging to fully utilize the electromagnetic waves, including reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, holographic MIMO, extremely large antenna arrays, metaprism, etc. In this direction, Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory (ESIT) has emerged as an interdisciplinary framework to evaluate the fundamental limits of wireless communications by integrating deterministic electromagnetic wave (EM) theory, signal processing and statistical information theory. The industry and academia researchers have recently shown significant interest in the emerging electromagnetic information theory, i.e., based on electromagnetics principles and information theory concepts, intertwined with signal processing approaches, which is jointly termed as ESIT. This integration will lead to a paradigm shift to the future of how we picture our wireless communications and networking. ESIT is able to build a more physically consistent communication model and establish more fundamental limitations on the communication systems.

The one6G Open Lecture 10 is set up through the collaboration between the one6G Association and the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI) on ESIT.

Join us on April 30, 2025, at 2 p.m. CEST to learn more!

AGENDA

14:00 Welcome & opening

Martin Schubert – Moderator

Huawei Technologies

Martin Schubert is a Principal Researcher at Huawei’s Munich Research Center in Germany. He received his doctoral degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 2003. From 2003 to 2012, he was with the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) where he worked as a senior researcher, lecturer, and team leader. He is a co-author of two books and more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the area of signal processing for communications and networking. In 2007 he was a co-recipient of the VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Award; he also co-authored a 2007 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. From 2009 to 2013 he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing. Martin is currently leading the Work Item "Next Generation MIMO" of the one6G Association.

14:05 Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory: What to Expect?

Prof. Aryan Kaushik

Associate Professor at Manchester Met

Prof. Aryan Kaushik is currently an Associate Professor at Manchester Met, UK, since 2024. Previously he has been with University of Sussex (2021-24), University College London (2020-21), University of Edinburgh (2015-19), HKUST (2014-15), and held visiting appointments at Imperial College London (2019-20), University of Bologna (2024), University of Luxembourg (2018), Athena RC (2020), and Beihang University (2017-19, 2022). He has been External Assessor (Academic Promotion) such as at University of Hertfordshire (2025), and External PhD Examiner internationally such as at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (2023). He has been an Invited Panel Member at the UK EPSRC ICT Prioritisation Panel in 2023, UK EPSRC Proposals Reviewer since 2023, French National Research Agency (ANR) Proposal Reviewer in 2025, Chair of IEEE ComSoc ETI on ESIT, Co-Chair of IEEE SIG on AITNTN, Editor of 5 books by Elsevier and Wiley, and several journals such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE OJCOMS (Best Editor Award 2024 and 2023), IEEE Communications Letters (Exemplary Editor 2024 and 2023), IEEE IoT Magazine, IEEE CTN, and several special issues such as in IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, etc. He has been invited/keynote and tutorial speaker for over 100 academic and industry events, and conferences globally such as at IEEE ICC 2024-25, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023-24, etc., and chairing in Organizing and Technical Program Committees of 14 flagship IEEE conferences such as IEEE ICC 2024-26, etc., and has been General Chair of over 25 workshops such as at IEEE ICC 2024-25, etc. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aryankaushik

14:25 Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: On the convergence of ESIT and AI

Marco Di Renzo

CNRS & CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay University, and King’s College London

Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) at CNRS \& CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France, as well as a Chair Professor in Telecommunications Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications Research -- Department of Engineering, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. He was a France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT at the University of Oulu (Finland), a Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellow in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), a Fulbright Fellow at The City University of New York (USA), a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalto University (Finland), and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast (U.K.). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, EURASIP, and AAIA; an Academician of AIIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea; an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation; and a Highly Cited Researcher. His recent research awards include the Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award, and the IEEE Communications Society Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters from 2019 to 2023. His current main roles within the IEEE Communications Society include serving as a Voting Member of the Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, as the Chair of the Publications Misconduct Ad Hoc Committee, and as the Director of Journals.

14:45 3D Intelligent Metasurfaces and Their Applications

Chau Yuen

Associate Professor, NTU

Chau Yuen received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Murray Hill, in 2005. From 2006 to 2010, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. Since 2023, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Dr. Yuen received IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2024), IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award (2024), IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2023), IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (2021), IEEE APB Outstanding Paper Award (2023), and EURASIP Best Paper Award for JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (2021). He is an IEEE Fellow and also a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science.

15:05 Title TBD

Vincenzo Sciancalepore

Principal Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe

Vincenzo Sciancalepore [SM] is a Principal Researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany. He is currently focusing his activity in the area of network virtualization, network slicing, and edge computing. He is the standard delegate of NEC actively contributing to the standard ETSI MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing) ISG. He is currently a member of the IEEE Emerging Technologies Standing Committee (ETC) leading the initiatives on Software Defined Networking & Network Function Virtualization as well as in the IEEE Mobile Communication Networks Standards Committee (IEEE MobiNet-SC). He currently holds the Italian habilitation as an associate professor in telecommunications issued by MIUR.

15:45 Q&A session and closing remarks

Date

30 Apr 2025

Time

2:00 pm

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Virtual event