Workshop Chairs     :

Huseyin Arslan: Dr. Huseyin Arslan has received his PhD. degree in 1998 from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX. From January 1998 to August 2002, he was with the research group of Ericsson Inc., NC, USA, where he was involved with several project related to 2G and 3G wireless cellular communication systems. Since August 2002, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Dept. of University of South Florida. In addition, he has worked as part time consultant for various companies and institutions including Anritsu, Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Lecroy, and XG technologies. Dr. Arslan’s research interests are related to advanced signal processing techniques at the physical and medium access layers, with cross-layer design for networking adaptivity and Quality of Service (QoS) control. The current research interests are on cognitive radio, femtocells, powerline communications, smart Grid, UWB, OFDM(A) based wireless technologies with emphasis on WIMAX and IMT-Advanced, TV-White space radio, co-existence issues on heterogeneous networks with emphasis on unlicensed bands, aeronautical (High Altitude Platform) communications, and underwater acoustic communications. He is a member of the editorial board for IEEE Transactions on Communications, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Journal, and Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. Dr. Arslan is a senior member of IEEE.

Wei Yu [S’97, M’02, SM’08]: Wei Yu received the B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1997 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he is now Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. His main research interests include network information theory, optimization, wireless communications, and broadband access networks. Prof. Wei Yu currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (2009-2011), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2004-2007), and a Guest Editor for several special issues for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He is a member of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2008.

Technical Program Chairs     :

Charlie Jianzhong Zhang [S’96, M’02, SM’09]: Charlie Jianzhong Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is currently a senior director and head of Wireless Communications Lab with Samsung R&D America at Dallas (SRA-Dallas), where he leads Beyond 4G/5G technology development, prototyping and standardization. From Aug 2009 to Aug 2013, he is the Vice Chairman of 3GPP RAN1 physical layer working group, which is a key group responsible for the development of essential technologies for the LTE- and LTE-advanced standards, including advanced MIMO, COMP, Hetnet, Carrier Aggregation, etc. Before joining Samsung, he was with Motorola from 2006 to 2007 where he worked on the 3GPP HSPA standardization; and he was with Nokia Research Center from 2001 to 2006 where he worked on IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX) standard and EDGE/CDMA/HSPA receiver algorithms. In addition to his work in the wireless communications area, in the last few years he has also led SRA-Dallas’s R&D activities on bio-medical devices and applications.

Halim Yanikomeroglu: Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s research interests cover many aspects of the physical, medium access, and networking layers of wireless communications with a special emphasis on cellular networks. In recent years, Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s research has been funded by Huawei (Canada and China), Research In Motion (Canada), Samsung (Korea), Communications Research Centre of Canada, Nortel, and NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada).
Dr. Yanikomeroglu has been involved in the organization of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) conference over the years, including serving as the Steering Committee Member and Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair of WCNC 2004, 2008, and 2014.
Dr. Yanikomeroglu was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall 2010 held in Ottawa (VTC2010-Fall). Dr. Yanikomeroglu has served in the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He is a former chair of IEEE's Technical Committee on Personal Communications (now called Wireless Communications Technical Committee).

Lingjia Liu [S’03, M’08]: Dr. Liu received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 2003 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, in 2008. Currently, He is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Kansas (KU). Prior to joining the EECS at KU, he spent more than three years in the Dallas Technology Laboratory of Samsung Electronics where he received the Global Samsung Best Paper Award twice (in 2008 and 2010 respectively). He was leading Samsung’s efforts on multiuser MIMO, coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission, and heterogeneous networks in LTE/LTE-Advanced standards. His general research interests lie in the areas of wireless communication systems, statistical signal processing, queueing theory, and information theory, with emphasis on delay-sensitive and energy-efficient communication over wireless systems and networks. Lingjia Liu is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking as well as Wiley's International Journal on Communication Systems. He is co-editor of special issues of several journals. He has been selected by the National Engineers Week Foundation Diversity Council as “New Faces of Engineering 2011”.

Tommy Svensson [S’98, M’03, SM’10]: Dr. Svensson is Associate Professor in Communication Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has participated in the EU FP6 WINNER and WINNER II projects, which contributed substantially to 3GPP LTE development, the CELTIC WINNER+ project and the recently completed EU FP7 ARTIST4G project focusing on LTE-Advanced evolution, and the just started EU FP7 METIS project targeting solutions for the year 2020. He is also the initiator of a Swedish-Chinese project on IMT-Advanced and Beyond and involved in a national academic collaboration project on future wireless access. His main expertise is in design and analysis of physical layer algorithms, multiple access schemes, coordinated multipoint schemes, as well as moving relays for wireless access and wireless backhaul networks, but he also has industrial experience of higher layer design for wireless communication systems. He has co-authored two books and more than 70 journal and conference papers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, chairman of the IEEE Sweden VT/COM/IT chapter, and coordinator of the Communication Engineering Master’s Program at Chalmers.

Technical Program Committee     :

Abdulkareem Adinoyi, Saudi Telecom Company, Saudi Arabia
Raviraj Adve, University of Toronto, Canada
Jeffrey Andrews, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Federico Boccardi, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
Erdem Bala, Interdigital Communications, USA
Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Interdigital Communications, USA
Hadi Baligh, Huawei Technologies, USA
Anass Benjebbour, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan
Gurhan Bulu, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Yeesin Chan, Verizon Wireless, USA
Qinghe Du, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Jong-kae Fwu, Intel Corporation, USA
Peter Gaal, Qualcomm, USA
Tolga Girici, TOBB Economics and Technology U., Turkey
Gaoning He, Huawei Technologies, USA
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada
Yupeng Jia, National Instruments, USA
Shi Jin, Southeast University, China
Witold Krzymien, University of Alberta, Canada
Jungwon Lee, Samsung US R&D Center, USA
Sofia Martinez Lopez, Orange Labs, France
Hani Mehrpouyan, California State University, USA
Keivan Navaie, University of Leeds, UK
Apostolos Papathanassiou, Intel Corporation, USA
Parimal Parag, ASSIA Inc., USA
Sundeep Rangan, NYU-Poly, USA
Rainer Schoenen, Carleton University, Canada
Xiaodong Shen, Research Institute of China Mobile, China
Jaspreet Singh, Samsung Telecommunications, USA
Mikael Sternad, Uppsala University, Sweden
Cenk Toker, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Dimitrios Toumpakaris, University of Patras, Greece
Antti Tölli, University of Oulu, Finland
Murat Torlak, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Xianbin Wang, Western University, USA
Xiaodong Xu, Beijing U. of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Rui Yang, Interdigital Digital, USA
Yang Yi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA
Yifei Yuan, ZTE Corporation, USA