ISPACS 2024

International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems
December 10-13, 2024

Keynote Speakers


  • H. T. Kung
  • George C.Alexandropoulos
  • Kuan-Wei Su
  • Sinem Coleri
  • Takamitsu Tanaka

H. T. Kung

Harvard University
USA
ACM Fellow

Model Pretraining and Aligned Representation Everywhere

Model pretraining and aligned representation are two fundamental techniques for multimodal large language models. The former allows for the reuse of costly trained models, while the latter enables the use of less expensive and more accessible modalities during inference. It turns out that these techniques are also beneficial for various other applications, such as (1) gaze estimation using AR/VR glasses, (2) machine tools, (3) chip design, and (4) edge AI, as we will discuss.


Short Biography

H. T. Kung is William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University. He conducts research on topics related to the application of artificial intelligence in manufacturing and healthcare, AI accelerators, VLSI design, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, computer architectures, and computer networks.

Professor Kung received his bachelor's degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1968. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973. He taught at Carnegie Mellon for 19 years before joining Harvard in 1992.

Professor Kung is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering for introducing the idea of systolic computation, contributions to parallel computing, and applying complexity analysis to very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) computation. In addition, Professor Kung is an ACM Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, an elected member of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, as well as the president and co-founder of the Taiwan AI Academy, a non-profit organization which has cultivated over 10,000 AI talents for industries since 2019.

Professor Kung received the 1990 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, the 1991 Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the Year Award, the 2015 ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems (SIGOPS) Hall of Fame Award, and the 2023 IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Award for his contributions to concurrency control and systolic arrays in distributed systems .


George Alexandropoulos

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greece
Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc

Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Programmable Signal Reflections to Distributed Intelligent Sensing

The upcoming 6G pushes the 5G performance indicators to unprecedented levels, envisioning up to THz frequencies, devices with embedded sensing capabilities, and native artificial intelligence. These challenging features are expected to become a reality around 2030 and with a strong green footprint. In this keynote, we will elaborate around the emerging technology of hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) that enable low overhead explicit/implicit channel estimation, and consequently efficient configuration optimization, as well as integrated sensing and communication applications. We will first discuss recent results on the capacity characterization of RIS-enabled smart wireless environments and then present emerging hardware architectures for multi-functional hybrid active and passive metasurfaces, as well as their latest considerations for sensing-aided communications and distributed sensing.


Short Biography

George C. Alexandropoulos received the Engineering Diploma (Integrated M.S.c), M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece in 2003, 2005, and 2010, respectively. He has held senior research positions at various Greek universities and research institutes, and he was a Senior Research Engineer and a Principal Researcher at the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies France, and at the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. His research interests span the general areas of algorithmic design and performance analysis for wireless networks with emphasis on multi-antenna transceiver hardware architectures, full duplex radios, active and passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), Integrated Sensing And Communications (ISAC), millimeter wave and THz communications, as well as distributed machine learning algorithms. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, and the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies. Prof. Alexandropoulos is a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications, Signal Processing, Vehicular Technology, and Information Theory Societies, the Chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking, as well as a registered Professional Engineer of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has participated and/or technically managed more than 15 European Union, international, and Greek research, innovation, and development projects, including the H2020 RISE‑6G, SNS JU TERRAMETA, SNS JU 6G-DISAC, and ESA PRISM projects dealing with RIS-empowered smart wireless environments, THz RISs, distributed ISAC, and RIS demonstration for localization and mapping, respectively. He has received the best Ph.D. thesis award 2010, the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Professional in Industry Award 2018, the EURASIP Best Paper Award of the Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2021, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2021, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, the IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prizes 2023 and 2024, and the IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize 2024. More information is available at www.alexandropoulos.info..


Kuan-Wei Su

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Taiwan

Modern Laser and Spectroscopic Technologies for Precision Retinal Treatment and Healthcare

Precision treatment and precision health are trends in improving human health. Use our experience as an example to reflect on key concepts and introduce novel laser technologies. Recent academic and industry-university cooperation outcomes for intelligent biomedical applications are reported. First, new medical laser instruments were commercialized for treating eye diseases such as retinopathy and macular degeneration based on multi-wavelength Raman laser technology breakthroughs. Further, combining real-time optical coherence tomography (OCT) and AI-assisted diagnosis would result in precision retinal treatment. Second, we have created new detection methods and applications for preventive and precision healthcare, primarily based on spectroscopic quantification principles. It has also successfully used innovative concepts to achieve affordability and personalization for home use.

Short Biography

Kuan-Wei Su was born in 1979. He received his Ph.D. in electrophysics from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in 2007. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Electrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU). His research interests and activities cover laser physics and engineering, modern optics, high-speed dynamics and application of light-matter Interaction, cross-disciplinary physics, industrial and biomedical photonic systems. More information is available at https://sites.google.com/nycu.edu.tw/kwsu-lab.


Sinem Coleri

Koc University
Turkey
IEEE Fellow

AI Based Ultra-Reliable Wireless Networked Control Systems in 6G

Unlike previous generations of networks, which were primarily designed to meet the requirements of human communications, 5G networks enable the collection of data from the machines as well. The total number of devices is expected to be around 26 billion in 2026, according to the Ericsson Mobility Report. Looking forward to 6G systems, the focus shifts towards leveraging this data for a new spectrum of control applications, including extended reality, remote surgery and autonomous vehicle platoons. Designing communication systems for these control applications poses unique challenges. It requires meeting stringent requirements for delay and reliability, addressing the semantics of control systems and ensuring robust resource management. In the first part of this talk, ultra-reliable channel modeling and communication techniques are presented based on extreme value theory and generative artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI enables predicting the channel parameters with higher accuracy while incorporating various system inputs and providing adaptivity to dynamic scenarios. In the second part of the talk, the benefits of employing explainable and safe AI in radio resource management for the joint design of control and communication systems in 6G networks are highlighted. This approach offers a systematic methodology to enhance robustness and interpret decisions made by black-box AI models.


Short Biography

Sinem Coleri is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL) and director of Ford Otosan Automotive Technologies Laboratory. Sinem Coleri received the BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California Berkeley in 2002 and 2005. She worked as a research scientist in Wireless Sensor Networks Berkeley Lab under sponsorship of Pirelli and Telecom Italia from 2006 to 2009. Since September 2009, she has been a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. Her research interests are in 6G wireless communications and networking, machine learning for wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, wireless networked control systems and vehicular networks.

Dr. Coleri has more than 150 publications with citations over 10700 (Google scholar profile). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022; TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2020. Dr. Coleri currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief at the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Dr. Coleri is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.


Takamitsu Tanaka

Iwate University
Japan
Japan Design Institute Delegate

Sustainability of Wooden Technology and Culture from the Industrial Design Perspective

We use the Earth's resources in our life. The theme of the speech is “wood,” which is one of the natural resources. In particular, examples of traditional wooden techniques, culture, product design, and research will be discussed. This international conference will be held in Taiwan. Some Japanese wooden techniques emerged from Taiwan approximately 30,000 years ago. Scandinavia has many famous furniture brands; however, Asian countries have original wooden techniques and furniture designs adapted to the climate. In particular, wooden joints that connect pieces of wood without nails have flourished in Asia. We will introduce the latest research on wooden joints.


Short Biography

After graduating from Kobe Design University, Dr. Tanaka got an MA in industrial design at the Graduate School of Central St Martins College of Art and Design, in London. After graduation, he worked at Tanaka Design Office as a product designer. Working on the Design of home electronics, cell phones, industrial machines, lights and so forth, he got many prizes of "Good Designing Award". After getting his Doctor's degree at Chiba University, he became a professor at Iwate University. With a focus on collaboration study with companies and contract studies, he exhibits a lot of Nanbu Tekki Products (Traditional Japanese Diecast) especially in Europe. He has conducted cooperative studies with Iwayado Tansu Company (Traditional Japanese Furniture), which works in traditional hand crafted furniture in Iwate, from 2005.