Technical Program Committee

Technical Program Chair

Hossam Hassanein
Queen's University, Canada

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Soumaya Cherkaoui
Polytechnique Montreal

Dusit (Tao) Niyato
NTU, Singapore

GITC Advisor

Lisandro Granville
UFRGS, Brazil

Workshops Co-Chairs

Melike Erol-Kantarci
University of Ottawa, Canada

Salil Kanhere
University of New South Wales, UK

Mohamed Younis
University of Maryland, USA

Tutorials Co-Chairs

Cheng Li
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Abdallah Shami
Western University, Canada

Nizar Zorba
Qatar University, Qatar

Publications Co-Chairs

Sharief Oteafy
DePaul University, USA

Ahmed Refaey Hussein
University of Guelph, Canada

Perikilis Chatzimios
University of New Mexico, USA

Awards Co-Chairs

Walaa Hamouda
Concordia University, Canada

Jelena Misic
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Student Travel Grant Co-Chairs

Damla Turgut
University of Central Florida, USA

Rolland Vida
Budapest University of Technological and Economics, Hungary

Chad Assi
Concordia University, Canada

Symposium Chairs

COGNITIVE RADIO AND AI-ENABLED NETWORKS

Yu Cheng
Illinois Tech

Zehui Xiong
Singapore University of Technology and Design

COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY

Xinwen Fu
UMass Lowell

Francesco Chiti
University of Florence

Imad Elhajj
American University of Beirut

COMMUNICATION QOS, RELIABILITY AND MODELING

Ayman Radwan
Instituto de Telecomunicações

Kenji Kanai
The University of Tokyo

Javier Berrocal
Universidad de Extremadura

COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND MULTIMEDIA

Safa Otoum
Zayed University, UAE

Zhi Wang
Tsinghua University

COMMUNICATION THEORY

Y.-W. Peter Hong
National Tsing Hua University

Yuanwei Liu
The University of Hong Kong

Jie Xu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

GREEN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Shahid Mumtaz
Nottingham Trent University

Daniel K.C. So
The University of Manchester

IOT AND SENSOR NETWORKS

Bomin Mao
Northwestern Polytechnical University

Moez Esseghir
Ecole Nationale des Sciences Informatique (ENSI)

Khalid Elgazzar
Ontario Tech University

Lotfi Mhamdi
University of Leeds

MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKS

Sidi Mohamed Senouci
University of Burgundy, France

Soufiene Djahel
Centre for Future Transport and Cities

Xiaolan Liu
Loughborough University London

Ayman Kayssi
American University of Beirut

NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKING AND INTERNET

Kapal Dev
Munster Technological University, Ireland

Ilhem Fajjari
Orange Labs

Panagiotis Papadimitriou
University of Macedonia

OPTICAL NETWORKS & SYSTEMS

Francesco Musumeci
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Scott Fowler
Linköping University

SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS

Dimitrie C. Popescu
Old Dominion University

Yuan Shen
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Mojtaba Vaezi
Villanova University

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Chunhua Pan
Southeast University

Lin Bai
Beihang University

Haixia Zhang
Shandong University

Fang Fang
Western University

Mauro Biagi
Sapienza Università di Roma

SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS

SAC - AERIAL COMMUNICATION

Fatemeh Afghah
Clemson University

SAC - BACKHAUL/FRONTHAUL NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Marco Ruffini
Trinity College Dublin

SAC - BIG DATA

Brij Bhooshan Gupta
Asia University, Taiwan

SAC - CLOUD COMPUTING, NETWORKING AND DATA STORAGE

Halima Elbiaze
Université du Québec à Montréal

Akram Hakiri
University of Pau & Pays de I'Adour, France

SAC - E-HEALTH

Andrea Sciarrone
Università degli Studi di Genova

Ayan Mondal
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India

SAC - INTEGRATED SENSING & COMMUNICATIONS

Weijie Yuan
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

SAC - MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKING

Hoang Dinh
University of Technology Sydney

Sinem Coleri
Koç University

SAC - MOLECULAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND MULTI-SCALE COMMUNICATIONS

Maximilian Schäfer
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dimitrios Makrakis
University of Ottawa

SAC - QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Guido Dietl
Universität Würzburg

SAC - RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACES & SMART ENVIRONMENTS

Aryan Kaushik
University of Sussex

SAC - SATELLITE AND SPACE COMMUNICATIONS

Cedric Westphal
Huawei

Andreas Knopp
University of the Bundeswehr Munich

SAC - SMART GRID COMMUNICATIONS

Kun Yang
University of Essex

SAC - SOCIAL NETWORKS

Valeria Loscri
Inria Lille-Nord Europe