2022 IEEE ComSoc School Series and 2023 Call for Proposals

The IEEE ComSoc School Series Program is designed to provide unique opportunities for university students to learn more about cutting-edge trends in communication technologies and to connect with other students and experts currently working on these technologies.

IEEE ComSoc School Series Hybrid Kuala Lumpur Virtual Event, 20-23 June 2022
The focus of the program is on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on communication technology.

IEEE ComSoc School Series Hybrid Delhi Event, 6-9 July 2022
The theme of this event is “Technologies for Enhancing Security & Privacy in Future Communication Networks.”  Registration to participate in the online portion of the event is now open and available at no cost to ComSoc Student Members.  Learn more about this event and register.

2023 Call for Proposals for IEEE ComSoc School Series
Since 2015, the IEEE Communications Society has hosted an official international school series event(s) each year where student members can participate in unique experiences to learn about the latest technological developments in key areas of communications.

The IEEE ComSoc School Series is designed exclusively for ComSoc student members and features lectures by international experts, poster presentations, site visits, and hands-on demos on a range of fundamental to advanced and hot topics in communications.  The typical duration of an IEEE ComSoc School Series event is 3 to 5 days and can be either in-person or virtual (online only).

We are now accepting proposals through 31 August 2022 for both in-person and virtual events for the 2023 IEEE ComSoc School Series.

We invite you to submit a proposal, using the new online proposal form.  Please note the primary items requested in this form include:  Volunteer Organizer information; Date and Location of the Event; Objectives of the Event; Proposed Budget and Description of the event including the value statement for student participants. Submit your proposal here.

Another 2 Successful i-YES Events at IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 and ICC 2022

The i-YES (Young Engineers and Scientists) Education & Training Program was created to inspire PhD students, researchers and young professionals through opportunities to interact with industry professionals and academics and learn about the benefits of and how to get involved in various volunteering, educational and standardization activities. i-YES events generally take place during the annual IEEE GLOBECOM and ICC conferences (every December and May/June, respectively).

i-YES was founded back in 2016 and since then, eleven successful i-YES Tracks have been organized! Currently, i-YES is being managed by Prof. Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University, Greece and University of New Mexico, USA) and Prof. Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy). The program of i-YES includes Keynote Speeches and Inspiring Talks from well-known academics and researchers, Panels, Hands-on sessions as well as time for Q&A.

The most recent i-YES event during IEEE ICC 2022 included a Session on “From Performance Modeling to Federated Learning: Lessons Learned from the Strange/Unusual” with Keynote Speeches on “Federated Learning: State of the Art, Current Trends and Challenges” by Prof. Nelson Fonseca (Institute of Computing of the University of Campinas, Brazil & IEEE ComSoc Vice President Conferences), on “Coping with Unexpected Results” by Prof. Marco Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain) and on “Making Cell-free Massive MIMO Competitive” by Dr. Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy).

Another i-YES event took place during IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 conference in Madrid and included a Session on “The Exciting Journey from 5G to 6G” that featured a Keynote Speech “Towards Connecting the Remaining 3+ Billion” by Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology- KAUST, Saudi Arabia). Furthermore, a Panel on “From 5G to 6G - Challenges and Opportunities” was also offered in which world leaders in 5G and 6G shared their experience and discussed new ideas.  Participants in this Panel session included:

• Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy)
• Anwer Al-Dulaimi (EXFO Inc., Montreal, Canada)
• Toktam Mahmoodi (King’s College London, UK)
• R. Venkatesha Prasad (TUDelft, The Netherlands)
• Mohamed-Slim Alouini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

i-YES events will be planned for future IEEE GLOBECOM and IEEE ICC conferences so be sure to join us in these sessions.  If you have an interest in proposing an activity for inclusion in i-YES, please contact us. Looking forward to welcoming you to Rio de Janeiro (4–8 December 2022) for the twelfth edition of i-YES in GLOBECOM 2022!

ESB Member Profile: Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville

Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville joined ComSoc Educational Services Board in 2022, bringing his experience of more than 20 years teaching networking in undergrad and PhD programs. Currently, Lisandro is full professor at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and has been serving IEEE ComSoc activities in diverse roles. E.g., Lisandro was chair of the Network Operations & Management Technical Committee (CNOM), ComSoc Latin America Director, and is future GLOBECOM 2022 executive chair.

Lisandro got involved with ComSoc Educational Services Board seeking to help with strategies for attracting more people to the field. He aims specially at underdeveloped countries, where despite a visible evolution in training has happened, there is room for further and significant improvements. “I believe my experience as Professor/Advisor and my knowledge acquired from my volunteer work at ComSoc can serve the purpose of further developing ways to grab the attention of young students to the area."

For the upcoming future, Lisandro says that “the opportunities for experts in the field are largely available, but future professionals need not only to master technologies and the fundamentals behind them, but also and mainly to understand how to apply such knowledge in a diverse and globalized market. The ComSoc Educational Services Board has a key position to keep working and evolving on those matters.”

ESB Member Profile: Rolland Vida

Rolland Vida is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary, and the Head of HSN Lab, an academic research laboratory that is a the strategic partner of Ericsson for three decades now.

Rolland was involved in organizing conferences within IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Sensors Council and IEEE Smart Cities Initiative, for more than 15 years. Besides having leading roles (General Co-Chair, TPC Co-Chair, Operations Chair, etc.) in several flagship conferences of the above IEEE entities, he was also involved in the steering committees overviewing all their conference operations. He served as Operations Chair, Vice-Chair, and finally Chair of GIMS – the Globecom & ICC Management and Strategy Committee of IEEE ComSoc, he was member of ComSoc’s Conferences Council, chair of the Conferences and Events Committee of IEEE Smart Cities, and member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Sensors Council.     

Since 2015 Rolland Vida has been coordinating the participation of PhD students from BME in the Industrial Doctoral School of the EIT Digital, a leading European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organization. Since 2021 he is also a representative of his university in the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA), an alliance of Higher Education Institutions (graduate engineering schools, technology universities and full-spectrum universities) from different European countries, meant to define and implement a common model of European engineer rooted in society.

Within the Educational Services Board of ComSoc, Rolland will try to make use of all his knowledge and experience gained over the years in the IEEE conference operations, and the European educational organizations he is involved with.