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Events of December 3  
Opening Remarks
General Chair Remarks, Kaveh Pahlavan
WPI Provost Remarks,Winston Soboyejo
Executive Chair Remarks, Reza Zekavat

Keynote Speaker
Shaygan Kheradpir , Former CTIO Verizon, Group COO Barclays, CEOs Juniper Networks & Coriant (Introduced by Kaveh Pahlavan)
Talk Title: The New Technology Era is Upon Us - Undergird by 5G



Keynote Speaker
Lajos Hanzo , University of Southampton, UK (Introduced by Savo Glisic)
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications



Panel 1: Advances in QC on Spectrum Management and Regulations

Moderator: Savo Glisic (WPI)


Panelists:
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications

Jeffrey H Shapiro , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk Title: The quantum limit on wireless communication of classical information

Luis F. Zuluaga, Lehigh University
Talk Title: Quantum computing in spectrum management and regulation

Savo Glisic, WPI
Talk Title: Quantum Search Algorithms












Panel 2: Spectrum Sharing for 6G and Beyond

Moderator: Ali Abedi (U of Maine)


Panelists:
Ekram Hossain, U. of Manitoba
Talk Title: Spectrally-Efficient Multiple Access Design in the Beyond 5G Era: From Cellular NOMA to Cell-Free NOMA

Yingying Chen, Rutgers University
Talk Title: Near Real-time Spectrum Usage Detection and Sharing via Mobile Sensing

Maziar Nekovee, Sussex University, UK (Formerly Chief Engineer at Samsung)
Talk Title: Spectrum sharing for vertical sectors

Sastri Kota, President, SoHum Consultants
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing Challenges for Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Era

Scott Burleigh, NASA JPL, and Vice Chair, InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group
Talk Title: Delay-Tolerant Networking for Spectrum Economy














Keynote Speaker
Preston Marshall , Co-Chair of Spectrum Sharing Committee, CBRS Standards, Wireless Innovation Forum (Introduced by Ali Abedi)
Talk Title: Unmet Technical and Policy Research Needs for Sharing and More Effective Utilization of Spectrum



Panel 3: Economy and Business Development for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Oleg V. Pavlov (WPI)

Panelists:
Masoud Olfat, Federated Wireless
Talk Title: CBRS: A real world success for dynamic Spectrum Sharing

Randall Berry, Northwestern University
Talk Title: The Interplay between Economics and Technology for Spectrum Access

Jerry Ellig, George Washington University
Talk Title: A Brief History of Spectrum Allocation

Jeff Prince, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Talk Title: An Economic Assessment of Spectrum Auctions in the U.S.

George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Talk Title: Spectrum Smart Contracts for Ephemeral Connectivity Environments

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Utilizing spectrum sharing to achieve an efficient and economical wireless network architecture













Panel 4: Hardware and RF for Spectrum Management

Moderator: Gregory D Durgin (GaTech)

Panelists:
Steven Best, Megawave Co.
Talk Title: Antenna Technology Unlocks Future Spectrum Availability

Paul Jaffe, Naval Research Laboratories
Talk Title: Power Beaming and Space Solar

Matthew Trotter, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Talk Title: Edge Computing and Software-Defined Radio for Spectrum Collaboration

Kobus Van Der Merwe, University of Utah
Talk Title: Using the POWDER platform for spectrum management research

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, Arizona State University
Talk Title: RF Devices for Future Spectrum Usage

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Active/Smart Antennas required to unlock the full potentials of 6G and beyond















Events of December 4 
Opening Remarks
Kaveh Pahlavan, General Chair
Keynote Speaker
Reza Arefi, Director, Spectrum Strategy at Intel Corporation (Introduced by Reza Zekavat)
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing – The Road Not Taken


Keynote Speaker
Ian Akyildiz, Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory (Introduced by Gregory D Durgin)
Talk Title: Enabling Wireless Communication in TeraHertz Bands
Panel 5: Education and Workforce Development to Broaden Participation

Moderator: Suzanne Weekes (Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, ad interim, WPI
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
Incoming Executive Director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

Panelists:
Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University
Talk Title: Incorporating Inclusion-Diversity-Equity Concepts in Undergraduate Engineering Education

Susan McKay, Founding Director of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education and Professor of Physics
Talk Title: Using Research-Practice Partnerships to Build and Sustain Improvements in Education and Workforce Development

Kathy Chen, Exec Director STEM Education, WPI
Talk Title: Innovative and Inclusive Education

Elke Rundensteiner, Founding Director of the Data Science Program, Professor, Computer Science, WPI
Talk Title: Developing Graduate Professional Leaders For Diverse Career Paths

Elliot Moore II, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Defining Undergraduate Career Paths for Impact in Diversity and Inclusion

Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Talk Title: The role of professional societies in career and workforce development

















Panel 6: Edge and Cloud Network Architectures for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Weisong Shi (WSU)

Panelists:
Jeongho Jeon, Samsung Research USA
Talk Title: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Beyond 5G and 6G

Fan Bai, General Motors
Talk Title: Automotive Cloud Computing

Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T
Talk Title: RAN disaggregation and role of edge computing in RAN Innovation

Collin Castle, Michigan Department of Transportation
Talk Title: Cooperative Automated Transportation (CAT) Infrastructure Readiness

Mohammad Akhtar,Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: The role of o-RAN (open radio access network) in the enablement of Edge/Cloud architectures

Onur Altintas, Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota
Talk Title: Spectrum for Vehicles


















Keynote Speaker
Georgios B. Giannakis, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Minnesota (Introduced by Donald Brown)
Talk Title: Sparsity and Low Rank for Inference of Cognitive Network States



Panel 7: THz Technologies for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Alenka Zajic (GaTech)

Panelists:
Roya Doostnejad, Intel
Talk Title: Future of THz Wireless Communications

Gerhard Schoenthal, Virginia Diodes Inc.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware

Jeanne Quimby, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware and communications

Ingmar Kallfass, U of Stuttgart
Talk Title: The viability of terahertz directional links to provide Gigabit data rates in real-world wireless communication systems

Victor M. Lubecke, University of Hawaii
Talk Title: THz Applications in Physiological Monitoring












Panel 8: Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Reza Zekavat (WPI)

Panelists:
Mike Fang, University of Florida
Talk Title: Architectural Network Design for Intelligent Spectrum Sharing

Liuqing Yang, University of Minnesota
Talk Title: Model-Enhanced Learning-based Detection (ME-LeaD) for Multi-User 1-bit mmWave

Zhiguo Ding, University of Manchester
Talk Title: Feature Extraction to Facilitate Applications of Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London
Talk Title: Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Modulation Classifiers

Shucheng Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Privacy and robustness of distribute learning based spectrum sharing

Omid Semiari, University of Colorado- Colorado Springs
Talk Title: Spectrum Management for AI-Enabled Industrial IoT Networks













Closing Remarks
Events of December 3
Opening Remarks
General Chair Remarks, Kaveh Pahlavan
WPI Provost Remarks,Winston Soboyejo
Executive Chair Remarks, Reza Zekavat
Keynote Speaker
Shaygan Kheradpir , Former CTIO Verizon, Group COO Barclays, CEOs Juniper Networks & Coriant (Introduced by Kaveh Pahlavan)
Talk Title: The New Technology Era is Upon Us - Undergird by 5G
Keynote Speaker
Lajos Hanzo , University of Southampton, UK (Introduced by Savo Glisic)
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications
Panel 1: Advances in QC on Spectrum Management and Regulations

Moderator: Savo Glisic (WPI)

Panelists:
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications

Jeffrey H Shapiro , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk Title: The quantum limit on wireless communication of classical information

Luis F. Zuluaga, Lehigh University
Talk Title: Quantum computing in spectrum management and regulation

Savo Glisic, WPI
Talk Title: Quantum Search Algorithms
Panel 2: Spectrum Sharing for 6G and Beyond

Moderator: Ali Abedi (U of Maine)

Panelists:
Ekram Hossain, U. of Manitoba
Talk Title: Spectrally-Efficient Multiple Access Design in the Beyond 5G Era: From Cellular NOMA to Cell-Free NOMA

Yingying Chen, Rutgers University
Talk Title: Near Real-time Spectrum Usage Detection and Sharing via Mobile Sensing

Maziar Nekovee, Sussex University, UK (Formerly Chief Engineer at Samsung)
Talk Title: Spectrum sharing for vertical sectors

Sastri Kota, President, SoHum Consultants
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing Challenges for Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Era

Scott Burleigh, NASA JPL, and Vice Chair, InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group
Talk Title: Delay-Tolerant Networking for Spectrum Economy

Keynote Speaker
Preston Marshall , Co-Chair of Spectrum Sharing Committee, CBRS Standards, Wireless Innovation Forum (Introduced by Ali Abedi)
Talk Title: Unmet Technical and Policy Research Needs for Sharing and More Effective Utilization of Spectrum
Panel 3: Economy and Business Development for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Oleg V. Pavlov (WPI)

Panelists:
Masoud Olfat, Federated Wireless
Talk Title: CBRS: A real world success for dynamic Spectrum Sharing

Randall Berry, Northwestern University
Talk Title: The Interplay between Economics and Technology for Spectrum Access

Jerry Ellig, George Washington University
Talk Title: A Brief History of Spectrum Allocation

Jeff Prince, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Talk Title: An Economic Assessment of Spectrum Auctions in the U.S.

George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Talk Title: Spectrum Smart Contracts for Ephemeral Connectivity Environments

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Utilizing spectrum sharing to achieve an efficient and economical wireless network architecture
Panel 4: Hardware and RF for Spectrum Management

Moderator: Gregory D Durgin (GaTech)

Panelists:
Steven Best, Megawave Co.
Talk Title: Antenna Technology Unlocks Future Spectrum Availability

Paul Jaffe, Naval Research Laboratories
Talk Title: Power Beaming and Space Solar

Matthew Trotter, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Talk Title: Edge Computing and Software-Defined Radio for Spectrum Collaboration

Kobus Van Der Merwe, University of Utah
Talk Title: Using the POWDER platform for spectrum management research

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, Arizona State University
Talk Title: RF Devices for Future Spectrum Usage

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Active/Smart Antennas required to unlock the full potentials of 6G and beyond
Events of December 4
Opening Remarks
Kaveh Pahlavan, General Chair
Keynote Speaker
Reza Arefi, Director, Spectrum Strategy at Intel Corporation (Introduced by Reza Zekavat)
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing – The Road Not Taken
Keynote Speaker
Ian Akyildiz, Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory (Introduced by Gregory D Durgin)
Talk Title: Enabling Wireless Communication in TeraHertz Bands
Panel 5: Education and Workforce Development to Broaden Participation

Moderator: Suzanne Weekes (Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, ad interim, WPI
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
Incoming Executive Director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

Panelists:
Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University
Talk Title: Incorporating Inclusion-Diversity-Equity Concepts in Undergraduate Engineering Education

Susan McKay, Founding Director of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education and Professor of Physics
Talk Title: Using Research-Practice Partnerships to Build and Sustain Improvements in Education and Workforce Development

Kathy Chen, Exec Director STEM Education, WPI
Talk Title: Innovative and Inclusive Education

Elke Rundensteiner, Founding Director of the Data Science Program, Professor, Computer Science, WPI
Talk Title: Developing Graduate Professional Leaders For Diverse Career Paths

Elliot Moore II, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Defining Undergraduate Career Paths for Impact in Diversity and Inclusion

Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Talk Title: The role of professional societies in career and workforce development
Panel 6: Edge and Cloud Network Architectures for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Weisong Shi (WSU)

Panelists:
Jeongho Jeon, Samsung Research USA
Talk Title: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Beyond 5G and 6G

Fan Bai, General Motors
Talk Title: Automotive Cloud Computing

Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T
Talk Title: RAN disaggregation and role of edge computing in RAN Innovation
Collin Castle, Michigan Department of Transportation
Talk Title: Cooperative Automated Transportation (CAT) Infrastructure Readiness

Mohammad Akhtar,Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: The role of o-RAN (open radio access network) in the enablement of Edge/Cloud architectures

Onur Altintas, Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota
Talk Title: Spectrum for Vehicles
Keynote Speaker
Georgios B. Giannakis, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Minnesota (Introduced by Donald Brown)
Talk Title: Sparsity and Low Rank for Inference of Cognitive Network States
Panel 7: THz Technologies for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Alenka Zajic (GaTech)

Panelists:
Roya Doostnejad, Intel
Talk Title: Future of THz Wireless Communications

Gerhard Schoenthal, Virginia Diodes Inc.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware

Jeanne Quimby, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware and communications

Ingmar Kallfass, U of Stuttgart
Talk Title: The viability of terahertz directional links to provide Gigabit data rates in real-world wireless communication systems

Victor M. Lubecke, University of Hawaii
Talk Title: THz Applications in Physiological Monitoring
Panel 8: Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Reza Zekavat (WPI)

Panelists:
Mike Fang, University of Florida
Talk Title: Architectural Network Design for Intelligent Spectrum Sharing

Liuqing Yang, University of Minnesota
Talk Title: Model-Enhanced Learning-based Detection (ME-LeaD) for Multi-User 1-bit mmWave

Zhiguo Ding, University of Manchester
Talk Title: Feature Extraction to Facilitate Applications of Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London
Talk Title: Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Modulation Classifiers

Shucheng Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Privacy and robustness of distribute learning based spectrum sharing

Omid Semiari, University of Colorado- Colorado Springs
Talk Title: Spectrum Management for AI-Enabled Industrial IoT Networks
Closing Remarks
Events of December 3  
Opening Remarks
General Chair Remarks, Kaveh Pahlavan
WPI Provost Remarks,Winston Soboyejo
Executive Chair Remarks, Reza Zekavat

Keynote Speaker
Shaygan Kheradpir , Former CTIO Verizon, Group COO Barclays, CEOs Juniper Networks & Coriant (Introduced by Kaveh Pahlavan)
Talk Title: The New Technology Era is Upon Us - Undergird by 5G



Keynote Speaker
Lajos Hanzo , University of Southampton, UK (Introduced by Savo Glisic)
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications



Panel 1: Advances in QC on Spectrum Management and Regulations

Moderator: Savo Glisic (WPI)


Panelists:
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications

Jeffrey H Shapiro , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk Title: The quantum limit on wireless communication of classical information

Luis F. Zuluaga, Lehigh University
Talk Title: Quantum computing in spectrum management and regulation

Savo Glisic, WPI
Talk Title: Quantum Search Algorithms












Panel 2: Spectrum Sharing for 6G and Beyond

Moderator: Ali Abedi (U of Maine)


Panelists:
Ekram Hossain, U. of Manitoba
Talk Title: Spectrally-Efficient Multiple Access Design in the Beyond 5G Era: From Cellular NOMA to Cell-Free NOMA

Yingying Chen, Rutgers University
Talk Title: Near Real-time Spectrum Usage Detection and Sharing via Mobile Sensing

Maziar Nekovee, Sussex University, UK (Formerly Chief Engineer at Samsung)
Talk Title: Spectrum sharing for vertical sectors

Sastri Kota, President, SoHum Consultants
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing Challenges for Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Era

Scott Burleigh, NASA JPL, and Vice Chair, InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group
Talk Title: Delay-Tolerant Networking for Spectrum Economy














Keynote Speaker
Preston Marshall , Co-Chair of Spectrum Sharing Committee, CBRS Standards, Wireless Innovation Forum (Introduced by Ali Abedi)
Talk Title: Unmet Technical and Policy Research Needs for Sharing and More Effective Utilization of Spectrum



Panel 3: Economy and Business Development for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Oleg V. Pavlov (WPI)

Panelists:
Masoud Olfat, Federated Wireless
Talk Title: CBRS: A real world success for dynamic Spectrum Sharing

Randall Berry, Northwestern University
Talk Title: The Interplay between Economics and Technology for Spectrum Access

Jerry Ellig, George Washington University
Talk Title: A Brief History of Spectrum Allocation

Jeff Prince, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Talk Title: An Economic Assessment of Spectrum Auctions in the U.S.

George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Talk Title: Spectrum Smart Contracts for Ephemeral Connectivity Environments

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Utilizing spectrum sharing to achieve an efficient and economical wireless network architecture













Panel 4: Hardware and RF for Spectrum Management

Moderator: Gregory D Durgin (GaTech)

Panelists:
Steven Best, Megawave Co.
Talk Title: Antenna Technology Unlocks Future Spectrum Availability

Paul Jaffe, Naval Research Laboratories
Talk Title: Power Beaming and Space Solar

Matthew Trotter, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Talk Title: Edge Computing and Software-Defined Radio for Spectrum Collaboration

Kobus Van Der Merwe, University of Utah
Talk Title: Using the POWDER platform for spectrum management research

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, Arizona State University
Talk Title: RF Devices for Future Spectrum Usage

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Active/Smart Antennas required to unlock the full potentials of 6G and beyond















Events of December 4 
Opening Remarks
Kaveh Pahlavan, General Chair
Keynote Speaker
Reza Arefi, Director, Spectrum Strategy at Intel Corporation (Introduced by Reza Zekavat)
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing – The Road Not Taken


Keynote Speaker
Ian Akyildiz, Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory (Introduced by Gregory D Durgin)
Talk Title: Enabling Wireless Communication in TeraHertz Bands
Panel 5: Education and Workforce Development to Broaden Participation

Moderator: Suzanne Weekes (Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, ad interim, WPI
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
Incoming Executive Director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

Panelists:
Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University
Talk Title: Incorporating Inclusion-Diversity-Equity Concepts in Undergraduate Engineering Education

Susan McKay, Founding Director of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education and Professor of Physics
Talk Title: Using Research-Practice Partnerships to Build and Sustain Improvements in Education and Workforce Development

Kathy Chen, Exec Director STEM Education, WPI
Talk Title: Innovative and Inclusive Education

Elke Rundensteiner, Founding Director of the Data Science Program, Professor, Computer Science, WPI
Talk Title: Developing Graduate Professional Leaders For Diverse Career Paths

Elliot Moore II, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Defining Undergraduate Career Paths for Impact in Diversity and Inclusion

Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Talk Title: The role of professional societies in career and workforce development

















Panel 6: Edge and Cloud Network Architectures for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Weisong Shi (WSU)

Panelists:
Jeongho Jeon, Samsung Research USA
Talk Title: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Beyond 5G and 6G

Fan Bai, General Motors
Talk Title: Automotive Cloud Computing

Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T
Talk Title: RAN disaggregation and role of edge computing in RAN Innovation

Collin Castle, Michigan Department of Transportation
Talk Title: Cooperative Automated Transportation (CAT) Infrastructure Readiness

Mohammad Akhtar,Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: The role of o-RAN (open radio access network) in the enablement of Edge/Cloud architectures

Onur Altintas, Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota
Talk Title: Spectrum for Vehicles


















Keynote Speaker
Georgios B. Giannakis, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Minnesota (Introduced by Donald Brown)
Talk Title: Sparsity and Low Rank for Inference of Cognitive Network States



Panel 7: THz Technologies for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Alenka Zajic (GaTech)

Panelists:
Roya Doostnejad, Intel
Talk Title: Future of THz Wireless Communications

Gerhard Schoenthal, Virginia Diodes Inc.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware

Jeanne Quimby, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware and communications

Ingmar Kallfass, U of Stuttgart
Talk Title: The viability of terahertz directional links to provide Gigabit data rates in real-world wireless communication systems

Victor M. Lubecke, University of Hawaii
Talk Title: THz Applications in Physiological Monitoring












Panel 8: Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Reza Zekavat (WPI)

Panelists:
Mike Fang, University of Florida
Talk Title: Architectural Network Design for Intelligent Spectrum Sharing

Liuqing Yang, University of Minnesota
Talk Title: Model-Enhanced Learning-based Detection (ME-LeaD) for Multi-User 1-bit mmWave

Zhiguo Ding, University of Manchester
Talk Title: Feature Extraction to Facilitate Applications of Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London
Talk Title: Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Modulation Classifiers

Shucheng Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Privacy and robustness of distribute learning based spectrum sharing

Omid Semiari, University of Colorado- Colorado Springs
Talk Title: Spectrum Management for AI-Enabled Industrial IoT Networks













Closing Remarks
Events of December 3
Opening Remarks
General Chair Remarks, Kaveh Pahlavan
WPI Provost Remarks,Winston Soboyejo
Executive Chair Remarks, Reza Zekavat
Keynote Speaker
Shaygan Kheradpir , Former CTIO Verizon, Group COO Barclays, CEOs Juniper Networks & Coriant (Introduced by Kaveh Pahlavan)
Talk Title: The New Technology Era is Upon Us - Undergird by 5G
Keynote Speaker
Lajos Hanzo , University of Southampton, UK (Introduced by Savo Glisic)
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications
Panel 1: Advances in QC on Spectrum Management and Regulations

Moderator: Savo Glisic (WPI)

Panelists:
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Talk Title: Benefits of using QC in wireless communications

Jeffrey H Shapiro , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk Title: The quantum limit on wireless communication of classical information

Luis F. Zuluaga, Lehigh University
Talk Title: Quantum computing in spectrum management and regulation

Savo Glisic, WPI
Talk Title: Quantum Search Algorithms
Panel 2: Spectrum Sharing for 6G and Beyond

Moderator: Ali Abedi (U of Maine)

Panelists:
Ekram Hossain, U. of Manitoba
Talk Title: Spectrally-Efficient Multiple Access Design in the Beyond 5G Era: From Cellular NOMA to Cell-Free NOMA

Yingying Chen, Rutgers University
Talk Title: Near Real-time Spectrum Usage Detection and Sharing via Mobile Sensing

Maziar Nekovee, Sussex University, UK (Formerly Chief Engineer at Samsung)
Talk Title: Spectrum sharing for vertical sectors

Sastri Kota, President, SoHum Consultants
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing Challenges for Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Era

Scott Burleigh, NASA JPL, and Vice Chair, InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group
Talk Title: Delay-Tolerant Networking for Spectrum Economy

Keynote Speaker
Preston Marshall , Co-Chair of Spectrum Sharing Committee, CBRS Standards, Wireless Innovation Forum (Introduced by Ali Abedi)
Talk Title: Unmet Technical and Policy Research Needs for Sharing and More Effective Utilization of Spectrum
Panel 3: Economy and Business Development for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Oleg V. Pavlov (WPI)

Panelists:
Masoud Olfat, Federated Wireless
Talk Title: CBRS: A real world success for dynamic Spectrum Sharing

Randall Berry, Northwestern University
Talk Title: The Interplay between Economics and Technology for Spectrum Access

Jerry Ellig, George Washington University
Talk Title: A Brief History of Spectrum Allocation

Jeff Prince, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Talk Title: An Economic Assessment of Spectrum Auctions in the U.S.

George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Talk Title: Spectrum Smart Contracts for Ephemeral Connectivity Environments

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Utilizing spectrum sharing to achieve an efficient and economical wireless network architecture
Panel 4: Hardware and RF for Spectrum Management

Moderator: Gregory D Durgin (GaTech)

Panelists:
Steven Best, Megawave Co.
Talk Title: Antenna Technology Unlocks Future Spectrum Availability

Paul Jaffe, Naval Research Laboratories
Talk Title: Power Beaming and Space Solar

Matthew Trotter, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Talk Title: Edge Computing and Software-Defined Radio for Spectrum Collaboration

Kobus Van Der Merwe, University of Utah
Talk Title: Using the POWDER platform for spectrum management research

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, Arizona State University
Talk Title: RF Devices for Future Spectrum Usage

Mohammad Akhtar, Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: Active/Smart Antennas required to unlock the full potentials of 6G and beyond
Events of December 4
Opening Remarks
Kaveh Pahlavan, General Chair
Keynote Speaker
Reza Arefi, Director, Spectrum Strategy at Intel Corporation (Introduced by Reza Zekavat)
Talk Title: Spectrum Sharing – The Road Not Taken
Keynote Speaker
Ian Akyildiz, Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory (Introduced by Gregory D Durgin)
Talk Title: Enabling Wireless Communication in TeraHertz Bands
Panel 5: Education and Workforce Development to Broaden Participation

Moderator: Suzanne Weekes (Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, ad interim, WPI
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
Incoming Executive Director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

Panelists:
Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University
Talk Title: Incorporating Inclusion-Diversity-Equity Concepts in Undergraduate Engineering Education

Susan McKay, Founding Director of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education and Professor of Physics
Talk Title: Using Research-Practice Partnerships to Build and Sustain Improvements in Education and Workforce Development

Kathy Chen, Exec Director STEM Education, WPI
Talk Title: Innovative and Inclusive Education

Elke Rundensteiner, Founding Director of the Data Science Program, Professor, Computer Science, WPI
Talk Title: Developing Graduate Professional Leaders For Diverse Career Paths

Elliot Moore II, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Defining Undergraduate Career Paths for Impact in Diversity and Inclusion

Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Talk Title: The role of professional societies in career and workforce development
Panel 6: Edge and Cloud Network Architectures for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Weisong Shi (WSU)

Panelists:
Jeongho Jeon, Samsung Research USA
Talk Title: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Beyond 5G and 6G

Fan Bai, General Motors
Talk Title: Automotive Cloud Computing

Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T
Talk Title: RAN disaggregation and role of edge computing in RAN Innovation
Collin Castle, Michigan Department of Transportation
Talk Title: Cooperative Automated Transportation (CAT) Infrastructure Readiness

Mohammad Akhtar,Former SVP Motorola Asia Pacific and Middle East
Talk Title: The role of o-RAN (open radio access network) in the enablement of Edge/Cloud architectures

Onur Altintas, Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota
Talk Title: Spectrum for Vehicles
Keynote Speaker
Georgios B. Giannakis, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Minnesota (Introduced by Donald Brown)
Talk Title: Sparsity and Low Rank for Inference of Cognitive Network States
Panel 7: THz Technologies for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Alenka Zajic (GaTech)

Panelists:
Roya Doostnejad, Intel
Talk Title: Future of THz Wireless Communications

Gerhard Schoenthal, Virginia Diodes Inc.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware

Jeanne Quimby, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Talk Title: Future directions for THz hardware and communications

Ingmar Kallfass, U of Stuttgart
Talk Title: The viability of terahertz directional links to provide Gigabit data rates in real-world wireless communication systems

Victor M. Lubecke, University of Hawaii
Talk Title: THz Applications in Physiological Monitoring
Panel 8: Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Spectrum Sharing

Moderator: Reza Zekavat (WPI)

Panelists:
Mike Fang, University of Florida
Talk Title: Architectural Network Design for Intelligent Spectrum Sharing

Liuqing Yang, University of Minnesota
Talk Title: Model-Enhanced Learning-based Detection (ME-LeaD) for Multi-User 1-bit mmWave

Zhiguo Ding, University of Manchester
Talk Title: Feature Extraction to Facilitate Applications of Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London
Talk Title: Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Modulation Classifiers

Shucheng Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Privacy and robustness of distribute learning based spectrum sharing

Omid Semiari, University of Colorado- Colorado Springs
Talk Title: Spectrum Management for AI-Enabled Industrial IoT Networks
Closing Remarks