Pedram Johari
speaker
Pedram Johari is a Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University (Boston, MA) under the direction of Prof. Tommaso Melodia. Pedram has received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Josep M. Jornet. He has served as the CTO of an IoT-tech startup in New York during 2018 and 2019. Pedram has also served as an Adjunct Instructor (and later as a Research Assistant Professor – by courtesy appointment) at the University at Buffalo in 2018 and 2019.
Salvatore D'Oro
speaker
Salvatore D’Oro joined Northeastern University (Boston, MA) in 2017 where now he is a research assistant professor with the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (W-IoT). He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering and the M.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering degree both from the University of Catania (Catania, Italy) in 2011 and 2012, respectively. He received the PhD degree from the University of Catania in 2015, where, in 2016 worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Sergio Palazzo. In 2013 and 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher at Université Paris-Sud 11 (Paris, France) and at Ohio State University (Ohio, USA). He serves in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of several international journals and conferences such as Elsevier Computer Communications and IEEE INFOCOM. His research interests focus on network slicing and virtualization techniques for 5G systems and beyond, physical layer security, artificial intelligence and machine learining for networking applications.
Michele Polese
speaker
Michele Polese is a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, Northeastern University, Boston, since October 2023. He received his Ph.D. at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova in 2020. He then joined Northeastern University as a research scientist and part-time lecturer in 2020. During his Ph.D., he visited New York University (NYU), AT&T Labs in Bedminster, NJ, and Northeastern University. His research interests are in the analysis and development of protocols and architectures for future generations of cellular networks (5G and beyond), in particular for millimeter-wave and terahertz networks, spectrum sharing and passive/active user coexistence, open RAN development, and the performance evaluation of end-to-end, complex networks. He has contributed to O-RAN technical specifications and submitted responses to multiple FCC and NTIA notice of inquiry and requests for comments, and is a member of the Committee on Radio Frequency Allocations of the American Meteorological Society (2022-2024). He is PI and co-PI in research projects on 6G funded by the NTIA, the O-RAN ALLIANCE, U.S. NSF, OUSD, and MassTech Collaborative, and was awarded with several best paper awards and the 2022 Mario Gerla Award for Research in Computer Science. Michele is serving as TPC co-chair for WNS3 2021-2022, as an Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, as a Guest Editor in an IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Open RAN, and has organized the Open 5G Forum in Fall 2021 and the NextGenRAN workshop at Globecom 2022.
Matt Caesar
organizer
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UIUC. I am also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an Affiliate Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences, and a member of the Information Trust Institute. I am also Chief Science Officer of Veriflow and I serve as the Director of Education for ACM SIGCOMM. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
My research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of networked and distributed systems, with an emphasis on network virtualization, routing, network algorithms, systems security, and cloud services. I like taking a multi-pronged approach to system design, building systems that work well in practice but are grounded in strong theoretical principles. My recent work involves network security, network verification, and Internet of Things.