IEEE ICC 25 TwinNetApp Workshop

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Berk Canberk is a Professor within the School of Computing, Engineering and The Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University-UK, where he leads interdisciplinary research and initiatives in AI-enabled Digital Twins, IoT Communication, and Smart Wireless Networks. He’s been an Adjunct Faculty within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University USA since 2017, and Affiliated Professor within the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) since 2022. He is also the Innovation Director of BTS Group, the biggest network automation and cloud computing company in Turkey. He is a distinguished recipient of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering’s Global Talent Endorsement in 2022. He is an IEEE Senior Member, and he acts as an active Associate Editor at several world-leading academic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2016, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal since 2013, Elsevier Communication Networks Journal since 2017, and IEEE Communications Letters between 2018-2021. He’s actively involved in several conferences as TPC chair and Organizing Committee Member. In his research group named Broadband Communication and Network Automation Research Group (BCRG, www.bcrg.uk), he leads the research activities in highly interdisciplinary fields in digital twins and IoT, actively supervising 5 PhD and 2 MSc students. So far, he has supervised 16 MSc students, and 6 PhD students who are now all tenure-track professors. In the last 5 years, he has published over 100 journal papers, 2 books, 7 book chapters, 3 approved US patents and 12 patents waiting for approval. Prof. Canberk has been a Post-Doctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology USA between 2011-2013. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Turkey in 2011, his MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology Sweden in 2005, and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from ITU in 2003. He was an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Engineering at ITU between 2016-2021, and full Professor between 2021-2022. He has been involved with several industrial research activities with leading technology companies all over the world, including research scholarship program funding with Google Deepmind, TUBITAK, BTS Group Turkey, Turkcell, Turkish Telekom, and Uniper Energy Germany. He is the recipient of the IEEE ICC Best Paper Award (2024), IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award (2018), IEEE Turkey Research Incentive Award (2018), The British Council (UK) Researcher Link Award (2017), IEEE CAMAD Best Paper Award (2016), Royal Society International Exchanges (UK) (2021), Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) NEWTON Research Collaboration Award (2015) and Turkish Telecom Collaborative Research Award (2013). 

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Octavia Dobre is a Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 with Memorial University, Canada. She was a Visiting Professor with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France. Her research interests encompass wireless communication and networking technologies, as well as optical and underwater communications. She has (co-)authored over 500 refereed papers in these areas. Dr. Dobre serves as the VP Publications of the IEEE Communications Society. She was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society and the EiC of the IEEE Communications Letters. Dr. Dobre was a Fulbright Scholar, Royal Society Scholar, and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. She obtained Best Paper Awards at various conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE PIMRC. Dr. Dobre is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

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Marco Di Renzo received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) at Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. Also, he is an elected member of the L2S Board Council and a member of the L2S Management Committee, and is a Member of the Admission and Evaluation Committee of the Ph.D. School on Information and Communication Technologies, Paris-Saclay University. He is a Founding Member and the Academic Vice Chair of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), where he served as the Rapporteur for the work item on communication models, channel models, and evaluation methodologies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, EURASIP, and AAIA; an Academician of AIIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea; an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation; and a Highly Cited Researcher. Also, he holds the 2023 FranceNokia Chair of Excellence in ICT at University of Oulu (Finland), he holds the Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and he was a Fulbright Fellow at City University of New York (USA), a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor with Aalto University, Finland; and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow with Queen’s University Belfast, U.K. His recent research awards include the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE COMSOC Outstanding Paper Award, the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the 2023 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Heinrich Hertz Award, the 2023 IEEE VTS James Evans Avant Garde Award, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Technical Recognition Award from the Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee, the 2024 IEEE COMSOC Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2024 Best Tutorial Paper Award, and the 2024 IEEE COMSOC Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters during the period 2019-2023, and he is now serving on the Advisory Board. He is currently serving as a Voting Member of the Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee and as the Director of Journals of the IEEE Communications Society. s, including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE PIMRC. Dr. Dobre is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.