IEEE Global Communications Conference
7–11 December 2021 // Madrid, Spain // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference
Connecting Cultures around the Globe

Technical Program Committee

TPC Chair

Sennur Ulukus
University of Maryland, USA

TPC Co-Chair

Rui Dinis
Instituto de Telecomunicações, FCT, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal

TPC Co-Chair

Santiago Mazuelas Franco
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Spain

Spotlight Talks Chair

Alan Gatherer
Cirrus360

Keynotes Chair

Abbas Jamalipour
The University of Sydney, Australia

Workshop Co-Chair

Mohsen Guizani
Qatar University, Qatar

Workshop Co-Chair

Guangjie Han
Hohai University, China

Tutorial Co-Chair

Octavia A. Dobre
Memorial University, Canada

Tutorial Co-Chair

Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute-Alsace, France

Publication Co-Chair

Baek-Young Choi
University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA

Publication Co-Chair

Mutlu Koca
Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Student Travel Grant Co-Chair

R.R. Venkatesha Prasad
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Student Travel Grant Co-Chair

Besma Smida
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Award Committee Chair

Michael Rice
Brigham Young University, USA

SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks

Daniel Benevides da Costa
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Sangarapillai Lambotharan
Loughborough University, UK

Communication and Information System Security

Francesco Chiti
University of Florence, Italy

Chunxiao Jiang
Tsinghua University, China

Abbas Bradai
University of Poitiers, France

Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling

Ramon Agüero
University of Cantabria, Spain

Nizar Zorba
Qatar University, Qatar

Frank Li
University of Agder, Norway

Communication Software and Multimedia

Hassine Moungla
Universty of Paris Descartes, France

Michele Nogueira
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Shaoen Wu
Ball State University, USA

Communication Theory

Syed A. Jafar
University of California Irvine, USA

Xu (Judy) Zhu
The University of Liverpool, UK

Sofie Pollin
KULeuven, Belgium

Green Communication Systems and Networks

R.R. Venkatesha Prasad
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Kun Wang
UCLA, USA

IoT and Sensor Networks

Baoxian Zhang
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Hyunbum Kim
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA

Georgios Papadopoulos
IMT Atlantique, France

Antonio Skarmeta
University of Murcia, Spain

Mobile & Wireless Networks

Valeria Loscri, INRIA, France
Valeria Loscri, INRIA, France

Khoukhi Lyes
ENSICAEN, Normandie University, France

Rui Wang
Tongji University, China

Shuai Han
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Next-Generation Networking and Internet

Alessio Giorgetti
National Research Council of Italy, Italy

Ilhem Fajjari
Orange Labs, France

Zuqing Zhu
University of Science and Technology of China, China

Optical Networks & Systems

Mauro Biagi
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy

Jaafar Elmirghani
University of Leeds, UK

Signal Processing for Communications

Chenhao Qi
Southeast University, China

Zhijin Qin
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Cenk Gursoy
Syracuse University, USA

Wireless Communications

Abla Kammoun
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Andrea Giorgetti
University of Bologna, Italy

Koji Yamamoto
Kyoto University, Japan

Stefano Tomasin
University of Padova, Italy

Cong Shen
University of Virginia, USA

SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS

Aerial Communications

Yong Zeng
Southeast University, China

Big Data

Ruidong Li
Kanazawa University, Japan

Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage

Dania Marabissi
University of Florence, Italy

Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage

Yongjune Kim
Western Digital, USA

E-Health

Igor Bisio
University of Genoa, Italy

Full-Duplex Communications

Dirk Slock
EURECOM, France

Machine Learning for Communications

Elisabeth de Carvalho
Aalborg University, Denmark

Machine Learning for Communications

Kamel Tourki
Paris Research Center, Huawei, France

Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications

Werner Haselmayr
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Quantum Communications & Computing

Michael Ng
University of Southampton, UK

Satellite and Space Communications

Min Lin
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Smart Grid Communications

Ruilong Deng
Zhejiang University, China

Social Networks

De-Nian Yang
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Patrons