BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230203T211117Z UID:35AFE93A-174F-490D-BDFF-30328879673D DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T113000 DESCRIPTION:Title: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Communications\, se nsing\, and their integration\n\nAbstract: The advent of the connected thi ngs paradigm within 5G wireless communications enabled various sophisticat ed applications\, whose evolution paves the way for the notion of the conn ected intelligence of everything in 6G networks. Recent speculations for t his upcoming new generation push the 5G performance indicators to unpreced ented levels\, envisioning THz frequency bands\, devices with embedded sen sing capabilities\, and native AI. All these are expected to become a real ity around 2030 and with a strong green footprint. In this talk\, we will elaborate around the emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Sur faces (RISs) which is provisioned as the enabler of smart wireless environ ments\, offering a highly scalable\, low-cost\, hardware-efficient\, and a lmost energy-neutral solution for the dynamic control of the propagation o f electromagnetic signals. We will discuss their evolution from programmab le reflecting metamaterials to connected computational- and power-autonomo us hybrid metasurfaces\, emphasizing on the state-of-the-art approaches fo r RIS-empowered communications\, localization\, and sensing.\n\nShort Biog raphy: George C. Alexandropoulos received the Engineering Diploma\, M.A.Sc .\, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the Sch ool of Engineering\, University of Patras\, Greece in 2003\, 2005\, and 20 10\, respectively. He has held research positions at various Greek univers ities and research institutes\, as well as at the Mathematical and Algorit hmic Sciences Lab\, Paris Research Center\, Huawei Technologies France\, a nd he is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Informati cs and Telecommunications\, School of Sciences\, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)\, Greece. He also serves as a Principal Resea rcher for the Technology Innovation Institute\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Em irates. His research interests span the general areas of algorithmic desig n and performance analysis for wireless networks with emphasis on multi-an tenna transceiver hardware architectures\, active and passive Reconfigurab le Intelligent Surfaces (RISs)\, integrated communications and sensing\, m illimeter wave and THz communications\, as well as distributed machine lea rning algorithms. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions o n Communications\, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters\, ELSEVIER Compute r Networks\, Frontiers in Communications and Networks\, and the ITU Journa l on Future and Evolving Technologies. In the past\, he has held various f ixed-term and guest editorial positions for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters\, as well as for various sp ecial issues at IEEE journals. Prof. Alexandropoulos is a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications\, Signal Processing\, and Information Theory Soci eties\, the vice-chair of the [EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking](https://eurasip.org/technica l-area-committees/)\, as well as a registered Professional Engineer of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the I EEE Communications Society. He has participated and/or technically managed more than 15 European Union (EU)\, international\, and Greek research\, i nnovation\, and development projects. He is currently NKUA's principal inv estigator for the EU H2020 RISE‑6G and the SNS JU TERRAMETA projects dea ling with RIS-empowered smart wireless environments and THz RISs\, respect ively. For the former project he also serves as the dissemination manager\ , whereas for the latter\, he also serves as the project’s technical man ager. Prof. Alexandropoulos has received the best Ph.D. thesis award 2010\ , the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Professional in Industry Awar d 2018\, the EURASIP Best Paper Award of the Journal on Wireless Communica tions and Networking 2021\, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2021\, and a Best Paper Award from the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021. More information is available at www.alexandropoulos.info.\n\nCo-sponsore d by: Tamseel Mahmood - syed.tamseel@ieee.org\n\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Alexandro poulos\, \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/333747 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/333747 ORGANIZER:bpage12@bellsouth.net SEQUENCE:11 SUMMARY:Algorithms & protocols joint coms\, localization\, sensing by Dr. G eorge Alexandropoulos URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/333747 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><div class="content-info">\n<div class="outer -wrapper">\n<p><strong><em><u>Title:</u></em></strong><strong><em> </em></ strong>Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Communications\, sensing\, and their integration</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Abstract:</u></e m></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>The advent of the connected things p aradigm within 5G wireless communications enabled various sophisticated ap plications\, whose evolution paves the way for the notion of the connected intelligence of everything in 6G networks. Recent speculations for this u pcoming new generation push the 5G performance indicators to unprecedented levels\, envisioning THz frequency bands\, devices with embedded sensing capabilities\, and native AI. All these are expected to become a reality a round 2030 and with a strong green footprint. In this talk\, we will elabo rate around the emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) which is provisioned as the enabler of smart wireless environments \, offering a highly scalable\, low-cost\, hardware-efficient\, and almost energy-neutral solution for the dynamic control of the propagation of ele ctromagnetic signals. We will discuss their evolution from programmable re flecting metamaterials to connected computational- and power-autonomous hy brid metasurfaces\, emphasizing on the state-of-the-art approaches for RIS -empowered communications\, localization\, and sensing.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p >\n<p><strong><em><u>Short Biography:</u></em></strong><strong> </strong>G eorge C. Alexandropoulos received the Engineering Diploma\, M.A.Sc.\, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the School of E ngineering\, University of Patras\, Greece in 2003\, 2005\, and 2010\, res pectively. He has held research positions at various Greek universities an d research institutes\, as well as at the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sci ences Lab\, Paris Research Center\, Huawei Technologies France\, and he is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Informatics and T elecommunications\, School of Sciences\, National and Kapodistrian Univers ity of Athens (NKUA)\, Greece. He also serves as a Principal Researcher fo r the Technology Innovation Institute\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates. His research interests span the general areas of algorithmic design and pe rformance analysis for wireless networks with emphasis on multi-antenna tr ansceiver hardware architectures\, active and passive Reconfigurable Intel ligent Surfaces (RISs)\, integrated communications and sensing\, millimete r wave and THz communications\, as well as distributed machine learning al gorithms. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Commun ications\, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters\, ELSEVIER Computer Networ ks\, Frontiers in Communications and Networks\, and the ITU Journal on Fut ure and Evolving Technologies. In the past\, he has held various fixed-ter m and guest editorial positions for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communic ations and IEEE Communications Letters\, as well as for various special is sues at IEEE journals. Prof. Alexandropoulos is a Senior Member of the IEE E Communications\, Signal Processing\, and Information Theory Societies\, the vice-chair of the <a href="https://eurasip.org/technical-area-committe es/">EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Communicati ons and Networking</a>\, as well as a registered Professional Engineer of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer of th e IEEE Communications Society. He has participated and/or technically mana ged more than 15 European Union (EU)\, international\, and Greek research\ , innovation\, and development projects. He is currently NKUA's principal investigator for the EU H2020 RISE‑6G and the SNS JU TERRAMETA projects dealing with RIS-empowered smart wireless environments and THz RISs\, resp ectively. For the former project he also serves as the dissemination manag er\, whereas for the latter\, he also serves as the project&rsquo\;s techn ical manager. Prof. Alexandropoulos has received the best Ph.D. thesis awa rd 2010\, the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Professional in Indus try Award 2018\, the EURASIP Best Paper Award of the Journal on Wireless C ommunications and Networking 2021\, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2021\, and a Best Paper Award from the IEEE GLOBEC OM 2021. More information is available at <a href="www.alexandropoulos.inf o">www.alexandropoulos.info</a>.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<mai n class="site-main site-main--with-sidebar site-main--" role="main">\n<div class="main-content main-content--with-sidebar">\n<div>\n<article class=" node node--type-person node--view-mode-full" role="article">\n<div class= "outer-wrapper">\n<figure class="figure"></figure>\n<div class="text-long" >&nbsp\;</div>\n<div class="field--with-label">\n<div class="field__conten t--with-label-inline">&nbsp\;</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n< /div>\n</main> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR