Tamer ElBatt of The American University in Cairo

In this talk, we review a sample vision for the future of communications and networking beyond 2030. We envision that the futue of communications is driven by a number of challenges and opportunities. First, given the status quo of 5G depoyments around the world, undergroing 6G extensive research and the growing role for AI, spectrum scarcity presents a major challenge, for future networks, often coined as the“spectrum crisis”looming in different parts of the world, especially leading economies.

On the opportunities side, there are a few emerging technologies that hold a great promise. First, digital quantum transformation is currently undergoing extensive research to address the scalability challenges, among others. Second, wireless communications and networking beyond 2030 is envisioned to be Aritificial General Intelligence (AGI)-native. This, in turn, will allow networks to perceive, learn, reason and adapt in real-time. Finally, immersive technolgies, e.g., virtual, mixed and augmeneted relaity (VR, MR, AR, xR) are envisioned to be a key enabler for future AI-enhanced user interfaces and collaborative communication of user devices with the network.

Biography:

Tamer ElBatt (Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)) is a Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Dept., The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in EECE from Cairo University, Egypt, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in ECE from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 2000. From 2000 to 2009 he was with major U.S. industry R&D, e.g., HRL Labs, Malibu, USA and Lockheed Martin ATC, Palo Alto, USA, at various positions. From 2009 to 2017, he served at the EECE Dept., Cairo University, as an Assistant Professor and later as an Associate and Full Professor. He also held a joint appointment with Nile University, Egypt from 2009 to 2017 and served as the Director of the Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC) from 2012 to 2017. In July 2017, he joined the CSE Dept. at the American University in Cairo as an Associate Professor, where he is currently a Professor. He served as the CSE Director of the Graduate Program and later as the Associate Chair, from 2019 to 2022. His research interests lie in the broad areas of modeling, performance analysis, design and optimization of wireless networks, mobile computing and IoT systems.He served as the IEEE Egypt Section Vice Chairman (2020-2023).Dr. ElBatt is a ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, the recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award in 2011, 2012 Cairo University Incentive Award in Engineering, 2015 State Incentive Award in Engineering and the 2025 AUC Faculty Merit Award for Excellence in Research.

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