Type of Activity: Technical
Description:
IEEE Comsoc Lahore Chapter organized 3rd IEEE Comsoc Summer School 2018 in Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, LUMS Lahore from 07-10 August 2018 with the joint collaboration of IEEE LUMS students branch and KICS-UET Lahore. The theme of the Summer School was Intelligent Communication Networks. This year IEEE Comsoc Summer School 2018 witnessed 10 speakers including 04 from abroad and 06 from national universities. International speakers were from University of Leeds UK, NEC Labs Europe Germany, University of Oklahoma USA and Vodafone UK whereas national speakers were from LUMS Lahore, UET Lahore and ITU Lahore respectively.
Featured speakers and topics of the talk were Dr. Syed Ali Zaidi (emerging technologies for intelligent communication network design and deployment), Dr. Momin Uppal (OFDM: the theory of practice), Dr. Ali Ahmad (blind deconvolution using deep generative priors), Dr. Zarrar Yousaf (NFV and SDN – key technology enablers for 5G networks), Dr. Muhammad Tahir (cross-roads between machine learning, signal processing, and communications), Dr. Ali Imran (leveraging AI for designing lean, elastic, agile and proactive (LEAP) wireless networks of the future: case studies, challenges and opportunities), Dr. Junaid Qadir (on analyzing self-driving networks: A systems thinking approach), Dr. Usman Javed (internet of things – a digitally connected society), Dr. Mahboob Ur Rahman (towards intelligent receiver design for nano-scale communication systems operating in the terahertz band) and Dr. Ubaid Ullah Fayyaz (factor graphs in channel coding).One technical tour to Punjab Safe City Authority was also arranged. A thesis competition was also arranged with the title of ‘5 Minutes Thesis Madness’ on last day of the Summer School.
Impact of Event on Community:
It attracted a diverse audience of communication technologies students, researchers and practitioners from academia, industry.
