| Invited Talk

Name of the Speaker: Prof. Arumugam Nallanathan
Name of the Organizer: Prof. Srikrishna Bhashyam
Venue: ESB-244 (Seminar Hall)
Date/Time: 14th November 2024 (Thursday), 2:30 PM
Title: Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) at Mobile Edge

Abstract :

The emergence of the metaverse and digital twin technologies necessitates addressing key challenges in mapping the large-scale physical world to virtual domains. Integrated sensing and communication techniques, particularly wireless communications and radar sensing in millimetre-wave bands, will play a crucial role in achieving this goal and will be a significant enabling technology for 6G networks. The newly introduced sensing function at the mobile edge presents two main challenges: merging sensing information with existing sensors and ensuring efficient data transmission. As different sensors have different data modalities, this talk will first discuss the recognition under multi-modal dataset. With the help of Variational Autoencoders, data from different modalities are mapped into a latent variable space with the same prior distribution. As a representation of the original data, the latent variables contain higher-level semantic information, thereby simplifying the recognition task. Then, novel federated learning algorithms to ensure the data privacy at mobile edge and reduce the communication traffic will be presented.

Speaker Bio:

Arumugam Nallanathan is Professor of Wireless Communications and the founding head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London since September 2017. He was with the Department of Informatics at King’s College London from December 2007 to August 2017, where he was Professor of Wireless Communications from April 2013 to August 2017. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from August 2000 to December 2007. His research interests include 6G Wireless Networks and Internet of Things (IoT). He published more than 700 technical papers in scientific journals and international conferences. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC’2016), IEEE Global Communications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM’2017) and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2017 (VTC’2017). He is a co-recipient of IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize, 2022.

He was an Editor-at-Large for IEEE Transactions on Communications, Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, a senior editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). He served as the Chair for the Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC-TC) of IEEE Communications Society and Technical Program Chair and member of Technical Program Committees in numerous IEEE conferences. He received the IEEE Communications Society SPCE outstanding service award 2012 and IEEE Communications Society RCC outstanding service award 2014. He has been selected as a Web of Science (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher in 2016, 2022 and 2023. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.