I+ART: Industry-Academia Research Track

We live in exciting times, witnessing extremely rapid pace of growth of demanding applications such as networked robotics, industrial wireless networking, connected and intelligent devices, AR/VR/XR-based games and applications. Increasingly, it is the industry that is first confronted with the need to deliver the advances required in current technology, and the requirements for next generation technology. On the other hand, academia, with their years of study, teaching, and research are superbly positioned to explore and enable fundamental and generalized solutions to these problems, and thereby also drive their own research agendas. Successful R&D ecosystems around world have understood the importance of the academia-industry interface. It is with this in mind, I+ART will bring together top industry experts and researchers from academia to share their understanding of upcoming open problems and research driven solutions.

I+ART will be a full day track, comprising 12 invited talks of 30 minutes each, roughly half from academia and half from the industry. The talks will be carefully invited and curated, so that the track provides cutting edge technical material, and intense discussion.

The focus of this first I+ART, in COMSNETS, is on emerging research problems in wireless communication systems (e.g., Wi-Fi, 5G, and 6G cellular systems), systems based on wireless technologies (e.g., cyber physical systems over wireless networks, networked mobile robots, wireless-connected edge computing), and novel tools and techniques (such as AI-ML, and reinforcement learning).

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