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SUMMARY:6G\, Metaverse\, and Generative AI: From Convergence to Emergence
DESCRIPTION:6G networks will bring forth a variety of novel enabling technologies such as integrated sensing and communications for perceptive mobile networks\, quantum-enabled wireless networks\, blockchainized mobile networks\, and AI-native networks with intelligence-endogenous capabilities. The push from more advanced technological tools becoming available as well as the pull from society’s needs imply that there must be several 6G paradigm shifts\, e.g.\, transition from 2D to global 3D connectivity\, services beyond communication\, and a cyber-physical continuum between the connected physical world of senses\, actions\, and experiences and its programmable digital representations. Importantly\, NSF’s view on Next G research is that Next G includes but is not limited to the specific key performance indicator requirements and topics of interest addressed by the different 6G standards development organizations. In fact\, according to the Next G Alliance roadmap\, there is a unique opportunity to address the interdependencies between technological and human evolution\, given that there is a symbiotic relationship between technology and a population’s societal and economic needs. As technology shapes human behavior and lifestyles\, those needs shape technological evolution. \nThis talk focuses on the fusion of digital and real worlds. We introduce the concept of the so-called Multiverse as an interesting attempt to help realize the fusion of digital and real worlds. The Multiverse offers eight different types of reality\, including but not limited to virtual and augmented reality. A term closely related to the Multiverse is the recently emerging Metaverse. The Metaverse might be viewed as the next step after the Internet\, similar to how the mobile Internet expanded and enhanced the early Internet in the 1990s and 2000s. The various adventures that this place has to offer will surround us both socially and visually. The Metaverse will put the user first\, allowing every member of our species to delve into new realms of possibilities. A modern\, digital renaissance is taking place on the grandest stage we have ever seen\, involving billions of connected brains. In the coming decades\, a new era of virtual life will bring in our next big milestone as a networked species. \nSome argue that we are in the middle of making a historic pivot from adapting nature to our species to adapting our species back to nature. This pivot requires a wholesale rethinking of our worldview\, shifting to a new scientific paradigm that views nature as a life source rather than resource and perceives the Earth as a complex self-organizing and self-evolving system. While we know less about the ocean floor than we know about the surface of the moon\, we know even less about the complex life that busies itself under our feet in the soil and cannot be seen with the naked eye. A handful of forest soil contains more life forms than there are people on the planet. The talk will end by providing an outlook on the convergence of digital evolution with biology\, as illustrated for the use case of Metaverse’s virtual society. We outline our ideas of the virtual society’s symbiosis of Inter(net) and (human) being in the future Metaverse\, giving rise to the powerful concept of Interbeing. We show that generative AI is instrumental in creating life-like digital organisms that produce clever solutions that AI researchers did not consider\, had thought impossible\, or even outwitting us humans. \n  \nBiography of the speaker: \nMartin Maier is a full professor with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)\, Montréal\, Canada. He was educated at the Technical University of Berlin\, Germany\, and received MSc and PhD degrees both with distinctions (summa cum laude) in 1998 and 2003\, respectively. He was a recipient of the two-year Deutsche Telekom doctoral scholarship from 1999 through 2001. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Southern California (USC)\, Los Angeles\, CA\, in 1998 and Arizona State University (ASU)\, Tempe\, AZ\, in 2001. In 2003\, he was a postdoc fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Cambridge\, MA. Before joining INRS\, Dr. Maier was a research associate at CTTC\, Barcelona\, Spain\, 2003 through 2005. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University\, Stanford\, CA\, 2006 through 2007. He was a co-recipient of the 2009 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. Further\, he was a Marie Curie IIF Fellow of the European Commission from 2014 through 2015. In 2017\, he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation in recognition of his accomplishments in research on FiWi-enhanced mobile networks. In 2017\, he was named one of the three most promising scientists in the category “Contribution to a better society” of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) 2017 Prize Award of the European Commission. In 2019/2020\, he held a UC3M-Banco de Santander Excellence Chair at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)\, Madrid\, Spain. \nAmong numerous other publications\, Martin Maier is co-author of the book “Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence” (Wiley-IEEE Press\, January 2021) and author of the recently published sequel “6G and Onward to Next G: The Road to the Multiverse” (Wiley-IEEE Press\, February 2023). The first book elaborates on the importance of convergence of upcoming technological trends and key enabling technologies (e.g.\, AI\, robots\, XR\, and blockchain) that lie at the heart of 6G and the possible end of the smartphone era. The book ends with an outlook on how future profound technologies will weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it and the boundary between virtual and physical worlds is to become increasingly imperceptible. Conversely\, the second book explores the emergence of a new regime that connects all humans and machines into a global matrix\, which some call the global mind or world brain\, leveraging on the collective intelligence of all humans combined with the collective behavior of all machines\, plus the intelligence of nature\, plus whatever behavior emerges from this whole. It focuses not only on the technologies but also points to the expected human transformation in the 6G era through unifying experiences across the physical\, digital\, and biological worlds delivered by non-traditional converged service platforms\, where developers do not hesitate to use technologies from as many disciplines as possible to pave the way for the coming Metaverse as the precursor of the future Multiverse. \n  \n  \nAll are welcome.
URL:https://ece.hku.hk/events/6g-metaverse-and-generative-ai-from-convergence-to-emergence/
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SUMMARY:Orthogonal Delay-Doppler Division Multiplexing (ODDM): A Novel Delay-Doppler Domain Multi-Carrier Waveform
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we will first review the model of linear time-varying (LTV) channels from the delay-Doppler (DD) domain\, and discuss the LTV channels’ DD domain impulse response. Next\, we revisit the fundamentals of multi-carrier (MC) modulation\, including the transmission strategy\, the pulse design principles and the implementation methods. Then\, we propose an impulse function based transmission strategy for LTV channels\, and design the corresponding general delay-Doppler multi-carrier (DDMC) modulation. By introducing the newly discovered delay-Doppler domain orthogonal pulse (DDOP)\, we present the DDOP-based orthogonal delay-Doppler division multiplexing (ODDM) modulation. We show perfect orthogonality property of the DDOP with respect to DD resolutions using its ambiguity function\, which infers that the proposed ODDM/DDMC waveform is suitable for future integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems. \nBiography of the speaker: \nHai Lin received the B.E. degree from Shanghai JiaoTong University\, China\, in 1993\, and the Dr. Eng. degree from Osaka Prefecture University\, Japan\, in 2005. In 2000\, he joined the Graduate School of Engineering\, Osaka Prefecture University (renamed Osaka Metropolitan University in 2022)\, where he is currently a Professor. Prof. Lin received the Best Paper Award from IEEE GLOBECOM 2018. He has served as technical program co-chair for symposium/track of international conferences\, including IEEE ICC 2011\, 2013\, IEEE GLOBECOM 2013\, 2020\, IEEE WCNC 2019\, 2021. He was the Chair of the Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Technical Committee\, IEEE Communications Society\, from 2015 to 2016. Currently\, he is the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Kansai Chapter. Prof. Lin was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and now is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. His current research interests include wireless communications and statistical signal processing. \nAll are welcome.
URL:https://ece.hku.hk/events/orthogonal-delay-doppler-division-multiplexing-oddm-a-novel-delay-doppler-domain-multi-carrier-waveform/
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Seminar :Advancements and Opportunities in Next-Generation MIMO Wireless Communication
DESCRIPTION:MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) wireless communication has been an instrumental technology in fourth and fifth generation cellular communication systems. With more aggressive performance targets\, the evolution of MIMO is essential to support more antennas\,  accommodate larger bandwidths and exploit higher carrier frequencies.  In this talk\, I will describe three areas of opportunity for the next generation of MIMO wireless communications. First\, I will discuss the need for new antenna array designs to realize large apertures. Second\, I will cover methods for modeling and analyzing these arrays. Finally\, I will make the case for data-driven algorithms  to adaptively configure these new MIMO systems. Throughout the presentation\, I will emphasize the importance of revisiting classical models and assumptions. \nBiography of the speaker: \nRobert W. Heath Jr. is the Lampe Distinguished Professor in the Department of ECE at North Carolina State University.  He is the recipient or co-recipient of several awards including  the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award\, the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award\, the 2020 North Carolina State University Innovator of the Year Award\, the 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award\,  the 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James Evans Avant Garde Award\, and the 2022 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award. He authored  “Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication” (Prentice Hall in 2017) and “Digital Wireless Communication: Physical Layer Exploration Lab Using the NI USRP” (National Technology and Science Press in 2012). He co-authored “Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications” (Prentice Hall in 2014) and “Foundations of MIMO Communications” (Cambridge 2019). He is a licensed Amateur Radio Operator\, a registered Professional Engineer in Texas\, a Private Pilot\,  a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors\, and a Fellow of the IEEE. \nAll are welcome.
URL:https://ece.hku.hk/events/distinguished-seminar-advancements-and-opportunities-in-next-generation-mimo-wireless-communication/
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SUMMARY:Publishing in Wiley Materials Science Journals
DESCRIPTION:A highly competitive research environment with increasingly limited research funding has created a “Publish or Perish” attitude among scientists who are judged on the quantity rather than quality of their research articles. This presentation provides a brief overview of current trends and challenges in scientific publishing\, some ethical considerations\, how publishers and authors interact and influence each other\, and how the publishing arena is being transformed. Tips will be presented on how to select an appropriate journal for your paper\, what aspects of preparation and presentation to focus on from an editor’s and referee’s perspective\, and hints for increasing the discoverability of your paper after publication. \nBiography of the speaker:\nGuanchen Xu joined Wiley in September 2011 as an Assistant Editor from the Beijing University of Technology\, where he obtained his PhD (Materials Science) and then served as Assistant Professor for one year. He has been working as the Deputy Editor for Small and Advanced Energy Materials and has also contributed to the rapid growth and success of other journals in the materials science in-house editorial portfolio\, such as Advanced Science. In early 2017\, he\, acting as the acting Editor-in-Chief\, successfully launched the first sister journal of Small – Small Methods. Besides of his editorial role\, he provides leadership and management for the editorial teams of Physical Sciences in China. \nAll are welcome.
URL:https://ece.hku.hk/events/publishing-in-wiley-materials-science-journals/
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