SCHEDULE OF KEYNOTE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONSMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 201908:00-08:45 Breakfast & Registration
08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks and Welcome Messages
09:00-09:20 Optical Stealth Communication based on Amplified Spontaneous Emission Noise
Ben Wu, Assistant Professor
Rowan University
09:20-09:40 Toward Cyber-Physical/Human Systems that are Responsive and Scalable
Jing Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology
09:40-10:00 Deep Graph Learning: Techniques and Applications
Haifeng Chen, Head of Data Science and Systems Research Department
NEC Labs America
10:00-10:20 Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints
Bo Ji, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information SciencesTemple University
09:00– 10:20 Technical Program I – Applications
10:20-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Keynote Presentation
Data for Good: Data Science at Columbia
Jeannette M. Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor ofComputer Science
Columbia University
11:00-11:20 Achieving Low Latency Mobile Edge Cloud Services in Next-Generation Wireless Networks
Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering andDirector, WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Lab)
Rutgers University

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11:20-11:40 Programming tomorrow’s 5G networks today – the anatomy of a flexible RAN Intelligent
Controller (RIC) and its applications
Rittwik Jana
Director of Inventive Science
AT&T Labs Research
11:40-12:00 Optimizing Service Delivery at the Mobile Network Edge
Leandros Tassiulas
John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering
Yale University
12:00-1:00 Lunch & Networking
Lunch Talk: What did he have in Mind? David Sarnoff's Visions for Wireless Communications
Alexander B. Magoun, Outreach Historian - IEEE History Center
Stevens Institute of Technology
1:00-1:30 Keynote Presentation
New value creation with the Future X NetworkPeter Vetter
Head of Access Research lab
Nokia Bell Labs
1:30-1:50 Network Orchestration for 5G
Raquel Morera, Associate Fellow
Verizon
1:50-2:10 Next Generation Automation: Enabling the acceleration of Advanced Technology Adoption
Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Chief Technology Officer of Blue Planet
Ciena
2:10-2:30 Challenges and New Technologies for 5G Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems
Sundeep Rangan, Associate Director
NYU WirelessSCHEDULE OF KEYNOTE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2:30-2:50 Reconfigurable Distributed MIMO for Physical-layer Security in Mobile Networks
Zygmunt J. Haas, Professor and Distinguished Chair in Computer Science
University of Texas, Dallas
2:50-3:10 Leveraging Quantum Annealing for Large MIMO Processing in Centralized Radio AccessNetworks, Kyle Jamieson, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer SciencePrinceton University
3:10-3:30 Eliminate Operational Legacy. Forever.
Sasha Ratkovic, Co-founder and CTO
Apstra3:30-3:40 Coffee Break
3:40-4:00 Chameleon: A Scientific Instrument for Computer Science and Networking Research at Scale
Paul Ruth, Senior Research Scientist at RENCI
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
4:00-4:20 Time-series workloads are different, and implications for a time-series database
Michael J. Freedman
Professor, Computer Science Department & Co-founder and CTO of Timescale
Princeton University
4:20-4:40 Integrated Access and Backhaul in 5G – Challenges and Opportunities
Navid Abedini, Senior Staff Systems Engineer
Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
4:40-5:00 5G Virtual RAN Network Architectures – the Realities
Olufemi (Femi) Adeyemi, Lead LTE Solutions Architect
Fujitsu Network Communications
3:40-5:00 Technical Program II – Resource Allocation
5:00-5:20 Edge-supported Drones in the Construction Industry
Padmanabhan Pillai, Senior Research Engineer, Science & Technology Center Cloud ComputingIntel LabsSCHEDULE OF KEYNOTE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONSTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 201908:00-09:00 Breakfast & Registration
09:00-09:20 Building Fast and Reliable Services for 5G Networks with Derecho
Edward Tremel, Department of Computer ScienceCornell University
09:20-09:40 A Closer Look at NFV Execution Models in Multi-Core Commodity Servers
Zhi-Li Zhang, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
09:40-10:00 IEEE Future Networks Initiative Enabling 5G and Beyond
Ashutosh Dutta, Senior Wireless Research Scientist & Co-Chair, IEEE Future Networks
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs
10:00-10:20 AERPAW: Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced WirelessRudra Dutta, Professor, Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
09:00– 10:20 Technical Program III – Wireless Networks
10:20-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Keynote Presentation
5G and the Role of AI
Jennifer Yates, Assistant Vice President, Inventive Science
AT&T Labs
11:00-11:20 Mobile Transport for 5G RAN
Rajesh Chundury, Principal Solutions ManagerEricsson
11:20-11:40 Driving Community Engagement as Part of Open Innovation
Nithya A. Ruff, Head of Open Source Practice
ComcastSCHEDULE OF KEYNOTE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
11:40-12:00 Evolution of Cyber-Physical Security
Jonathan M. Smith, Professor of Computer and Information Science & Olga andAlberico Pompa Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
DARPA & University of Pennsylvania
12:00-1:00 Lunch & Networking
Lunch Talk: The Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened
Paul Wesling, Life Fellow of the IEEE
1:00-1:30 Keynote Presentation
Practical Steps Towards Self-Driving Networks
Kireeti Kompella, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Juniper Networks
1:30-1:50 Software Defined Cable Access Network
Nagesh Nandiraju, Executive Director of Network Services and Software
Comcast1:50-2:10 Key Enablers and Obstacles to a successful 5G deployment
Mark T. Watts, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Architect
Verizon Communications
2:10-2:30 5G: Millimeter waves, millisecond delays?
Shivendra S. Panwar, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Tandon School of Engineering (Polytechnic Institute)
New York University
2:30-2:50 Federated Learning for Networking
Anwar Walid, Director of Network Intelligence and Distributed Systems Research
Nokia Bell Labs
2:50-3:10 Network Slicing with ONAP LCM
Cagatay Buyukkoc, Lead ORAN and Access Evolution Architect
AT&TSCHEDULE OF KEYNOTE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
3:10-3:30 Challenges and Opportunities of opening the RAN interfaces
Haseeb Akhtar, Principal Solutions ConsultantEricsson
3:30-3:40 Coffee Break
3:40-4:00 5G Edge Cloud Infrastructure
Steve Vandris, Director for NFV Solutions Planning, Datacenter Solutions GroupIntel Corporation
3:40-5:00 Technical Program IV – Security & Automation
5:00- 5:15 Closing Remarks