Events

5G HUB SEMINAR: MILENKO TOSIC (VIZLORE)

Date: Thursday, 02nd March 2023
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Milenko Tosic
Director for Innovation and Research Projects
VizLore Foundation
https://vizlore.com/

Title: Uspon i pad novosadskog tech startup-a (The rise and the fall of Novi Sad’s tech startup )

Abstract: Milenko ce prezentovati na temu tehnologija i spin-offova koje su razvijali u okvizu VizLore grupe, o mom startup-u i o jednom startupu koji je “izgoreo” u svom zaletu.

Biography: Milenko Tošić je direktor za inovacije i istraživačke projekte u fondaciji VizLore Labs kao i osnivač više tech startup-a. Bavi se istraživanjen i razvojem u domenu primene veštačke inteligencije, Interneta stvari i blokčejn tehnologija u raznim sektorima privrede. Milenko je doktorand na Departmanu za energetiku, elektroniku i telekomunikacije.

ICONIC CENTRE and MARACAS INRIA TEAM – JOINT WORKSHOP

Novi Sad, 17th November 2022, NTP Building L01

Joint workshop of ICONIC-CENTRE and members of INRIA Maracas Team Lyon is jointly organised by H2020-INCOMING and Serbian-French “Pavle Savic” Bilateral Project MITRA (Massive IoT Random Access). The workshop focus was on massive IoT, from fundamentals to technologies, but we also heard great talks on hardware-accelerated machine learning and memristive-based spiking neural networks.

Special thanks to Milan Erdelj for presenting Easy Aerial Inc. and our future collaboration on MetaSky project.

The full list of workshop presentations is provided on this link.

5G IT HUB SEMINAR: Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA Lyon)

Date: Thursday, 17th November 2022
Time: 14:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Jean-Marie Gorce
Professor, INSA, Université de Lyon,
the Head for Science with INRIA Lyon,
Scientific coordinator for the Experimental Facility FIT-CorteXlab
https://team.inria.fr/maracas/team-members/jean-marie-gorce/

Title: Known limits, achievability and trends for M2M:
Towards massive, reliable and real-time communications

Abstract: In the ‘beyond 5G’ roadmap, the place taken by machine type communications (M2M) is constantly increasing, strengthening the mutation of the wireless access paradigm. Indeed critical KPIs for M2M communications are focused on reliability, latency (URLLC) and massive access. The latter is required to absorb the exponential increase of connected things, with in some cases strong reliability-latency requirements. From a general perspective, and under fixed resources and massive access, the reliability-latency duality is becoming more and more central. In this talk we review the key questions and we describe few of our recent contributions, allowing to determine fundamental limits with respect to these 3 KPIs. Our approaches exploit information theory, recent coding, decoding and decision strategies. The presentation will span recent results of the Maracas (Inria-Insa) research group,  from theoretical, algorithmic and experimental complementary perspectives.

Biography: Jean-Marie Gorce (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Lyon, France, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He was a Co-Founder of the Centre for Innovation, Telecommunications and Integration of Services (CITI Lab), in 2001. He was a Visiting Scholar with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, from 2013 to 2014. He has been the Principal Investigator of several French and European sponsored projects related to wireless networks. He is currently the Scientific Coordinator for the Experimental Facility FIT-CorteXlab. He is also a Professor with INSA, Université de Lyon and the Head for Science with INRIA Lyon. He has co-published more than 150 conference and journal articles. His research interests include wireless networking and communication theory, focusing on realistic modeling, wireless system optimization, and performance assessment considering both infrastructure-based and ad-hoc networks.

H2020 INCISIVE WORKSHOP: Health DATA SHARING AND AI IN CANCER IMAGING

November 17th and 18th, 2022, Hotel Nobel, Belgrade, Serbia

Our team involved in the H2020 RIA INCISIVE project invites professionals and researchers in the field of oncology and Artificial Intelligence to the event ‘Health data sharing and AI in cancer imaging – empowering AI-driven solutions for cancer diagnosis, treatment and follow-up’, that will take place in the Hotel Nobel, Belgrade, on November 17-18th. Attendants will have the chance to deepen their knowledge in this field and discover the latest advances of the INCISIVE project and other European-related initiatives clustered under the umbrella of the Artificial Intelligence for Health Imaging projects (AI4HI). Participation to the event is free (see registration link in the comment of this post). It is a unique opportunity to get in touch with professionals performing cutting-edge research in the field of AI for health imaging within the INCISIVE project and similar initiatives in Europe.

More information and workshop agenda available on this link.

5G LENA SIMULATOR TRAINING (CTTC)

Excellent 2-day training on 5G LENA simulator and its extensions to 5G NR V2X presented by Sandra Lagén and Biljana Bojovic to PhD and MSc students and staff members of ICONIC centre. Great atmosphere, great lectures and active interactions across the whole event.

5g IT HUB seminar: sandra lagen and Biljana Bojovic (CTTC)

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, 08th and 09th November 2022
Time: 09:30h – 12:30h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Sandra Lagen and Biljana Bojovic
Senior Researcher (Head of Unit) and Researcher,
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
https://www.cttc.cat/

Title: 5G LENA System Level Simulator and Extensions for 5G NR V2X

Sandra Lagen

Sandra Lagén is currently a Senior Researcher and Head of the Open Simulations (OpenSim) research unit at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain. She holds a Telecommunications Engineering degree (2011), Master’s degree (2013), and the Ph.D. degree (2016) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. During her PhD, she contributed to 3GPP standardization; being UPC the first university world-wide contributing to 3GPP LTE-A. In CTTC, she has participated in outstanding collaborations with the industry, including InterDigital, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Huawei-Sweden, and Meta-Facebook. Also, she has defined the OpenSim research unit strategy and research lines, contributing to the definition of CTTC’s strategic plan, contributed as an expert to the definition of the “Pla d’Impuls 6G” from la Generalitat de Catalunya which determines the guidelines and activities for the development of 6G, participated in various European/national research projects, and supervised MS/PhD students and Google summer of code projects. The major singularity of the OpenSim research unit that she leads is the involvement with ns-3, an open-source end-to-end network simulator, and particularly the design, development, and maintenance of the 5G-LENA module, for simulation of 5G NR networks. Since 2021, she represents CTTC in the executive board/consortium of ns-3. Her PhD thesis has received recognition awards by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (COIT) (2017) and the UPC (2019). Also, she is co-author of two best paper awards, by IEEE WCNC (2018) and WNS3 (2020), and she is co-inventor in two non-provisional patent applications granted and three provisional applications.

Biljana Bojovic

Biljana Bojović received her MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia in 2008, and her PhD degree in Networking Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain in 2022. She is the developer and maintainer of the LTE, NR, and NR-U modules of the ns-3 network simulator, and the principal author of LAA and LTE-U modules. She held LTE and NR module tutorials at the ns-3 workshops in 2016 and 2022, and at CONFTELE in 2021. She was a mentor of ns-3 GSoC on several occasions. In 2020 she received ACM SIGCOMM Networking System Award. She worked on many research projects for industrial clients, such as Wi-Fi Alliance, SpiderCloud, Interdigital, the US Department of Defense, NIST, Meta, etc. She is a co-author of one patent application (US20200314906A1). Her current research interests include XR traffic enhancements for 5G-Advanced, MIMO simulation models for ns-3, and unlicensed/shared spectrum.

5G IT Hub SEMINAR: Nino Adzibaba and Milan Erdelj (Easy Aerial)

Date: Tuesday, 06th June 2022
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Ninoslav Adzibaba and Milan Erdelj
Chief Software Architect and Director of Communication Technologies,
Easy Aerial, Belgrade
https://www.easyaerial.com/

Title: Easy Aerial – Experiences from a drone startup

Ninoslav Adzibaba

Chief Software Architect and Regional Manager @ Easy Aerial Inc

Passionate about immersive technologies, virtual and augmented reality, Nino inspires and leads Easy Aerial, pushing the limits of what is considered to be possible. His previous success stories include the co-founding of VR Habitat and closely working and learning from clients such as US DoD, IBM, NCR, Boeing Business Jets, Ralph Lauren Home, Mercedes F1, BBC.

Milan Erdelj, PhD

Director of Communication Technologies @ Easy Aerial Inc

By merging together extensive academic and industrial experiences from INRIA, UTC Sorbonne Universités, Scalian and Docotel, Milan and his team integrate the state of the art data transmission and analytics technologies onto the Easy Aerial autonomous UAV systems, making the EA systems go above and beyond the competition.

5G IT HUB SEMINAR: BRANKO RISTIC (RMIT)

Date: Tuesday, 31st May 2022
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Branko Ristić
Principal Research Fellow, School of Engineering,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/r/ristic-dr-branko

Title: Recent research activities in target tracking and machine reasoning by Branko Ristic and his group at RMIT University

Abstract: The talk will briefly review four research activities: (1) Detection and tracking of small objects on the sea surface using an airborne scanning radar; (2) Development of target tracking algorithms using possibility theory (instead of probability theory); (3) The search for intelligent reactive underwater targets using the game theory; (4) Development of a valuation network for reasoning under uncertainty in the framework of imprecise probability theory.

Branko Ristic was educated in Serbia (FTN, Novi Sad and ETF, Belgrade University) and Australia (PhD, 1995). Since 2015 he is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Engineering of RMIT University.
Before that he spent almost 20 years in Defence Science and Technology (Australia). He published over 100 journal articles and two books. His research interests include statistical signal processing and artificial
intelligence.

5G IT HUB Seminar: Nenad Siroki & Aleksandar Pantovic (PANOS)

Date: Tuesday, 12th April 2022
Time: 14:30h CET
Location: NTP-001 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Full video lecture will be available soon!

Nenad Široki
CTO, PANOS

Aleksandar Pantović
Director of Software Development, PANOS

Implementation of In-building Cellular Systems and
Everyday Challenges of Telecommunication Engineers

Abstract:
This talk will give an overview of how industry of wireless telecommunications has developed in past 30 years and how work description of telecommunications engineer needed to adopt to follow latest trends in the industry. Furthermore, talk will address current trends in the industry of wireless telecommunications and will focus on in-building cellular systems. It will be explained what are active DAS systems and what are the biggest challenges for telecommunications engineers that work on design and implementation of those systems.

5G IT Hub Seminar: Charalambos Konstantinou (KAUST)

Date: Friday, 25th March 2022
Time: 10:00h CET
Location: NTP-001 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Full video lecture will be available soon!

Charalambos Konstantinou
Assistant Professor, KAUST
https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/charalambos-konstantinou

Resilience as the Master Key for Secure Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

Abstract:

This talk will give an overview of the research of the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) lab (sentry.kaust.edu.sa) at KAUST. The transformation of critical grid infrastructures into cyber-physical energy systems contributes towards modernization allowing for better planning, more flexible control, system-wide optimization, etc. However, the cyber-threat landscape on these infrastructures seems to widen with increasing sophistication associated with the use of internet-of-things (IoT) and cloud-based services despite significant benefits in terms of reliability and efficiency. The talk will present different cases of attack strategies simulated under various operating conditions to uncover their system-wide impacts in power systems, as well as illustrate the impact of such attacks and the feasibility of detection methods in simulation models in order to enhance system resilience.

Biography:
Charalambos Konstantinou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (CS) and Affiliate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division (CEMSE) of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is the Principal Investigator of the SENTRY Lab (Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems – sentry.kaust.edu.sa) and a member of the Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center (RC3) at KAUST. Before joining KAUST, he was an Assistant Professor with the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) at Florida State University (FSU). His research interests are in secure, trustworthy, and resilient cyber-physical and embedded IoT systems. He is also interested in critical infrastructures security and resilience with special focus on smart grid technologies, renewable energy integration, and real-time simulation. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New York University (NYU), NY, in 2018, and a M.Eng. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2012.

BalkanCom 2021 Conference – Novi Sad

Dates: Monday-Wednesday, 20-22nd September 2021

Link: http://www.balkancom.info/2021/

BalkanCom is a major event focused on communications, networking and signal processing in the Balkan Region. It was a new conference, conceived as a small single-track event that promotes high research quality standards and brings world-class keynote speakers and researchers to one of the Balkan countries each year. After one year delay due to COVID-19 pandemic, BalkanCom 2021 is successfully organized in Novi Sad as a hybrid event. This year’s keynote speakers lineup included Prof. Danijela Čabrić (UCLA), Prof. Roy Yates (Rutgers University) and Prof. Petar Popovski (Aalborg University). H2020 INCOMING project organized a special session on Massive IoT communications as part of BalkanCom 2021.