IEEE FINE 2026
International Conference on Future and Intelligent Networking (FINE 2026)
August 26-28, 2026 · Osaka, Japan

Technical Program Committee

  • TPC Chairs
  • Ruidong Li

    Kanazawa University, Japan

  • Kaushik Chowdhury

    Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

  • Track 1: Future Mobile and Wireless Networks (6G, NTN, Extreme Network, Wi-Fi 8+)
  • Track Chairs:

  • Frank Fitzek

    TU Dresden, Germany

  • Imran Shafique Ansari

    University of Glasgow, U.K.

  • Raffaele Bruno

    CNR, Italy

  • Gianluca Rizzo

    Universita' di Torino, Italy

  • TPC Members:

  • Rosario G. Garroppo

    University of Pisa, Italy

  • Apostolos Xenakis

    University of Thessaly, Greece

  • Harri Pennanen

    University of Oulu, Finland

  • Marja Matinmikko-Blue

    University of Oulu, Finland

  • Alessandro Guidotti

    University of Bologna, Italy

  • Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli

    University of Bologna, Italy

  • Miguel Vázquez

    Florida Atlantic University, USA

  • Tim O'Shea

    Boston University, USA

  • Po-Ying Chen

    Duke University, USA

  • Takehiro Nakamura

    UN Environment

  • Riccardo Campana

    INAF, Italy

  • Yu Tian

    Aalto University, Finland

  • Brahim Mefgouda

    National School of Computer Science, Tunisia

  • Anis Bara

    Khalifa University, UAE

  • Bilal Ahmad

    University of Strathclyde, U.K.

  • Andrea Bianco

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  • Jalel Ben Othman

    Université Paris 13, France

  • Shuai Gao

    Beijing Jiaotong University, China

  • Jelena Mišić

    Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

  • Kozo Satoda

    NEC Corporation, Japan

  • Mingkui Wei

    George Mason University, USA

  • Yuan Zhang

    Southeast University, China

  • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

    Arizona State University, USA

  • Track 2: Open and Intelligent RAN (Open-RAN, vRAN, AI-RAN)
  • Track Chairs:

  • Paolo Bellavista

    University of Bologna, Italy

  • Rasheed Hussain

    University of Bristol, U.K.

  • Fatemeh Afghah

    Clemson University, USA

  • TPC Members:

  • Aly Sabri Abdalla

    Mississippi State University, USA

  • Fatemeh Lotfi

    Clemson University, USA

  • Tolunay Seyfi

    Clemson University, USA

  • Muhammad Asghar Khan

    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA

  • Track 3: Network Softwarization and Programmable Infrastructure
  • Track Chairs:

  • Dimitrios Pezaros

    University of Glasgow, U.K.

  • Ricard Vilalta

    CTTC, Spain

  • TPC Members:

  • Posco Fung Po Tso

    Loughborough University, U.K.

  • Elisa Rojas

    Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Madrid, Spain

  • Richard Cziva

    Meta, USA

  • Aristide Tanyi-Jong Akem

    University of Southampton, U.K.

  • Changgang Zheng

    University of Oxford, U.K.

  • Sandra Scott-Hayward

    Queen's University Belfast, U.K.

  • Nakjung Choi

    Nokia Bell Labs, USA

  • Carlos Natalino

    Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  • Cristina Rottondi

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  • Lluis Gifre

    CTTC/CERCA, Spain

  • Antonio de la Oliva

    UC3M, Spain

  • Carlos Jesus Bernardos Cano

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

  • Sebastian Troia

    Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  • Gianluca Davoli

    University of Bologna, Italy

  • Alex Galis

    University College London, U.K.

  • Augusto José Venâncio Neto

    Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil

  • Salvatore Spadaro

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

  • Paola Iovanna

    Ericsson, Italy

  • Fabrizio Granelli

    University of Trento, Italy

  • Christian Esteve Rothenberg

    Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

  • Israat Haque

    Dalhousie University, Canada

  • Antonio Skármeta

    Universidad de Murcia, Spain

  • Thomas Zinner

    TU Berlin, Germany

  • Kurt Tutschku

    Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden

  • Chrysa Papagianni

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Charalampos Rotsos

    Lancaster University, U.K.

  • Angelos Antonopoulos

    Nearby Computing, Spain

  • Track 4: AI for Network Design, Control, and Operations
  • Track Chairs:

  • Rodolfo Coutinho

    Concordia University, Canada

  • Alessio Sacco

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  • Jérémie Leguay

    Nokia Bell Labs, France

  • TPC Members:

  • Sina Ebrahimi

    Coventry University, U.K.

  • Weiyang Qian

    Concordia University, Canada

  • Jaime Galán-Jiménez

    Universidad de Extremadura, Spain

  • Elisa Rojas

    Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Madrid, Spain

  • Doriana Monaco

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  • Kohei Shiomoto

    Tokyo City University, Japan

  • Marco Polverini

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  • Filippo Malandra

    State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

  • Jiadai Wang

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

  • Kun Yang

    University of Essex, U.K.

  • Claudio Marche

    University of Cagliari, Italy

  • Yuanfang Chen

    Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

  • Hyunbum Kim

    Incheon National University, South Korea

  • Qiang Ye

    Dalhousie University, Canada

  • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

    Arizona State University, USA

  • Track 5: Network Automation, Analytics, and Management
  • Track Chairs:

  • Engin Zeydan

    CTTC, Spain

  • Leonardo Maccari

    Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

  • Muge Sayit

    University of Essex, U.K.

  • TPC Members:

  • Donatos Stavropoulos

    University of Thessaly, Greece

  • Miquel Payaró

    CTTC, Spain

  • Tomáš Čejka

    CTU – FIT, Czech Republic

  • Tharaka Hewa

    University of Oulu, Finland

  • Awaneesh Kumar Yadav

    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

  • Diletta Olliaro

    Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

  • Jorge Baranda

    CTTC, Spain

  • Andrea Marin

    Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy

  • Suayb Arslan

    MIT, USA

  • Abdullah Aydeger

    Florida Institute of Technology, USA

  • Ion Turcanu

    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

  • Gianluca Davoli

    University of Bologna, Italy

  • Michele Segata

    University of Trento, Italy

  • Omran Ayoub

    Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

  • Gabriele Gemmi

    Northeastern University, USA

  • Mattijs Jonker

    University of Twente, Netherlands

  • Daniel Macedo

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

  • Marc-Oliver Pahl

    IMT Atlantique, France

  • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

    Arizona State University, USA

  • Martin Husák

    Masaryk University, Czech Republic

  • Mays Al-Nadal

    University of Essex, U.K.

  • Gianluca Fontanesi

    Nokia Bell Labs, Germany

  • Daniele Tarchi

    University of Florence, Italy

  • Madhusanka Liyanage

    University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Track 6: Internet of AI Agents, Embodied AI Networks, and Network for AI
  • Track Chairs:

  • Stefano Salsano

    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

  • Zhiqing Tang

    Beijing Normal University, China

  • Nirmala Shenoy

    Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  • TPC Members:

  • Sai Vineeth Kandappareddigari

    Northeastern University, USA

  • Prasanna Kumar Kandregula

    M&T Bank, USA

  • Vidya Wadkar

    Verizon, USA

  • Jingjing Wang

    Peking University, China

  • Aditya Bhuvanagiri

    Abbott Laboratories, USA

  • Ishan Sharma

    Google, USA

  • Prathamesh Bhope

    Walmart Global Tech, USA

  • Santosh Yerasuri

    California State University Northridge, USA

  • Brian Berenbach

    Georgia Tech, USA

  • Tianhui Meng

    Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University, China

  • Jitin Khanna

    IBM, USA

  • Mayur Vekariya

    IEEE, USA

  • Yue Zeng

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

  • Jian Li

    Futurewei Technologies, USA

  • Bo Yuan

    Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  • Jiong Lou

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  • Luigi Iannone

    Huawei Technologies, France

  • Peter Willis

    Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  • Ning Chen

    Soochow University, China

  • Stefano Salsano

    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

  • Tianshui Wang

    Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

  • Dirk Trossen

    Huawei Technologies, Germany

  • Antoine Fressancourt

    Huawei Technologies, Germany

  • Rute Sofia

    fortiss GmbH, Germany

  • Erik Golen

    Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  • Xiaoxu Ren

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

  • Tetsuya Saito

    Globiz Professional University, Japan

  • Anusha Sheelavant

    NVIDIA, USA

  • Minghui Dai

    Donghua University, China

  • Ananth Pallapothu

    AMD, USA

  • Francis Thomas

    Oishii, USA

  • Yang Li

    Southwest Jiaotong University, China

  • Sreejith Kaimal

    C3.ai, USA

  • Chandra Shibaji

    SAP, USA

  • Jianxiong Guo

    Beijing Normal University, China

  • Nirmal Jingar

    Wayfair, USA

  • Deepika Sidana

    American Express, USA

  • Chitiz Tayal

    Axtria Inc., USA

  • Gautham Ponnu

    Cornell University, USA

  • Kavitha Janamolla

    University of the Cumberlands, USA

  • Track 7: Semantic Communications, Immersive and Tactile Networking
  • Track Chairs:

  • Zhiyi Tian

    Southeast University, China

  • Nikolaos Pappas

    Linköping University, Sweden

  • TPC Members:

  • Weidong Li

    Wuhan University, China

  • Qihao Dong

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

  • Cheng Huang

    Sichuan University, China

  • Yuyang Zhou

    Southeast University, China

  • Jiale Zhang

    Yangzhou University, China

  • Track 8: Cloud–Edge–Device Computing and Network–Compute Co-Design
  • Track Chairs:

  • Moez Esseghir

    University of Technology of Troyes, France

  • Virginia Pilloni

    University of Cagliari, Italy

  • Huijun Tang

    Durham University, U.K.

  • TPC Members:

  • Máximo Morales Céspedes

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

  • Daniel Corujo

    Universidade de Aveiro / Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal

  • Chenyang Wang

    Shenzhen University, China

  • Hao Yu

    Beihang University, China

  • Yan Chen

    Ruhr University, Germany

  • Jie Zhang

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

  • Jintao Chen

    Zhejiang University, China

  • Xiaoxu Ren

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

  • Yejing Fan

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

  • Shihao Shen

    Shandong University, China

  • Siwei Zheng

    Hydrostar Europe Ltd, United Kingdom

  • Jingyu Zhang

    Changsha University of Science and Technology, China

  • Track 9: IoT, Vehicular, and Industrial Networking Systems
  • Track Chairs:

  • Theofanis Raptis

    National Research Council (CNR), Italy

  • Wanqing Tu

    Durham University, U.K.

  • Jose Neuman De Souza

    Federal University of Ceara, Brazil

  • Rahim Kacimi

    Université de Toulouse, France

  • TPC Members:

  • Di Wu

    University of St Andrews, U.K.

  • Pietro Manzoni

    Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • Antonin Le Floch

    IRIT, France

  • Gayathri Jegan Mohan

    Microsoft, USA

  • Changfu Xu

    Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China

  • Lucas Bréhon-Grataloup

    SAMOVAR, Télécom SudParis, France

  • Davide Borsatti

    University of Bologna, Italy

  • Pascal Lorenz

    University of Haute Alsace, France

  • Noor Ullah

    National Research Council, Italy

  • Carlos T. Calafate

    Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • Wang Xiaoliang

    Nanjing University, China

  • Sotiris Nikoletseas

    University of Patras, Greece

  • Marios Angelopoulos

    International Hellenic University, Greece

  • André-Luc Beylot

    IRIT, France

  • Ziang Liu

    Imperial College London, U.K.

  • Tamoghna Ojha

    IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India

  • Ghada Jaber

    University of Technology of Compiegne, France

  • Astghik Hakobyan

    Center for Scientific Innovations and Education, Armenia

  • Venkatesha Prasad

    Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

  • Riadh Dhaou

    IRIT, France

  • Siwei Zhang

    German Aerospace Center, Germany

  • Nikumani Choudhury

    BITS Pilani, India

  • Track 10: Security, Trust, Privacy, and Network Resilience
  • Track Chairs:

  • Zheng Yan

    Xidian University, China

  • Kuan-Ching Li

    Providence University, Taiwan

  • Kapal Dev

    Munster Technological University, Ireland

  • Junaid Farooq

    University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

  • TPC Members:

  • Maddalena Migliaccio

    University of Salerno, Italy

  • Adil El Yousfi

    University of Salerno, Italy

  • Qixian Ren

    Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

  • Lidia Ogiela

    AGH University of Krakow, Poland

  • Teresa Elia

    University of Salerno, Italy

  • Ling-Huey Li

    University of Salerno, Italy

  • Sisi Zhou

    Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

  • Fabio Clarizia

    University of Salerno, Italy

  • Yishan Yang

    Ningbo University, China

  • Haoxiang Han

    Xidian University, China

  • Xuehang Wang

    Xidian University, China

  • Jiahe Lan

    Xidian University, China

  • Yifan Zhang

    Aalto University, Finland

  • Shufan Fei

    Huaqiao University, China

  • Jie Wang

    Xidian University, China

  • Chen Wang

    Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China

  • Yijia Liu

    Xidian University, China

  • Guohua Tian

    Xidian University, China

  • Xiangwei Meng

    Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

  • Jialei Zhang

    Zhengzhou Normal University, China

  • Florin Pop

    Politehnica Bucharest / ICI Bucharest, Romania



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  • Mar 30, 2026

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