Invited Talks & Tutorials
 

Foundation Models for 6G: The Next Frontier of Native-AI                                                           September 2025
Invited Talk, DRDC Ottawa Research Centre (ORC) Seminar Series, Ottawa, Canada
 

Building Foundation Models and Generalizable AI in 6G: From Theory to Practice                June 2025
Tutorial, IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada

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The Road to Trustworthy Deep Reinforcement Learning in 6G Networks                                  June 2025
Tutorial, IEEE Biennial Symposium on Communications, Sherbrooke, Canada
                                                  

Reinforcement Learning for Next-Generation Networks: The Road to Trustworthiness            May 2025
Tutorial, IEEE IEEE ICMLCN 2025, Barcelona, Spain
 

Building Foundation Models and Generalizable AI in 6G                                                            Feb. 2025 
Invited Talk, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada

The Road to Trustworthy Deep Reinforcement Learning in 6G Networks                                  Dec 2024
Tutorial, IEEE Globecom 2024, Cape Town, South Africa
 

GREAT AI for Foundational Models in 6G                                                                                      Oct. 2024
Invited Talk, Ericsson R&D Site, Ottawa, Canada
 

Fast, Efficient, and Safe AI                                                                                                                May 2023
Keynote, Workshop on Trustworthy and Explainable AI, University of Calgary, Canada

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Beyond 5G Networks with Integrated Intelligence, Metaverses, and Perception                      June 2022
Invited Talk, Schulich Innovates, University of Calgary, Canada
 

Building Scalable & Reliable Internet-of-Things Networks                                                            Apr. 2021

Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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Robust Network Intelligence for Future Networks                                                                        March 2021

School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

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Predictive Networking: Applications and Techniques                                                                    Aug. 2020

Department of Computer Science, Western University, London, Canada

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Navigating the Road to Autonomous Networking                                                                          May 2020*

Machine Learning and AI Ottawa Meetup Group (4400+ Members) Invited Talks Series
*originally scheduled to present May 2020, postponed and has not yet been held due to Covid-19.

Ottawa, Canada

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Toward Applied and Reproducible Reinforcement Learning in Wireless Networks                July 2020

Keynote Industrial Talk: DRONECOM 2020 Workshop, collocated with INFOCOM, 2020

Workshop on Drone-Assisted Smart Backhaul Solutions for 5G and Beyond

Toronto, Canada

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[Invited Panelist] AI in Practice: Developments & Careers                                                     February 2020

Your Data, Big Data Conference, Project Tech Conferences (PTC) 2020

Carleton University, Ottawa Canada

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[Invited Panelist] Telecommunications Industry                                                                     November 2019

Students in Engineering & Technology (SET) Conference

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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AI-Driven 5G Networks and Beyond                                                                                             October 2019

IEEE Ottawa Section Seminar Series on AI and Machine Learning

Kanata, Canada

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Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks Workshop                                                         March 2019

Ericsson ONE Innovations Center                                         

Ottawa, Canada

 

Introduction to Machine Learning Workshop                                                                                 March 2019

Ericsson ONE Innovations Center                                         

Ottawa, Canada

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On Applying Data Networking Traffic Engineering in Autonomous Transportation Management

Workshop                                                                                                                                                       June 2018

Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems                                         

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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Big Data and Connectivity Enablers for Autonomous Transportation Systems                  March 2018

Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems                                 

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

 

Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization for Service Provider and Data Center Networks                  TRLab, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada,                                                         May 2017

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Predictive Radio Access Networks for Vehicular Content Delivery                                        October 2014

WiSense Lab, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

 

Predictive Radio Access and Scheduling for Vehicular Communications                                    July 2014

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

 

Vehicular Networks Tutorial: Concepts, Architectures and Standardization                              2011-2013

Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

• CISC 834: Paradigms of Wireless and Mobile Networking (Graduate Course).

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