Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair

Ibrahim J Gedeon
(TELUS, Canada)

General Co-Chairs


Wen Tong (Huawei Technologies, Canada)	Peiying Zhu (Huawei Technologies, Canada)

Conference Advisor

Luis M. Correia
(University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs


Yan Chen (Huawei Technologies, Canada)	Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)

Technical Program Co-Chairs


Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)	Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Workshop Co-Chairs

Luis M. Correia
(University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Yi Wang
(Huawei Technologies, China)

Matthew Valenti
(West Virginia University, USA)

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Weihua Zhuang
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

Antonio Loureiro
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Filipe Cardoso
(IP Setubal, Portugal)

Panel Co-Chairs


Jian Li (Huawei Technologies, China)	Roberto Verdone (U. Bologna, Italy)

Keynote Chair

Wei Yu
(University of Toronto)

Registration Chair

Coming soon

Publication Co-Chairs


Xiaoming Chen (Zhejiang University, China)	Hojjat Salehinejad (Mayo Clinic, USA)

Awards Co-Chair

Halim Yanikomeroglu
(Carleton University, Canada)

Special Session Co-Chairs


Marcelo S. Alencar (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)	Narcis Cardona (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)

Poster & Exhibition Co-Chairs

Jelena Misic
(Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

Publicity & Communications /Media (Co-)Chairs


Laurent Clavier (IMT-Nord Lille, France)	Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)

Industry Liaison & Patron (Co-)Chair

Fawzi Behmann
(TelNet Management Consulting, Inc., USA)

Finance Chair

Bruce Worthman
(Finance Director, ComSoc)

Steering Committee


Hamid Aghvami (King’s College London, UK)	Shuzo Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)	Kaveh Pahlavan (WPI Worcester, USA)

Luis M. Correia (University of Lisbon, Portugal)	Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)