Panel Information

AI Native Networking

Abstract: Moderated by D. Rossi (Huawei, France), Panelists Gelenbe Erol (IITiS) Albert Cabellos (UPC) Diego Perino (T+D) Georg Carle (TUM) Laurent Ciavaglia (Rakuten) will discuss emerging trends, challenges and opportunities in making AI a first class citizen of the future network architecture, where AI is no longer an afterthought (as in +AI) but is rather the starting point of the equation (aka AI+) leading to the confluence of networking and AI and a more inter-wined evolution path.

Panel Committee

Dario Rossi is a Senior Expert in Huawei, currently serving as DataCom AI CTO and Director of the DataCom Lab at the Huawei Paris Research Center. He holds an HDR from UPMC (2010), and PhD and MSc degrees from Politecnico di Torino (2005 and 2001 respectively). Before joining Huawei in 2018, he occupied a Chair Professor (2016-2018), Full Professor (2012-2016) and Associate Professor (2006-2012) positions at the Computer Science and Networking department of Telecom ParisTech, and was also a Professor at the LIX department of Ecole Polytechnique (2012-2019). Prior to that, he was a researcher in the Electrical Engineering department at Politecnico di Torino (2001-2006) and held a Visiting Researcher position in the Computer Science division at University of California, Berkeley (2003-2004). He chaired and participated in the steering and technical program committees of 50+ conferences (including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT and ACM SIGCOMM) and 5+ journals (incl. several IEEE Transactions). He has coauthored 15+ patents and 200+ papers in leading conference, that attracted 10+ awards, 7000+ citations and an H-Index of 40+. He is Senior Member of IEEE (2013) and ACM (2015), and has been recepient of IETF Applied Network Research Prize (2016), Google Faculty Research Award (2015), and INFOCOM Distinguished Member recognitions (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019).

Dario Rossi
Huawei

Erol Gelenbe FACM, FIEEE, FIET, FRSS, FIFIP, Professor in the Institute of Theoretical & Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, pioneer in performance evaluation of ICT, invented G-Networks and Random Neural Networks, and applied them to Quality of service (QoS), Energy Consumption, and Cybersecurity, graduating 95 PhDs. Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France (2008), Royal Academy of Science, Arts and Letters of Belgium (2015), Science Academies of Poland (2013) and Turkey (2012), Honorary Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010) and Islamic World Academy of Sciences (2022), he held the Dennis Gabor Chair (2004-2019) at Imperial College as Head (2004-2016) of Intelligent Systems and Networks (ISN). The UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework, ranked the EEE Department 1st in the UK, and ranked Erol's ISN Group top in EEE, for world leading outputs. He was Head of Electrical and Computer Eng'g (1993-98), Duke University, and Director, School of Electrical Eng'g and Computer Science, University of Central Florida (1998-2003) . At INRIA (1972-93), he created the team that developed the commercial Queueing Network Analysis Package, and he developed the FLEXSIM Flexible Manufacturing System Simulator, the SYCOMORE multiprocessor switch and the XANTHOS fibre optics LAN. He was awarded "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the University of Liege (Belgium), Universita' di Roma II (Italy), and Bogazici University (Istanbul), and received the "In Memoriam Dennis Gabor Award" of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2013), the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award and the Grand Prix France Telecom (French Academy of Sciences). In 2020 he was elected to the first class of IFIP Fellows, one of only two (with Sir Tony Hoare) from the UK. He has been PI or Co-PI of over £70M in research grants and is Coordinator or Principal Investigator of several H2020 and FP Projects including (H2020 SDK4ED, SerIoT, and IoTAC. Previous projects include FP PANACEA, NEMESYS, FIt4Green, DIESIS, CASCADAS, UK EPSRC SAN, Aladdin, ECROPS, H2020 GHOST and KONFIDO)

Erol Gelenbe
IITiS

Albert Cabellos received a BSc (2001), MSc (2005) and PhD (2008) degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (www.upc.edu). In 2004 he was awarded with a full scholarship to carry out PhD studies at the Department of Computer Architecture, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain. In september 2005 he became an assistant professor of the Computer Architecture Department and as a researcher in the Broadband Communications Group. In 2010 he joined the NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya where he is the Scientific Director. He is an editor of the Elsevier Journal on Nano Computer Network and founder of the ACM NANOCOM conference, the IEEE MONACOM workshop and the N3Summit. He has also founded the LISPmob open-source initiative along with Cisco. He has been a visiting researcher at Cisco Systems and Agilent Technologies and a visiting professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 2015 he is the Vice-Dean for International and Institutional Relations at FIB-UPC. He has participated in several national (Cicyt), EU (FP7), USA (NSF) and industrial projects (Samsung and Cisco). He has given more than 10 invited talks (MIT, Cisco, INTEL, MIET, Northeastern Univ. etc.) and co-authored more than 15 journal and 40 conference papers. His main research interests are future architectures for the Internet and nano-scale communications.

Albert Cabellos
IITiS

Diego Perino works at the boundaries of research and innovation, to advance state of the art in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) areas, and ensure the successful exploitation of research outputs via technology transfer and industrial impact. He is currently the Director of Telefonica Research (Barcelona, Spain) and leadsa team of researchers in Machine Learning/Deep Learning, HCI, Security/Privacy and Networks/Systems. The aim of the team is to carry research studies on several technological areas of interest to the Telefónica Group and generate impact through technology transfers. Main research and innovation projects of my team at Telefonica include AI applied to networks at large (e.g., fixed, mobile, IoT, platforms), network and system design and measurements, privacy preserving and secure AI, web privacy, SDN/NFV/edge, AI for cognitive applications. From September 2009 to June 2016 he worked at Bell Labs (Paris, France) and in 2016 six months at NICTA (Sydney, Australia). During these years he worked on NFV/SDN, wearable networking, Content-Centric Networking, Content Delivery Networks, and Distributed Systems. He received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Paris Diderot-Paris 7 university in 2009. My Ph.D. Thesis was a collaboration between Orange Labs and INRIA through a CIFRE contract, and focused on algorithms for peer-to-peer multimedia streaming. He received my M.S. in Networking engineering at Politecnico di Torino and Eurecom Institute of Sophia Antipolis in 2006.

Diego Perino
T+D

Georg Carle studied electrical engineering with the University of Stuttgart. He received the Master of Science degree in digital systems from Brunel University, London, and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris (currently, Telecom ParisTech), and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe.,He is a Professor with the Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, heading the Chair of Network Architectures and Services. He worked as a Postdoctoral Scientist with Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, supported by a Marie-Curie Fellowship. Subsequently, he worked with Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin, where he directed the competence center on Global Networking. In 2003, he joined the University of Tïbingen as a Full Professor, founding the Chair of Computer Networks and Internet, from where he moved to Technical University of Munich in 2008. His work addresses Internet technologies, security and resilience of networked systems, and the application of machine learning techniques

Georg Carle
TUM

Laurent Ciavaglia works at Rakuten, inventing new technologies for networks, turning concepts into real-life innovations, by blending inspirational research with a pragmatic approach to create applied solutions to the challenges of future Network Automation and Zero Touch Networking. He is an expert in Intent-based/driven Networking, use of AI techniques (machine learning, machine reasoning) for Network Management and Operations. He has also a solid background and work experience in managing research/innovation teams, especially on new topics/areas, and leading large-scale projects successfully. He serves as co-chair of the IRTF Network Management Research Group (NRMG), and participates in standardization activities related to network and service automation in IETF and ETSI, and as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE SDN initiative Softwarization newsletter, vice-chair of the IEEE CNOM, and Standards Liaison Officer of the IEEE Emerging Technologies Initiative on Network Intelligence, and regularly in the technical committees of IEEE, ACM and IFIP conferences and journals in the field of network management and network Softwarization. He has co-authored more than 80 publications and holds 35 patents in the field of communication systems.

Laurent Ciavaglia
Rakuten

Important dates

April 30, 2022: Paper/Proposal submission
May 15, 2022: Paper/Proposal submission
May 29, 2022: Paper/Proposal submission

June 16, 2022: Regular Paper Submission
July 1, 2022: Invited Paper Submission
July 23, 2022: Notification
August 15, 2022: Camera Ready
September 14-16, 2022: Conference Date

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