Program
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First International Workshop on Pervasive Radars (PerRad) Monday, March 16th 2026 |
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Stephan Sigg is a Professor at Aalto University in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering. With a background in the design, analysis and optimisation of algorithms for distributed and ubiquitous systems, he focuses on sensing systems for environmental perception and Usable (perception-based) Security. Especially, his work covers proactive computing, distributed adaptive beamforming, context-based secure key generation and device-free passive activity recognition. Stephan is an editor for the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). He has served on the organizing and technical committees numerous prestigious conferences including IEEE PerCom, ACM Ubicomp, IEEE ICDCS.
Keynote Title: Integrated communication and sensing for Pervasive Computing
Abstract: With the advance of radio sensing in recent years, integrated communication and sensing is one of the key drivers of future communication systems. I will provide an overview on recent advances, open challenges and new research opportunities in integrated communication and sensing. The technology may allow a ubiquitous, connected sensing system. Application domains are diverse and range from vehicular domains over industrial and home/ personal to the monitoring of physiological signals for remote health applications. New advances towards Quantum RF sensing have been proposed as well as the integration into medical devices and the perception of sentiment, while holographic sensing techniques promise unprecedented imaging capabilities. But will such system indeed be anticipated, given its privacy, ethical and still also technical challenges?
Archan Misra is a Professor at Aalto University in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering. With a background in the design, analysis and optimisation of algorithms for distributed and ubiquitous systems, he focuses on sensing systems for environmental perception and Usable (perception-based) Security. Especially, his work covers proactive computing, distributed adaptive beamforming, context-based secure key generation and device-free passive activity recognition. Stephan is an editor for the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). He has served on the organizing and technical committees numerous prestigious conferences including IEEE PerCom, ACM Ubicomp, IEEE ICDCS.
George Shaker is an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo, affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. He is also a member of the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB), and the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR), while overseeing wireless technology and sensor development at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging. Since co-founding Spark Tech Labs in 2011, he has served as Principal Scientist and Head of Research. Previously, he was an NSERC scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology and held multiple roles at RIM (BlackBerry). Dr. Shaker has authored or coauthored over 70 publications and holds 15+ patents and patent applications. He has delivered keynote talks at the 2011 IEEE LAPC, the 2011 IEEE iThings, and the 2015 Ambient Intelligence conference, and served as a short course lecturer at IEEE APS 2010. He has been a TPC member for IEEE MTT-IMS, IEEE APS, IEEE EuCAP, IEEE iWAT, IEEE EMC, and IEEE WF-IoT. His numerous awards include the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (sole winner in Electromagnetics across Canada), three IEEE AP-S Best Paper Awards, four IEEE AP-S Honorable Mention Best Paper Awards, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Graduate Research Award, the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship, and the 2018 Computer Vision Conference Imaging Best Paper Award. Two of his co-authored IEEE journal papers ranked among the top 25 most downloaded on IEEE Xplore for several consecutive months.
Hirozumi Yamaguchi received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respectively. He is currently a full professor at Osaka University and leads the Mobile Computing Laboratory. He has been working in the research areas of cyber-physical systems, mobile and pervasive computing, with a focus on smart cities and smart living. He has taken on roles as an area editor for Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing and Ad Hoc Networks. He has also served as a general chair, TPC chair, or organizing committee member for IEEE conferences, including IEEE PerCom, SmartComp, ICDCN, and EAI Mobiquitous, and has been involved as a technical committee member in numerous mobile computing and wireless communication conferences of IEEE. He was awarded Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2018.