6G and Beyond: New Waveforms, Integrated Sensing, and Connected Agents

Peiying Zhu is Senior Vice President of Wireless Research at Huawei, where she leads wireless research and standardization for 5G and beyond. She is a Huawei Fellow, an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and is active in 3GPP and IEEE 802 standards development. She received her PhD from Concordia University in 1993. Before joining Huawei in 2009, she was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology, leading research and prototyping on MIMO-OFDM and multi-hop relay; many of these technologies were adopted into LTE standards and 4G products. She holds more than 200 granted patents.

Melda Yüksel is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU), and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, Canada. She received her B.S. from METU in 2001 and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2007, and worked at TOBB University of Economics and Technology until 2021. Her research interests are faster-than-Nyquist signaling, MIMO systems, precoding and beamforming, and multi-user information theory. She received a best paper award at IEEE ICC 2007 and the 2012 Turkish National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Arman Farhang is Kinsella Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 2026. He received his PhD in wireless communications from Trinity College Dublin in 2016 and previously held assistant professor positions at Maynooth University and University College Dublin. His research focuses on waveform design and multiple-antenna systems for future wireless networks. He is a member of the Research Ireland centres CONNECT, ADVANCE-CRT and ARC Hub in ICT, an IEEE Senior Member, and a founding member and co-chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Next-Evolution Waveform.

Aryan Kaushik is Chief Executive Officer and Director of OUF Innovative, UK. He received his MSc in Telecommunications from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2015 and his PhD in Communications Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 2019. He was a Research Fellow at University College London, Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) at the University of Sussex, and Associate Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests include signal processing for 5G/6G, integrated sensing and communications, reconfigurable intelligent and holographic surfaces, and non-terrestrial networks. He chairs the IEEE ComSoc Technical Working Group on Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory and is the editor of six books.

Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor and Docent in the Division of Communication Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, where she has worked since 2017. She received her M.Sc. (2013) and Ph.D. (2016) from CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France. Her research centres on stochastic modelling and optimization of wireless networks; she currently works on efficient and secure decentralized AI over large-scale wireless networks, including communication-efficient distributed consensus and optimization and wireless federated learning. She received the 2020 IEEE ComSoc Young Author Best Paper Award and was appointed a Wallenberg Academy Fellow in 2025. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

Shuangyang Li works on OTFS and delay-Doppler communications, waveform design and channel coding. He holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University and a second Ph.D. (2022) from the University of New South Wales. After a research associate post at the University of Western Australia, he joined TU Berlin as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow with Giuseppe Caire, and leads the ERC Starting Grant project FUNDOCS (Foundations of Delay Doppler Communications and Sensing). His honours include the 2024 IEEE ComSoc EMEA Best Young Researcher Award and an IEEE ICC 2023 best paper award. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications.