:: Keynote Speakers

Emil Björnson is a Professor of Wireless Communication at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is an IEEE Fellow, Digital Futures Fellow, and Wallenberg Academy Fellow. He has a podcast and YouTube channel called Wireless Future. His research focuses on multi-antenna communications and radio resource management, using methods from communication theory, signal processing, and machine learning. He has authored four textbooks and published a large amount of simulation code.  He has received the 2018 and 2022 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Awards in Wireless Communications, the 2019 EURASIP Early Career Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award, the 2020 Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award, the 2020 CTTC Early Achievement Award, the 2021 IEEE ComSoc RCC Early Achievement Award, and the 2023 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award. His work has also received six Best Paper Awards at conferences.

Keynotes Speaker2:
Speaker:
Pierluigi Siano
Email: psiano@unisa.ir
Presentation Title:
Distributed Optimization of Energy Communities in Smart Grids.


Speaker’s Bio:

Pierluigi Siano is a Professor and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. His research activities are centered on demand response, on energy management, on the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, on electricity markets and on planning and management of power systems. In these research fields he has co-authored more than 550 articles including more than 300 international journal papers that received in Scopus more than 11000 citations with an H-index equal to 51. In 2019 and 2020 he received the award as Highly cited Researcher by ISI Web of Science Group. He has been the Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. He is Editor for the Power & Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IEEE Systems, Open Journal of the IEEE IES, IET Smart Grid and IET Renewable Power Generation.

Keynotes Speaker3:
Speaker:
Prof.  Faramarz Hossein-Babaei
Email: fhbabaei@kntu.ac.ir
Presentation Title:
Thermoelectricity and polycrystalline thermoelectric materials: research trends and applications.


Speaker’s Bio:

Faramarz Hossein-Babaei received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from Amir-Kabir Industrial University, Tehran, Iran, in 1971, and the M.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, UK, in 1975 and 1978, respectively. He is a Professor of Electronic Materials and the Head of the Electronic Materials Laboratory at the Electrical Engineering Department of K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, where he has, so far, supervised 22 Ph.D. candidates and 80 M.Sc. students. He has simultaneously been an adjunct professor at the Materials Engineering Departments of Iran University of Science and Technology (1979–1998) and University of British Columbia (1998–2005). He has founded a number of science-based spin-off companies, mostly active in the fields of high-temperature electronic materials and technology. His present research interests include electric heating, thermoelectric materials, oxide semiconductors, sensors, microfluidics, chemical sensors, and artificial olfaction systems. He received the International Khwarizmi Award for his pioneering R&D work on high-temperature systems in 2006. Prof. Hossein-Babaei’s name has appeared four times, including 2024, on the Saramadan List of Iran Science Elite Federation (ISEF).