The 2nd edition of the quantum communication networks summer school is coming up! This time with a 6G supplement: the transCampus Summer School on 6G and Quantum Communication Networks.
We are delighted to have renowned experts from academia and industry as our guests again this year. They will present the results and methods of their research in quantum and 6G technologies, focusing on the role that quantum technologies can play in 6G standardisation.
In addition to the talks, there will be time for poster presentations and intense discussions on the topics.
Registration
Are you interested? Please register on eventbrite for the two-day event taking place in London on 19-20 June 2025.
Lecturer
Ahsan Javed Awan
works as a Technology Specialist in Emerging Compute Algorithms at Ericsson Research. Prior to joining Ericsson in 2018, he worked at Imperial College London in the UK. He holds a joint Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and the UPC, Barcelona, Spain. Ahsan has coauthored more than 20 research papers (including two best paper awards) and filed more than 30 patent applications (including 7 granted patents in the US & EU).
Alessandra di Pierro
is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona, Italy. Before moving to Verona, she was a lecturer at the department of Computer Science – University of Pisa, where she also received her PhD in Computer Science. Alessandra’s research interests are in theoretical computer science with a main focus on the theory of quantum computation and its applications to Machine Learning. She leads the QUILAB (Quantum Information Laboratory) research group at the department of Computer Science in Verona. Since 2017 she is a member of the steering and organising committee of the annual conference QTML (Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning), and field editor for Quantum Software of the Springer journal `Quantum Machine Intelligence’..
Enrico Buracchini
Currently, Enrico is a 5G senior project manager into INNOVATION DEPT of TIM (former CSELT R&D labs). He was elected Vice Chairman of 3GPP RAN Plenary at last meeting in March in Incheon. Since 2001 release 5, he has been actively participating in 3GPP, covering the standardization of WCDMA, HSPA, LTE, LTE ADV and NR, with experience extending across the whole RAN TSGs domain. He is currently RAN1, RAN2 and RAN Plenary Delegate, coordinating TIM technical work into 3GPP RANs groups. Recently, Enrico actively contributed to 6G and 5G Advanced roadmaps, AI/ML models for data collection and operator control, TRP/TRS requirements and 2Rx XR Ue items, besides of several other items. In rel8 and 9 LTE standardization period, he was Rapporteur of ICIC SI/WIs. Besides of 3GPP, he actively contributed, from 1996 to 1999, to ITU RTG8/1 group dedicated to IMT2000, being one of the inventor of the ITU R 3GPP process. From 2013 to 2018, he actively contributed to ITU R WP 5D, being editor and coordinator of several sections of IMT2020 Vision and IMT 2020 Technology Trends.
Zoran Radivojevic
is a physicist with a PhD from the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, has a distinguished career in research and development. After specializing in complex detector systems for accelerator physics, he worked at the Helsinki Institute of Physics and the ALICE CERN project in Geneva. In 2003, he joined Nokia Research Centre, where he explored new technologies. He later served as a new technology sourcing expert in Tokyo for Nokia. In 2007, he played a key role in establishing a new Nokia research center in Cambridge, UK, focusing on nanomaterials and optoelectronics. Since 2016, he has been leading research projects on quantum sensing and patent generation processes at Nokia Bell Labs.
Organisers
Riccardo Bassoli
Riccardo Bassoli is a Juniorprofessur at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks and Head of the Quantum Communication Networks (QCNets) research group, at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Technische Universität Dresden. He is member of the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-loop (CeTI), Cluster of Excellence, Dresden. He is also member of the EU Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) and of the EU flagship for 6G Hexa-X II. He is principal investigator in the 6G-life research hub of Germany. He got his Ph.D. from 5G Innovation Centre at University of Surrey (UK), in 2016. He was also a Marie Curie ESR at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal) and visiting researcher at Airbus Defence and Space (France). Between 2016 and 2019, he was postdoctoral researcher at Università di Trento (Italy).
Osvaldo Simeone
Osvaldo Simeone received the M.Sc. (with honors) and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is a Professor in information engineering. He codirects the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems, Department of Engineering of King’s College London, where he also leads King’s Communications, Learning and Information Processing Laboratory. He is also a Visiting Professor with the Connectivity Section, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. From 2006 to 2017, he was a Faculty Member with the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where he was affiliated with the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP).
