for industry’s practical goals...”
Presentations and lively discussions over three days explored the ways in which AI and other cutting‐edge technologies promise “superpowers” for 6G wireless, while at the same time posing challenges in areas such as security and sustainability.
For the first time, the Summit featured a student panel of doctoral candidates from schools including NYU Tandon School of Engineering; The University of Texas, Austin; Northeastern University; Technische Universität Dresden; and the University of Oulu in Finland.
Nokia’s Peter Vetter, President of Bell Labs Core Research, moderated the panel, engaging the students in spirited discussion about the challenges and opportunities in wireless, the benefits of industry collaboration with academia, and interesting aspects of wireless tech that attracted the students to the field.
Student finalists, who included Ruth Gebremedhin and Mingjun Ying of NYU WIRELESS, predicted that security will become a key issue as AI models are infused into research, practice, and products. They also saw AI as an accelerator for optimizing channel measurements with an eye on devising ways of using AI to drive applications leading to better coverage reliability and AI transformers that can create material-embedded 3D environments for industry to help with challenges around base station deployment.