Aylin Yener

Selected Talks, Keynotes and Tutorials

1. “Semantic Task-Oriented Communications for 6G and Beyond,” Invited Talk, 1st Online Workshop on Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications, Online, September 2025.
2. “Connecting with Purpose for 6G and Beyond,” Keynote, SIU, Online, June 2025.
3. “Connecting with Purpose for 6G and Beyond,” Keynote, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 2025.
4. “Overview of Spectrum X and its Education and Workforce Development Activities,” Invited Presentation, National Spectrum Management Association (NSMA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 2025.
5. “Connecting with Purpose at the Wireless Edge,” Keynote, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Milan, Italy, March 2025.
6. “Connecting with Purpose at the Wireless Edge,” Distinguished Seminar, University of Bologna, Italy, March 2025.
7. “Connecting with Purpose: The Next Wireless Revolution,” Keynote, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2024.
8. “Semantic Communications for AI-Native 6G,” Keynote, 2024 International Conference on Future Communications and Networks, online, November 2024.
9. “Semantic Communications for AI-Native 6G,” Keynote, 7th O-RAN 6G Workshop, online, October 2024.
10. “Semantic communication networks: The next frontier for 6G and beyond,” Keynote, 25th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Lucca, Italy, September 2024.
11. “The Role of Semantics in AI-native 6G,” Keynote, IEEE Hong Kong 6G Wireless Summit, Hong Kong, China, September 2024.
12. “The Role of Pre-trained Models and Generative AI in Semantic Communication,” Keynote, IEEE International Conference on Communications Task-Oriented and Generative Communications Workshop, Denver, CO, USA, June 2024.
13. “Using Wireless to Better Federated Learning,” Keynote, IEEE International Conference on Communications Edge Learning Over 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond Workshop, Denver, CO, USA, June 2024.
14. “Will 6G be Semantic Communications?,” Talk, American University of Beirut Workshop on AI for communications and semantic communications, online, April 2024.
15. “Wireless is back: The 6G Revolution Towards Connected Intelligence,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Speaker Webinar, Kerala Chapter, India, March 2024.
16. “Not Beyond, but with Shannon,” Plenary, Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA’24, San Diego, CA, February 2024.
17. “Wireless is back: The 6G Revolution Towards Connected Intelligence,” Distinguished Seminar, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2023.
18. “Wireless is back: The 6G Revolution Towards Connected Intelligence,” Distinguished Seminar, Central Supelec, Paris, France, December 2023.
19. “Wireless is back: The 6G Revolution Towards Connected Intelligence,” Communications and Signal Processing Seminar, University of Michigan, October 2023.
20. “Semantic Text Classification for 6G and Beyond,” Keynote, VTC 2023 Fall workshop on Taskoriented communications and networking, October 2023.
21. “Semantic Text Classification for 6G and Beyond,” Invited Talk, ComSoc Next Generation IoT Webinar, online, August 2023
22. “Semantic Communications and Compression for 6G and Beyond,” Invited Talk, 2nd 6G Wireless Foundations Forum, French Riviera, France, July 2023.
23. “Machine Learning Training for Sustainable Career Growth,” Invited Presentation/Panelist, NSF IEEE Workshop: Towards Explainable, Reliable and Sustainable Machine Learning in Signal and Data Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 2023.
24. “Semantic Communications for 6G: Connecting Human and Machine intelligence,” Invited Talk, 3rd 6G Summit on Connecting the Unconnected, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, January 2023.
25. “The Role of Wireless Communications in 6G Revolution: Connecting Human and Artificial Intelligence,” Keynote, IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW), Marbella, Spain, October 2022.
26. “Selected Topics in 6G,” Invited Lectures, 2022 Joint Telematics Group/IEEE Information Theory Society Summer School on Signal Processing, Communications and Networks, virtual, June 2022.
27. “Semantic Communication Theory: Past, Present and 6G,” Keynote, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Semantic Communications Workshop, virtual, May 2022.
28. “6G for Information Security and Information Security for 6G,” Invited Talk, IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Monthly Seminar, virtual, March 2022.
29. “6G: The Era of the Edge,” Distinguished Seminar, Bilkent University, virtual, February 2022.
30. “Information Security for the 6G Connected Future,” Distinguished Colloquium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ECE Distinguished Colloquium Series, online, April 2021.
31. “Securing a Wireless Connected Future,” Invited Presentation/Panelist, NSF NextG Security Workshop, online, October 2020.
32. “Security for and by Caching Networks,” Keynote, IEEE International Workshop on Privacy and Security for Information Systems (WPS) 2020, online, July 2020.
33. “Information Security for the All-Connected World,” Invited Presentation, JASON (via NRO), online, June 2020.
34. “The Evolving Role of Physical Layer for the Wireless World,” Invited Presentation/Panelist, NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative Workshop, online, May 2020.
35. “Information Security for the Connected World,” Invited Talk, ESE Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 2019.
36. “Information Security for the All-Connected World,” Plenary, Information Theory Workshop, Visby, Sweden, August 2019.
37. “Information Security for the Connected World,” Distinguished Seminar, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 2019.
38. “What Can Machine Learning Do for Communications?,” Invited Talk, NYU Data Science Center, New York, NY, January 2019.
39. “Recent Advances in Cache-Aided Wireless Networks,” Invited Talk, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, January 2019.
40. “Recent Advances in Cache-Aided Wireless Networks,” IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, December 2018.
41. “Recent Advances in Cache-Aided Wireless Networks,” Invited Talk, Sun Yat-sen University Coding and Information Theory Workshop, Guangzhou, China, November 2018.
42. “Foundations of Energy Harvesting and Energy Cooperating Wireless Networks,” Keynote, The Fifth International Workshop on Next Generation Green Wireless Networks (Next-GWiN 2018), Sheffield, England, September 2018.
43. “Women in Engineering Academia: A Lunch Discussion,” IEEE WiE Keynote, IEEE VTC Fall, Chicago, IL, August 2018.
44. “Towards Design Principles of Next Generation Networked Systems: Information Security and Energy Sustainability,” Physics and Theory Colloquium, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, July 2018.
45. “Foundations of Energy Harvesting and Energy Cooperating Wireless Networks,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecture Tour, Imperial College, London; King’s College, London; Trinity College, Dublin; University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, July 2018.
46. “Recent Advances in Cache-Aided Wireless Networks,” Keynote, 22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2018), Bochum, Germany, March 2018.
47. “Energy Harvesting and Energy Cooperating Wireless Networks: A New Frontier for Communication Theory and Information Theory,” Invited Talk, Systems Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, November 2017.
48. “Foundations of Energy Harvesting Communications,” Invited Lecture, 10th Annual School of Information Theory GeorgiaTech, June 2017.
49. “Foundations of Energy Harvesting and Energy Cooperating Wireless Networks,” Keynote, WiOpt 2017 GREENNET Workshop, Paris, France, May 2017.
50. “Foundations of Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications,” Keynote, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC’17 Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Remotely Powered Wireless Communications for IoT, San Francisco, CA, March 2017.
51. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks: A New Frontier for Communication Theory and Information Theory,” Invited Talk, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Emerging Wireless Networks Workshop, University of California Los Angeles, CA, February 2017.
52. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks: A New Frontier for Communication Theory and Information Theory,” Invited Talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, September 2016.
53. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks: A New Frontier for Communication Theory and Information Theory,” Invited Talk, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2016.
54. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks: A New Frontier for Communication Theory and Information Theory,” Invited Talk, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, July 2016.
55. “Energy Harvesting and Remotely Powered Wireless Networks,” Tutorial, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT’16, July 2016, Barcelona.
56. “Information Theoretic Security,” Invited Lecture, 9th Annual North American School of Information Theory, Duke University, Durham, NC, June 2016.
57. “Towards Design Principles of Next Generation Networked Systems: Information Security and Energy Sustainability,” Distinguished Lecture, Bradley Distinguished Lecture Series, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, April 2016.
58. “MIMO Wiretap Channel with a Cooperative Jammer,” Invited Talk, Mathematical Tools of Information Theoretic Security Workshop, Huawei Technologies/Supelec, Paris, France, September 2015.
59. “Security by the Physical Layer: A Promising Direction for Next Generation Wireless Network Design,” Invited Lecture, Gray Communications Advances in Information Theory Workshop, London Probability Seminar, Imperial College, London, England, June 2015.
60. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications,” Tutorial, IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC’15, London, England, June 2015.
61. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Networks,” Invited Talk, Department Colloquium, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 2015.
62. “Design Principles for Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Networks,” Invited Talk, Analytical Tools for Next Generation Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, June 2014.
63. “Security by the Physical Layer: A Promising Direction for Next Generation Wireless Network Design,” Keynote, ICC 2014 Workshop on Physical Layer Security, Sydney, Australia, June 2014.
64. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications,” Tutorial, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC’14, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2014.
65. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Networks,” Invited Talk, ISL Colloquium, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 2014.
66. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications,” Tutorial, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Globecom’13, Atlanta, GA, December 2013.
67. “Wireless Networks and Information Security: Models and Metrics,” Invited Talk, Workshop on Multi Spectrum Metrics for Cyber Defense, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2013.
68. “Two-way Green Cooperative Networking with Energy Harvesting,” Invited Talk, IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Phuket, Thailand, June 2013.
69. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks,” Invited Talk, Wireless Communications and Economics Workshop, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 2013.
70. “Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications,” Tutorial, IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC’13, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.
71. “Green Wireless Communications,” Tutorial, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC’12, Sydney, Australia, September 2012.
72. “Green Wireless Networking with Energy Harvesting Nodes,” Invited Talk, Workshop on Methodological Foundations of Green Radio, Paris, France June 2012.
73. “Multiuser Wireless Secrecy: Lessons Learned from Information Theory,” Invited Talk, Supelec, France, June 2012.
74. “Secrecy: Benefits of Interaction,” Invited Talk, Banff International Research Station (BIRS) Workshop on Interactive Information Theory, Banff, Canada, January 2012.
75. “Interference, Structured Random Codes and Secrecy,” Invited Talk, Banff International Research Station Workshop on Algebraic Structure in Information Theory, Banff, Canada, August 2011.
76. “Energy Efficiency of Future Networks,” Invited Lecture, Wireless Information Theory Summer School, Oulu, Finland, July 2011.
77. “Cooperation, Interference and Secrecy: Lessons Learned from Information Theory,” Keynote, ICC 2011 Workshop on Physical Layer Security, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.