Michele Polese
Research Assistant Professor, Technical Director
Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) Northeastern University
07/2026: Appointed Technical Director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) at Northeastern. Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
2026: zTouch Networks won the Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile T-Challenge 2026 and an AI-RAN Alliance Innovation Award.
2026: Keynote at ACM WiseML, organized the Open6G+AI Workshop, and papers at IEEE INFOCOM, ACM WiSec, IEEE DySPAN, and IEEE NetSoft.
2025: Elected chair of the AI-RAN Alliance AI-and-RAN Working Group. New grants as PI: NSF POSE Phase II CROSSComm and NSF Open Spectrum.