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      Michele Polese

      I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI), Northeastern University, Boston.

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  • 11/2025: Best Paper Award at CNSM 2024 and Best Short Paper Award at IEEE VNC 2024.

  • 05/2025: Press on the completion of the O-RAN ALLIANCE project on digital twins. News comments on CNN and Axios.

  • 2025: New grants - PI on NSF POSE Phase II CROSSComm and NSF Open Spectrum.

  • 2025: Elected chair of the AI-RAN Alliance AI-and-RAN Working Group (WG2).

  • 2024: Papers at MobiHoc, INFOCOM Workshops, IEEE CCNC, IFIP Networking, MILCOM, ACM WiNTECH, ACM Multimedia Systems, IEEE VNC, CNSM, and more.

  • 2024: New grants - Co-PI on NTIA ACCoRD, NTIA DigiRAN, NSF SII-NRDZ.

  • 02/2024: JSAC Open RAN special issue is published, with a paper on Empowering the 6G Cellular Architecture With Open RAN.

  • 01/2024: New projects - PI on NTIA AutoRAN and the O-RAN Alliance Seed Funding award. Co-PI on an award part of the MassTech Collaborative Technology and Innovation Ecosystem Awards program. Press release from the Healey-Driscoll administration.

  • 08/2023: New projects - Co-PI on NTIA TENORAN and NSF SWIFT-SAT.

  • 04/2023: We launched a fully automated private 5G network at Northeastern.

  • 03/2023: I will be TPC Co-Chair for ACM WiNTECH 2023 and WONS 2024.

  • 02/2023: Neutral host demo at MWC 2023.

  • 11/2022: I won the ISSNAF Mario Gerla Award for Research in Computer Science.

  • 08/2022: Co-PI in the NSF Grant CNS 2225590 to enable mobile terahertz communications for 6G cellular networks.

  • 07/2022: Open6G launch with a grant from DOD's Innovate Beyond 5G Program.

  • 05/2022: Dynamic spectrum sharing between active and passive users above 100 GHz: new paper published on Nature's Communications Engineering. Paper, news article, blog post.

  • 04/2022: The O-RAN Software Community TOC has voted to include the E2 integration for ns-3 in the OSC.

  • 03/2022: OpenRAN Gym is available - unleash your experimental O-RAN AI and ML research.

  • 02/2022: I have been appointed to serve on the Committee on Radio Frequency Allocations of the American Meteorological Society (2022-2027).

  • 11/2021: Check out the Open 5G Forum - November 17 and 18, free registration. Partially supported by an ACM SIGMOBILE grant.

  • 10/2021: We presented a demo at the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles on intelligent control for O-RAN networks.

  • 07/2021: The DeepBeam dataset and code are publicly available. This is the first 4 TB I/Q samples dataset at 60 GHz.

  • 07/2021: I co-authored a change request that has been included in the O-RAN Working Group 3 Near-Real-time RAN Intelligent Controller E2 Service Model (E2SM) KPM specifications.