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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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  • Editor

    • Editor, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2023-present
    • Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021-present
    • Guest Editor, Advances in wireless networks simulation, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2024
    • Guest Editor, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Open RAN, 2022-2024
    • Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Transport Layer Innovations for Future Networks, 2021
  • Conference Chairing

    • TPC Co-Chair: EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025 (AI4C track), European Wireless 2025, IEEE/IFIP WONS 2024, ACM WiNTECH 2023, ACM Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3) 2021-2022
    • Co-Chair/Organizer: IEEE VTC RitiRAN 2024, IEEE Globecom BRAIN 2024, IEEE Globecom NextGenRAN 2022, Open5G Forum (sponsored by ACM SigMobile community grant) 2021-2022
    • Track Co-Chair: IEEE VTC Spring 2025, 2026
    • Tutorial Co-Chair: IEEE ISCC 2025, 2026, IEEE VTC Fall 2026
    • Demo Chair: IEEE LANMAN 2024
    • Finance Co-Chair: IEEE WoWMoM 2023
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

    • ACM CoNEXT 2025-2026
    • IEEE/IFIP WONS 2022-2025
    • IEEE CCNC 2021-2026
    • IEEE ICC (multiple symposia) 2022-2026
    • IEEE WCNC 2024-2026
    • IEEE ICNC 2024-2025
    • IEEE NetSoft 2024-2025
    • ACM WiNTECH 2024
    • IEEE Globecom (multiple symposia) 2023-2025
    • IEEE PIMRC 2023-2025
    • IEEE HPSR 2023-2025
    • IEEE LANMAN 2023
    • IEEE WoWMoM 2023
    • ACM WNS3 2019-2023
    • IEEE MASS 2021-2022
    • ACM MobiArch 2021-2024
  • Journal Reviewer

    • IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST)
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
    • IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
    • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
    • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
    • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
    • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
    • IEEE Communications Letters (CL)
    • IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG)
    • IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (VTM)
    • IEEE Access
    • IEEE Network
    • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    • Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET)
    • Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM)
  • Conference Reviewer

    • IEEE European Wireless, 5G-WF, 6G Summit, Globecom, ICC, ICNC, LCN, VTC, WCNC, ACM WNS3, WNGW.
  • Proposals Reviewer

    • EIC Pathfinder Open 2025 (Individual Evaluator)
    • French National Research Agency (ANR), 2021

Thesis Committees

  • Pre-Examiner for multiple theses at the University of Oulu, Tampere University, and the University of Adelaide, 2025
  • Gerard Bou Capovilla, Master, Northeastern University, 2022-2024
  • Jacob Hall, Master, Northeastern University, 2022-2024
  • Co-supervised multiple M.Sc. theses at the University of Padova, 2018-2022

Professional Societies

  • AMS Committee on Radio Frequency Allocations, Member, 2022-2027
  • IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals, Member at Large, 2019-2021, 2022-2024
  • Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE ComSoc. Member of ACM, SigMobile, and the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Patents, Policy, and Standardization

  • AI-RAN Alliance: AI-RAN Working Group 2 (WG2) AI-and-RAN Chair, elected position. Top contributor for the AI-RAN Alliance, leading tasks on architecture and AI/ML workflows.
  • O-RAN ALLIANCE: Editor and rapporteur for the nGRG research item on dApps. Active contributions to Working Groups on use cases and architecture.
  • Co-inventor of three awarded patents and of 19 patent applications in the area of Open RAN systems, digital twins, and beam management.
  • Contributed to several proceedings and requests for comments from the FCC and the NTIA.

Invited Talks and Webinars

  • mmWaves in 5G NR Cellular Networks: a System Level Perspective - talk at the CTTC Weekly Seminar Series, 2018
  • mmWaves in 5G NR Cellular Networks: a System Level Perspective - webinar for the IEEE Future Networks initiative, 2019
  • mmWaves in 5G NR Cellular Networks: a System Level Perspective - talk at Qualcomm, 2019

Outreach

  • Presentation at Building Bridges at Northeastern (semi-annual event to provide high school students with the opportunity to explore Northeastern University’s College of Engineering) https://stem.northeastern.edu/programs/ayp/building-bridges/