Recent & Upcoming Talks

2025

Tackling the climate emergency Scottish Funding Council and Scotland Beyond Net Zero
Knowledge sharing of UK investments around achieving net zero
Sep 30, 2025 Edinburgh, UK
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Tackling the climate emergency Scottish Funding Council and Scotland Beyond Net Zero
AI-Native Networks Standardisation
Invited talk and pannel on standardisation on AI-native telecommunication networks.
Sep 17, 2025 Bologna, Italy
AI-Native Networks Standardisation
4th International Workshop on Autonomous Network Management Systems (ANMS 2025)
Bringing together research and industry working on autonomous networks.
Jul 20, 2025 Glasgow, UK
4th International Workshop on Autonomous Network Management Systems (ANMS 2025)
The Henry Dyer Memorial Event
Celebrating the longstanding relationship between Glasgow and Tokyo through the memory of Henry Dyer
May 30, 2025 Glasgow, UK
The Henry Dyer Memorial Event
AI-Native Approach to Telco
Invited talk on AI-native telecommunication networks by India’s Telecomunnication Engineering Centre.
May 29, 2025 Online || New Delhi, India
AI-Native Approach to Telco
PhD Defence - Thomas Avé
Towards Efficient Decision-Making Policy Compression for Reinforcement Learning on Resource-Constrained Devices
Apr 25, 2025 Antwerp, Belgium
PhD Defence - Thomas Avé
2nd FG-AINN meeting
Progress and overview of the Focus Group on Ai-Native Networks activites.
Apr 14, 2025 — Apr 15, 2025 Istanbul, Turkey
2nd FG-AINN meeting
PhD Defence - Paola Soto
Towards Autonomous Networks: Creating and Orchestrating Intelligence for Next-Generation Network Management
Apr 3, 2025 Antwerp, Belgium
PhD Defence - Paola Soto
Joint UK Republic of Korea Seminar on Standards Ecosystems
Seminar concluding a 12-month Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) joint research initiative on digital standards for AI, quantum and semiconductors
Mar 21, 2025 London, UK
Joint UK Republic of Korea Seminar on Standards Ecosystems

2024

WTSA: Standards in Practice Hackathon
Invited mentor, judge, and speaker for the WTSA ITU Hackathon in Delhi
Sep 8, 2024 — Sep 9, 2024 Delhi, India
WTSA: Standards in Practice Hackathon
Convergence of the Spheres: Autonomous Networks and Their Role in the (Telco) Multiverse
Invited talk at the AI and Machine Learning in Communication Networks Workshop - AI for Good
May 29, 2024 — May 30, 2024 Geneva, Switzerland
Convergence of the Spheres: Autonomous Networks and Their Role in the (Telco) Multiverse
Digital Network Twins for Network Management
Invited pannel member to discusss on the topics of digital twins.
May 9, 2024 Seoul, South Korea
Digital Network Twins for Network Management
3rd International Workshop on Autonomous Network Management Systems (ANMS 2024)
Bringing together research and industry working on autonomous networks.
May 6, 2024 Seoul, South Korea
3rd International Workshop on Autonomous Network Management Systems (ANMS 2024)
3rd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024)
Bringing together research and industry working on digital twins in networks from around the globe.
May 6, 2024 Seoul, South Korea
3rd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024)
Scottish Autonomous Networked Systems Event - Part Deux
Brining together research and industry in Scotland working on autonomous systems.
May 2, 2024 — May 3, 2024 TBD, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Scottish Autonomous Networked Systems Event - Part Deux
TOWARDS AUTONOMOUS 6G NETWORKS: REQUIREMENTS, STANDARDS, AND CHALLENGES
Invited pannel member to discusss on the topics of future requirements, standards, and challenges in achieving autonomous network operation.
Apr 24, 2024 Dubai, UAE
TOWARDS AUTONOMOUS 6G NETWORKS: REQUIREMENTS, STANDARDS, AND CHALLENGES
Digital Twins: A Tool for Fast Failure
Invited talk and discussion session on the role and definition of digitial twins and their relationships to non-terresterial software systems
Mar 11, 2024 Tsukuba Space Center, Tsukuba, Japan
Digital Twins: A Tool for Fast Failure

2022

Scottish Autonomous Networked Systems Event
Brining together research and industry in Scotland working on autonomous systems.
Dec 12, 2022 — Dec 13, 2022 Level 6 Creativity Suite, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow
Scottish Autonomous Networked Systems Event
FG-AN Workshop: 'Advances in Evolutionary Autonomous Networks: Use Cases, Architecture and PoC'
Progress and overview of the Focus Group on Autonomous Networks’ activites.
Nov 15, 2022 1:00 AM — 3:00 AM Geneva, Switzerland
Autonomous Networks Build-a-thon: Fireside Chat
Fireside chat with telco experts and myself exchanging views on the related use cases, architecture and proof of concepts around Autonomous Networks.
Nov 7, 2022 Online
Autonomous Networks Build-a-thon: Fireside Chat
NetworkX: Invited Talk and Pannel Session
Invited talk and pannel session on autonomous networks at the NetworkX industrial conference
Oct 18, 2022 — Oct 21, 2022 Rai, Amsterdam
NetworkX: Invited Talk and Pannel Session
Autonomous Networks - Private or Otherwise
The role of autonomy in private or public networks.
Jul 9, 2022 9:00 AM — 9:40 AM Bangalore, India & Online
Autonomous Networks - Private or Otherwise
Towards evolution-based autonomy in large-scale systems
Presentation of our work in progress of phrasing CDN operation as an evolvable problem.
Jun 27, 2022 12:11 PM — 2:00 PM Online
Towards evolution-based autonomy in large-scale systems
My Research on Autonomous Systems: An overview
Short intro talk to my research on autonomous systems and networks.
Jun 27, 2022 12:11 PM — 2:00 PM 101AB, Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
My Research on Autonomous Systems: An overview
IFIP 2022: 'Herding the FLOQ: Flow Optimised Queueing'
This is the conference presentation about our work on the paper.
Jun 16, 2022 1:55 PM Catania, Italy
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Autonomous Networks: Create, Validate, Apply
Autonomous operation is more than just ML + use case…
Jan 20, 2022 Online
Autonomous Networks: Create, Validate, Apply

2021

The Toothbrush Made Us Do It: The Telco Need for Dynamic Intelligent Runtimes
Data is everywhere, but who makes sure that it gets to where its going?
Sep 30, 2021 online
The Toothbrush Made Us Do It: The Telco Need for Dynamic Intelligent Runtimes
Overview of Glasgow University & Rakuten Mobile Collaboration
This video described the collaboration between Glasgow University & Rakuten Mobile Collaboration, includeing the goals, topics, …
Sep 29, 2021 Online
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Overview of Glasgow University & Rakuten Mobile Collaboration
Research & Opportunities at the Rakuten Mobile Innovation Studio
A breif overview of the research topics and oppertunities avaliable in the Rakten Mobile Innovation Studio?
Sep 27, 2021 online
Research & Opportunities at the Rakuten Mobile Innovation Studio
A Truly Autonomous Collaboration: Evolving with purpose
This talk is about the process of forming the collaboration between Rakuten Mobile and the University of Strathclyde
Jul 8, 2021 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM online
A Truly Autonomous Collaboration: Evolving with purpose
SG13 Technical Tutorial on Autonomous Networks
This talk is about the current progress from the focus group on autonomous networks
Jul 7, 2021 12:00 PM — 2:00 PM online
SG13 Technical Tutorial on Autonomous Networks
Stories From The Edge
This talk is a collection of stories about research projects happening at the edge from an industrial perspective, and where those …
Jun 15, 2021 — Online
Stories From The Edge
Glasgow - Glass Seminar TODO
This talk was based on the work of my intern Krittin on exploring and understanding the use of in-home edge devices and their …
Jun 13, 2021 2:06 PM — 2:06 PM online
Queen's University Edge Hub Launch
As part of the collaboration between the Rakuten Mobile and Queen’s University Belfast, this talk was part of the official …
May 20, 2021 1:55 PM — 1:55 PM Online
Queen's University Edge Hub Launch