Professor, imec - IDLab Ghent - Ghent University (Belgium)

Short Bio:
Adnan Shahid (M’15 - SM’17) received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineeringfrom Sejong University in South Korea in 2015. He is currently a Professor at the Internet Technology and Data Science Lab (IDLab) of Ghent University and imec, where he leads the ‘AI/ML for Wireless’ research within IDLab-iWINe (Intelligent Wireless Networking). He is an active contributor to several working groups, including the IEEE WG - P1900.8 Standard for Training, Testing, and Evaluating Machine-Learned Spectrum Awareness Models, the ATIS WG on Generative AI in Telecom, and the ETIS WG on AI Agent-based Next Generation Core Networks. He has participated in numerous challenging projects, such as the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2), European H2020, 6G SNS, and ESA projects. Dr. Shahid currently leads several European and national projects (imec ICON, FWO). His research interests include wireless physical layer foundation models, decentralized learning, radio resource management, the Internet of Things, 5G/6G networks, localization, and connected healthcare.