Nancy Alonistioti

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Chair of one6G Board & Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)

Title of talk: AI and 6G for Crisis Management autonomous and decision support systems 

Abstract:

Escalating climate- and human-induced hazards demand response systems that sense, decide, and act faster than crises unfold. This talk outlines how AI-native 6G networks enable autonomous and decision-support capabilities for crisis management across land, sea, and air. The talk will address how joint communication-and-sensing, smart connectivity, network slicing and edge intelligence create low-latency perception–action loops that fuse video, IoT, and geospatial data into trustworthy situational awareness. Architecturally, we discuss intent-driven orchestration on the edge–cloud continuum; federated, privacy-preserving analytics; energy-aware operation for battery-limited nodes; and safety mechanisms spanning uncertainty quantification, explainability, and human-in-the-loop oversight. Case studies include wildfire detection and coordination, highlighting autonomous drone swarms, digital-twin sandboxes for “what-if” simulations, and actionable alerts that prioritize resources under constraints. We conclude with open research challenges, assurance and testing of autonomous behaviors, and ethics and governance for high-stakes deployments. Attendees at NextGCom 2025 in Kefalonia will have a clear technology roadmap and research agenda for building resilient, AI-and-6G-powered systems that shorten the time from data to decision to life-saving action.

Short Bio:
Prof. Nancy Alonistioti (female) has a B.Sc. degree and a PhD degree in Informatics and Telecommunications (Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA). She has over 20 years of experience in research and innovation development in new generation networks and services, IoT, AI/ML, SDN/NFV. She has worked in numerous (more than 30) national and European projects undertaking roles in project/technical management. She is currently leading the SCAN group activities in the Dept. Informatics in Univ. of Athens. She has served as Vice Chair of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, as member of the Future Internet Assembly Steering Committee and she is currently Chair of one6G Board and member of the Board of the Greek Open University. She is member of the ETSI Experts group and the Greek standardization group ELOT (5G, smart city, autonomic communications). She has over 150 publications in the area of Federated AI, new generation networks, Internet of Things and vertical applications, SDN/NFV, Future Internet/NGI, cognitive management, autonomic communications and systems (drones, vehicles, robotic devices etc.). She is co-author of 4 WO Patents and has more than 3500 citations in her work.