Dr. Sinem Coleri is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL) and director of Ford Otosan Automotive Technologies Laboratory. Sinem Coleri received the BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California Berkeley in 2002 and 2005. She worked as a research scientist in Wireless Sensor Networks Berkeley Lab under sponsorship of Pirelli and Telecom Italia from 2006 to 2009. Since September 2009, she has been a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. Her research interests are in 6G wireless communications and networking, AI-based wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, wireless networked control systems and vehicular networks.

Dr. Coleri has more than 150 publications with citations over 13000 (Google scholar profile). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Science Award in 2024; N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022; TUBITAK Incentive Award and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2020; Outstanding Achievement Award by Higher Education Council in 2018; and Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP) Award in 2015.

Dr. Coleri currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief at the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Dr. Coleri is an IEEE Fellow and AAIA Fellow.

Dr. Amira Alloum ; PhD, is Director of Engineering at Qualcomm France, where she leads the European 5G/6G Wireless Research Center. In this role, she drives advanced research in wireless communications, in close collaboration with leading academic institutions and major industrial partners across Europe. The center plays a strategic role in national and European innovation ecosystems, with strong involvement in flagship European 6G research programs.

Amira has also led Qualcomm’s 5G/6G Innovation Platform project in Lannion, a program funded under the France 2030 initiative, which aims to position France at the forefront of next generation mobile networks and to accelerate the industrial adoption of 5G and future 6G technologies.

In parallel, she oversees Qualcomm’s collaboration programs with universities and startups across the EMEA region, while continuing to contribute to academia through postgraduate supervision and lecturing on error correcting code applications for wireless systems.With over two decades of R&D experience spanning network operators, equipment vendors, and semiconductor companies, Amira has made significant contributions to 3GPP 5G standardization, LTE and DVB technologies, as well as to research in post quantum security and advanced receiver architectures for wireless and optical communications.

Beyond her research and industrial activities, Amira is a member of the Scientific Council of the ARCEP Future Networks Committee and has contributed extensively to the IEEE through sustained leadership service, including chairing roles in several technical and organizational committees.

She holds a PhD in Information Theory from Institut Mines Télécom / Télécom Paris and has an extensive publication and student supervision record in collaboration with leading international universities.