Organising Committee – Workshop on Flexible and Agile Networks (FlexNets)

Program Committee Chairs
Name	Role	Affiliation	Phone/Email
Rui Aguiar	Co-chair	Campus Universitário de Santiago, Portugal	ruilaa (at ) ua.pt
	Rui L. Aguiar received his degree in telecommunication engineering in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro. He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, responsible for the networking area, and has been previously an adjunct professor at the INI, Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Visiting Research Scholar at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil. He is coordinating a research line nationwide in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on the area of Networks and Multimedia. He is leading the Technological Platform on Connected Communities, a regional cross-disciplinary industry-oriented activity on smart environments. His current research interests are centred on the implementation of advanced wireless networks and systems, with special emphasis on 5G networks and the Future Internet. He has more than 450 published papers in those areas, including standardization contributions to IEEE and IETF. He has served as technical and general chair of several conferences, from IEEE, ACM and IFIP, and is regularly invited for keynotes on 5G and Future Internet networks. He sits on the TPC of all major IEEE ComSoc conferences. He has extensive participation in national and international projects, of which the best example is his position as Chief Architect of the IST Daidalos project, and has extensive participation in industry technology transfer actions. He is currently associated with the 5G PPP Infrastructure Association and is the current Chair of the steering board of the Networld2020 ETP. He is a chartered engineer, senior member of IEEE, Portugal ComSoc Chapter Chair, and a member of ACM. He is associated editor of Wiley’s ETT, Springers’ Wireless Networks and of the recently launched Elsevier’s ICT Express.
Ilker Demirkol	Co-chair	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain	ilker.demirkol (at) entel.upc.edu
	Ilker Demirkol, IEEE Senior Member, is a Research Professor (Ramon y Cajal) in Network Engineering Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, where his research currently has the focus on network algorithmics, 5G transport networks and Internet of Things. He received BSc., MSc., and PhD. degrees in computer engineering from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Over the years, he has worked in a number of research laboratories and corporations in Europe and USA. He has coauthored more than 50 ACM/IEEE journal and conference papers, including the recipient of Best Paper Award in IEEE ICC’13 in AHSN symposium. He is currently a member of the IEEE COMMAG Editorial Board and has been actively participating in IEEE conferences, e.g., as IEEE CCNC’15 Demo Chair and IEEE CCNC’17-GCCN TPC Chair.
Marcelo M. Carvalho	Publicity Chair	University of Brasília, Brazil	mmcarvalho (at) ene.unb.br
	Marcelo M. Carvalho received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) (2006). Previously, he received his M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from both the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) (2003) and the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (1998), and his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) (1995). Currently, he is a Professor Adjunto in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil. Before joining UnB, he was a Professor Adjunto in the Institute of Science and Technology at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil. Marcelo M. Carvalho has served in the program technical committee of many conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE VTC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE Online GreenComm, IEEE Wireless Days, and IEEE IWCMC, among others, and he has served as the General Co-Chair of IEEE MASS 2016 and IEEE CARTOON 2014. His research interests are in wireless networks, mobile computing, and multimedia transmission. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM societies.
M. Yunus Dönmez	TPC co-chair	NETAŞ, Turkey	ydonmez (at) netas.com.tr
	Mehmet Yunus Dönmez received the BS degree in mathematics and the MS and PhD degrees in computer engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999, 2003, and 2011, respectively. He has been currently working as an R&D engineer in NETAS A.S., Istanbul, since 2013. He worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Mathematics, Bogazici University, from 1999 to 2011, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Engineering in the same university, from 2011 to 2013. His research interests include design and analysis of QoS-aware cross-layer algorithms/protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, performance evaluation in computer networks, mission critical wireless sensor networks.
Ertan Onur	TPC co-chair	Middle East Technical University, Turkey	eronur (at) metu.edu.tr
	Ertan Onur received the BSc degree in computer engineering from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 1997, and the MSc and PhD degrees in computer engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2001 and 2007, respectively. After obtaining his PhD degree, he worked as an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. From 2014 on, he is an associate professor at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He was the editor/convenor of the Personal Networks Group of Ecma International Standardization Body. Dr. Onur’s research interests are in the area of computer and wireless networks and their security. He is the founder of the Wireless Systems, Networks and Cybersecurity (WINS) laboratory at METU. Dr. Onur is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Andrea Cattoni	Co-chair	Keysight Technologies	andrea.cattoni (at) keysight.com
	Andrea Cattoni received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. both from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2004 and 2008 respectively. From 2008 to 2015 he was Post Doc first and then Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he investigated wireless technologies and networks ranging from Cognitive Radio Networks, LTE-A, Wi-Fi advances and lately 5G. In January 2016 Andrea joined Keysight Technologies as Research Engineer. His research interests are 5G systems and networks, End-to-end testing methodologies.