Seminar Tunçer Baykaş

Topic: AI/ML and Wireless Telecommunication Standards

You are cordially invited to our upcoming seminar!

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Time: 15:00
Venue: Room A101
Speaker: Dr. Tuncer Baykas
About the Speaker

Dr Tuncer Baykas received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Ottawa, he joined the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, in 2007. During his tenure, he contributed to multiple standardization projects, including IEEE 802.15.3c, IEEE 802.11ad, and IEEE 1900.7. He served as the Chair for IEEE 802.19.1 Task Group. Between 2012 and 2014, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tohoku University, where he contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.15.4k Low Energy Critical Infrastructure Management Standard. Between 2016 and 2019 he represented NICT in the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector, and he was the drafting group Chair of the 1A-3 and 5C-3 groups on WRC-19 agenda item 1.15.

He is currently serving as the Chair of the 802.19 Working Group and the Chair of IEEE 802 Wireless Chairs Standing Committee, corresponding member of the IEEE TAB COS.

Summary
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies has dominated news headlines in recent years. AI/ML techniques have not only achieved significant progress but are also being applied across a wide range of domains, including medical diagnosis, speech recognition, computer vision, and the integration of vision and control in robotics. Furthermore, AI/ML is becoming a key component in many emerging applications such as autonomous driving, language translation, and human–machine interaction.

Particularly AI/ML has begun to make substantial inroads into wireless telecommunications. These developments include applications in jointly trained encoder–decoder architectures and algorithms, as well as in wireless system simulations and radio propagation prediction. In this talk we will review latest developments in telecommunication standards focusing on IEEE 802.11 Local Area Networks. The AIML Standing Committee was established in May 2024 by the IEEE 802.11 Working Group (WG). The AIML SC has been reviewing contributions on a variety of AIML topics that are relevant to IEEE 802.11, including AI Assisted roaming, AI assisted multi-AP coordination, AI assisted MU MIMO feedback compression, and feasibility studies of over the air federated learning. In this seminar we review  AIML SC Technical Report which  provides also a survey of AIML-related activities in other telecommunications standards bodies such as 3GPP and ITU.